by Schmuto » Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:44:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')his is an impassioned Joe the Plumber trickle-down argument but the fact is, people are going to pay taxes. You can shift the burden around, but somebody's gonna pay and whoever does pay is gonna whine. Too Fn bad.
Classic Mos the Marxist!
Mos I know you. You've got 100k saved up. You work in a cube farm somewhere making 40 or 60k a year. You're bitter.
And you can't stand the fact that some guy has outworked you his entire life.
Even more than that, you can't stand that he has more than you because of it.
That's the selling point of Marxism - you sell to people who buy the whole "suppression by the wealthy" spiel because it's much easier than having to swallow that you've underachieved your whole life and the guy who runs the company is blowing your doors off.
Anybody who reads this article and thinks, "tough!" really is the exact opposite kind of person than me.
I run my own business so I know exactly what the story is portraying - I lived it.
And now I pay 35% in Federal income taxes, about 5% in state taxes, and, once you put all the other local taxes on top of it, almost 1 out of every 2 dollars I make is going to the black hole of government spending.
But before I go too far on that rant digression, let me point out the HUGE error in Mos' Marxist thinking:
Mos takes it as
a given that taxes
must
be paid. That is, Mos doesn't even let the light of day hit the notion that -
perhaps we can simply reduce government expenditures.
You see?
That's the disease of socialism - you get poisoned when you're young into thinking, "well, we've all
got to pay our taxes. That's the way it is."
Meanwhile, day by day, the monstrous, inefficient pig know as the Government gets bigger.
In 1912, your total income tax burden would have been - - - 0 dollars.
That's right.
Zero.
Can you even imagine it?
So when you hear Marxist apologists like Mos spit their bitter hatred for successful businesspeople, remember his basic principle . . .
He LOVES bigger government - not only does it give him stuff for which he doesn't have to work, it also taxes people like me at a 50% rate, thereby transferring my hard work to him and restraining me from getting too far out ahead of Mos at the same time.
What a great thread.