Saturday, October 25, 2008

Taxation isn't just "Oreo Cookies"

From today's _San Jose Mercury News_ letters section:

Rich Nielsen wrote:

In case any of your readers don't quite understand what Sen. Barack Obama's "income redistribution" amounts to, here is an analogy. You study real hard and get an A in class. Some other student skips class, hardly studies and gets a D. The professor decides that there is too great a disparity between the grades in the class, so he lowers your A to a B- and raises the D to a C+ to help even things out.

Sound fair to anyone?

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There seems to be a great missunderstanding of the difference between "Equal Opportunity" and "Equal Results". The first is the American Ideal, the second seems to be the new way to measure progress on the first.


Results also include a component of "Effort and Ability".

Tax me too much and I'll stop working. That will reduce my taxes and sink everyone's boat.

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