We Want a Simplified Tax Code That Fits on a Restaurant Place-Mat... - Granite Grok

We Want a Simplified Tax Code That Fits on a Restaurant Place-Mat…

I stumbled across an old issue of National Review, March 2013, in which James Lileks writes about ‘Retail Politics.’  I won’t revisit the article except to share the Democrat dictionary -tax cutclosing remarks, which take a very realistic look at the politics of the tax code.

“We want a simplified tax code that fits on a restaurant place-mat, understood by all, stripped of gimmicks, a pellucid statement of equality under the law.

“But no.  It’s better to have a government that takes 50 percent from the 1 percent and 43 percent from the 5 percent and gives 43 percent of that to the 20 percent and spends 75 percent on 35 percent of the debt which is 100 percent of the GDP, because 47 percent of the customer base will give you 51 percent of the votes to take 4 percent more away from the 10 percent of the people you don’t like…”

 

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