Sat Oct 29, 2011
An alert student made a lengthy post about the French Revolution. Indeed it was quite different from the American Revolution. The object of American scorn, King George, was safely tucked away across the Atlantic Ocean. The French Royalty on the other hand were uncomfortably close to their citizens. Yet the class differences were even greater in France. It seems doubtful Americans would have severed the heads of British Royalty, indeed I know of no instance of use of the guillotine in America.
And as he notes, the French wanted equality, Americans wanted Liberty-big difference.
Now we have an Administration which has granted 47% freedom from income taxes.Which is to say, if you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can bet on Paul's support. The question the 53% are posing is this
is it fair for 47% to pay nothing?
The strategy should be clear. If one party can get a majority of voters paying nothing, there will be nothing to prevent them from infinitely robbing the rest of the taxpayers until there is nothing left. Welcome to the Planned Economy.
Actually the question should not be how our taxes are structured. It should be an attempt to reign in Congressional spending which is merely vote buying. If as Tom Sowell has suggested, Congress was limited to spending 10% of the Gross Domestic Product, we would have a much simpler tax code. Letting Congress spend all it wants for various election schemes is the problem.