Taxes and Spending

Just before Christmas I received the following from Joe Fullmer, and submit it to readers for their

Trick names of this sort corrupt the language and confuse thought. It would hardly clarify matters to call a handout a 'negative deprivation' or having your pocket picked 'receiving a negative gift.

Meanwhile, the taxpayers have no choice but to contribute toward these eternal reforms.

From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.

From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.

The BBC website reports here that the U.S.

The income tax should be repealed, not replaced. The IRS should be gotten rid of, not renamed. Tax reform should reduce taxes, not be revenue neutral. Government theft of the wealth of its citizens should be abolished, not adjusted. The FairTax should be called the Fraudulent Tax.

Expect every government program to fail to achieve its stated aims – domestic and foreign – and you will hit the mark every time.

Let's settle the scores; the politicians and bureaucrats win since they claim success based on programs implemented, the children lose due to additional years in state institutions, the teachers and their unions win as more money is pumped into the sinking barge, and the taxpayer — William Graham Sumner's forgotten man — continues to pay the bill year after year.

A smarter and more resolute government would not fritter away scores of billions of dollars annually on producing, deploying, and maintaining an array of weapons systems fit only for fighting a USSR that no longer exists.