12.16.07
Unlimited Taxation
Some choice words from “Unlimited Taxation“, which comments on California legislators’ idea to fix the deficit by making it harder for California citizens to make ends meet.
Only government has the luxury of increasing its income at will, whenever its spending exceeds its income. Too bad the taxpayers can’t do the same. As George Will once said, “…in the lexicon of the political class, the word ’sacrifice’ means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.”
Being generous with other people’s money, for your own political benefit, isn’t altruism. It’s theft.
How often do we think of it that way?
