re: #335 barflytom

I think you and I would disagree hugely on what that portion should be.

If someone can call tax cuts “spending”, what does that say about them ?
The implication there is that the money is the government’s in the first place, and that they are “spending” it by graciously allowing someone to keep a bit more of their ill-gotten gains.

The implication is that if we don’t levy taxes, it all falls apart. The whole thing. And if it falls apart, wealth in the monetary sense is meaningless. The implication is that wealth cannot be acquired at all without the institutions that allow for sufficient stability to accumulate it, and that those that benefit disproportionately, should pay a larger portion of that which they make than those who are just getting by.

In conservative parlance, it is common sense. In liberal parlance, it is social justice. In human terms, it is compassion, and gratitude.

That’s right motherfucker. Gratitude.