Comments on: More False Arguments For Taxing The Rich https://barelyablog.com/more-false-arguments-for-taxing-the-rich/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/more-false-arguments-for-taxing-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-13604 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:46:27 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31908#comment-13604 “The rich” as defined by liberal thinkers come in at a lot less per annum than 20 million bucks. Also so many of “the rich” only look rich because their businesses show up as personal income. Even forgetting these arguments where does the government or their masses huddled on Uncle Sam’s welfare plantations get off with the idea that they deserve someone else’s money?

]]> By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/more-false-arguments-for-taxing-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-13584 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:56:52 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31908#comment-13584 Whether one steals from the rich or poor is unimportant, theft is theft.

]]> By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/more-false-arguments-for-taxing-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-13569 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:13:50 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31908#comment-13569 The old Russell Long adage “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax the guy behind the tree” has been operating for years – but it is our children “hiding behind the tree”! It is called the DEFICIT.

Just as the virus is the source of evil and the temperature (fever) is the symptom – the tax is the symptom of the problem but the evil is the SPENDING.

In my old age, I’ve endeavored to resist getting sucked into these idiot debates on sales tax vs. income tax; progressive vs. flat; withholding tax vs. employee paying – not because I cannot “play” that game – but because it distracts from focusing on the STATIST BEAST.

Government has NO legitimacy spending money on anything that does not (1) apply to the general benefit of all vs. a select few [the origin of the phrase “general welfare”] and (2) protect our lives, liberties, and PROPERTY. Any other spending is immoral theft. Whether the illicit theft gets sucked from the rich or from the poor, from corporations or individuals, from the living or the dead or generations unborn- is a secondary consideration. We are, sadly, feeding the cancer that will devour us.

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