China knows where to send the Henderson’s of the world…reeducation!
Some call Todd Henderson’s blog posting (update: the posting has been removed, likely to give Mr. Henderson’s life back) about the impact of the expected tax rise in January a “whine”. I call it a plea.
If our taxes rise significantly, as they seem likely to, we can cut back on some things. The (legal) immigrant from Mexico who owns the lawn service we employ will suffer, as will the (legal) immigrant from Poland who cleans our house a few times a month. We can cancel our cell phones and some cable channels, as well as take our daughter from her art class at the community art center, but these are only a few hundred dollars per month in total.
There are two basic questions at the core of his plea. The first, an economic one, is can Todd Henderson and his family, and tens of millions of others like him, make more productive investment decisions about their money than the various governments and bureaucracies that stick their hands into his wallet? This is transparently an OBVIOUS yes.
The second question is where most of the commenters about his post head… is it right for someone in the top 2% of income earners of the country to complain about paying more than his fair share of taxes? To me this is an obvious YES as well. It isn’t obvious to me that it is right for one person to pay more for government than another.
That there are so many American’s that fundamentally view Todd Henderson’s output as their own to take should frighten. That they are now in charge of the government should make you cower.
I can’t think of a government worth taking more than 10 to 15% of someone’s yearly product. I believe we can fully fund a well functioning government that provides for the defense and common good at that rate or less. The excess is bad investment that is killing our economic future as well as liberty.
September 21st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
[...] me, I’ll take it from those I hire. Instead he went on about the cost of nice things. I called it a plea, and it was, but it also was a poorly worded notice of intent where the plea was the less critical [...]
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