Leftists discover shit falls down when you drop it
Other discoveries include fire is hot and unpleasant to touch, looking into the sun hurts your eyes, and higher tax rates on the rich actually decrease tax revenue. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
Who would have thought? The same crony capitalists who pull all the strings, who work in and with the government, who donate disproportionately to protectionist, tax-raising, regulating busy body candidates, will find ways to keep their dough despite the populist charades of Obama and others in government, and the more they stand to lose the more numerous and ingenious the options to skirt the system become.
All that is required to dismantle state socialist arguments is to carry them to their logical conclusions and watch as they implode under the weight of their own inanity. If it's preferable to tax the rich at 40% than 20%, why is 50 not better than 40? Why is 60 not better than 50? Nothing fundamentally changes along those increments until the argument can be made that a subsequent marginal increase would push the taxpayer below an "average" standard of living, whatever income point our supposed representatives have deemed to be unconscionable to levy a further tax burden. A $500k earner could easily absorb a 75% tax rate. The reason why you rarely hear calls for this is because the fundamental flaw behind the entire system becomes increasingly difficult to obscure as it is carried toward its logical conclusion. Yes, we're all aware that outside a land called Honnalee, people don't get multiple degrees and bust their tails in medicine, law etc. only to magnanimously forfeit half or more of their earnings. We're all aware that the welfare state disincentivizes social mobility. We're aware that we're not living in the 19th century when the US and UK were the only regions not building mud huts and rubbing sticks together, and that expatriation is an incredibly viable 21st century option. Perhaps, though, it takes the degree of insanity we are approaching in order for people to realize the "cream doesn't rise to the top" in politics. No matter how much one despises wealth disparity and the rich, selfish megalomaniacs in big business, the solution has not been and will forevermore not be to attempt to harness the power of a government (Boromir's allegorical One Ring) composed of rich, selfish megalomaniacs to redress one's grievances. It's a losing proposition historically, but more importantly, logically.
Who would have thought? The same crony capitalists who pull all the strings, who work in and with the government, who donate disproportionately to protectionist, tax-raising, regulating busy body candidates, will find ways to keep their dough despite the populist charades of Obama and others in government, and the more they stand to lose the more numerous and ingenious the options to skirt the system become.
All that is required to dismantle state socialist arguments is to carry them to their logical conclusions and watch as they implode under the weight of their own inanity. If it's preferable to tax the rich at 40% than 20%, why is 50 not better than 40? Why is 60 not better than 50? Nothing fundamentally changes along those increments until the argument can be made that a subsequent marginal increase would push the taxpayer below an "average" standard of living, whatever income point our supposed representatives have deemed to be unconscionable to levy a further tax burden. A $500k earner could easily absorb a 75% tax rate. The reason why you rarely hear calls for this is because the fundamental flaw behind the entire system becomes increasingly difficult to obscure as it is carried toward its logical conclusion. Yes, we're all aware that outside a land called Honnalee, people don't get multiple degrees and bust their tails in medicine, law etc. only to magnanimously forfeit half or more of their earnings. We're all aware that the welfare state disincentivizes social mobility. We're aware that we're not living in the 19th century when the US and UK were the only regions not building mud huts and rubbing sticks together, and that expatriation is an incredibly viable 21st century option. Perhaps, though, it takes the degree of insanity we are approaching in order for people to realize the "cream doesn't rise to the top" in politics. No matter how much one despises wealth disparity and the rich, selfish megalomaniacs in big business, the solution has not been and will forevermore not be to attempt to harness the power of a government (Boromir's allegorical One Ring) composed of rich, selfish megalomaniacs to redress one's grievances. It's a losing proposition historically, but more importantly, logically.