Moron of the Month: Taxes Made This Country Great
As it turns out, today’s “Moron of the Month” honoree is right in my own backyard — nearly. This afternoon I got an email from my mother, who pointed me to a column in our local paper, the Lansing State Journal, containing a piece of, as mom put it, “weapons grade stupidity” written by one Cheryl Bartz. This person has such a poor grip on economics that her hands must be smeared with Crisco.
Keep in mind that Michigan’s taxes have driven business from the state so much that for a time it looked like the white collar equivalent of the evacuation of Dunkirk. Fortunately, that’s calmed down now, as there’s hardly any business left in the state to leave.
With that said, here’s a snip from the setup and a bit from the conclusion of the column that contains not even enough brain power to run a potato clock:
When I left the Peace Corps in 1991, I traveled by bus through Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. After my odyssey through Central America, I came up with the definitive answer to the question, “What’s the difference between a Third-World country and a First-World one?”
Taxes…
…I think the income tax is what made America great. Taxes give all of us things we can’t buy as individuals. Cutting services rather than raising taxes is a sure way to whittle our state down to Third-World status. And yes, businesses should be taxed, too. They benefit from all the services that make our homeland secure.
I encourage the Michigan Legislature to demonstrate leadership by levying enough taxes to keep Michigan a First-World state.
Good Lord, what a vacuous, Nerf-brained, and unfortunately, all-too-common mindset. What’s sad is that this could have been written by Michigan’s governor.
Frankly, I can’t stop laughing at the woman who is apparently the Gilligan of Liberal Island.
Taxes make a country great? Well, then we’ll just go to a dirt poor starving and miserable country and levy huge taxes. Problem solved, bellies full, people housed and healthy. Nirvana! Oh, wait…
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May 7th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Are you aware that Michigan is advertising on the radio in other states about their “business-friendly” climate? I hear them every day here in Alabama. Too bad I can’t move to your “tax Nirvana”.
May 7th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Well she’s half right I guess, but one step away from it. It’s not taxes it’s profit. Yes, the profit of enterprize, whether extracted under threat as taxes or spent voluntarily. What the little girly missed seeing in her travels is people who could sell at a profit then have profit to use as they saw fit. It was profit that built every great state, and every great family. It’s profit, money filthy lucre that allows one to trade symbols of power for items or services of need or desire. One needs to have surplus before redistribution takes place, at least happily all round. The little butterbrains feels that taxes are the thing because it is her betters and protectors in gov’t that are good. She avoids the more fundamental ‘profit’ because profit is evil in her world view, produced by plutocrats and conservatives and spent selfishly to destroy rainbows and smiles. That one be so deluded into thinking extorted largess often spent wastefully is somehow better than profit speaks to why things are going as they are, and why ever increasing numbers are looking for their share of the largess and doing less to provide the profits and surpluses that make it possible.
We can’t possibly be overdrawn, why, there are still checks in the checkbook…!