"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."


Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Progressive Taxation

It is one thing to say, as most progressives do, that the wealthy should pay an increased proportion of income in taxes.

The problem most Americans have with this, wealthy or not, is that such a progressive taxation scheme entails the always revenue-hungry federal government deciding who is wealthy and who is not.

To most, this is an entirely discomfiting notion, and it should be.

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