Sep 28

Written by: Steve Erbach
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:53 AM

Should the wealthy pay a higher percentage in taxes?

(published 3-Oct-2011, Appleton Post-Crescent online)

That's a cart-before-the-horse question.  Yes, it's true: I don't care about the poor and the less fortunate.  All I care about is that my rich buddies get to keep all the money...which is really the government's money, right?  "From each according to his ability", right?  Nope.  I don't buy it.  The real question is: Should the government overspend as much as it does?  Answer?  Heck, no!  If you accept that the government can spend like a drunken sailor then we have no common ground.  You accept as a necessary corollary that the government can tax as much as it wants to try to cover at least a portion of what it overspends.  Go ahead and tax the wealthy all you want.  See where it gets you if the government makes no changes to its monstrously gross overspending...which it won't.  How can it?  There are Congresscritters to be re-elected!

[This long series of "Recent Commentary" posts is from the Appleton Post-Crescent weekly Reader Reaction Forum feature.  Each submission can be no longer than 150 words.  Any comments to RRF postings on-line can be no longer than 2000 characters.  That explains some of the terseness of expression and cramming to fit. - Ed.]

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