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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 4:02pmSanction this postReply
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It is striking to me how socialists are claiming to be champions of tax cuts in their efforts to fight conservatives. You wouldn't think that tax cuts would be so important to socialists, at least not as important as it is to conservatives and, especially, libertarians.

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Monday, February 25, 2013 - 2:18pmSanction this postReply
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Of course, clear thinking reveals the socialists/fascists to be hypocrites. They want to appear to be for lower taxes, but not to actually be so. 

An example is the clever, rachet-effect employed by our current administration: first a wealth tax, then a so-called "tax reform" that gets rid of loopholes for the wealthy, then a carbon tax, then a middle-class tax, then a poor tax (unless the poor make up 51% of the voting population, in which case they will never be explicitly taxed in a manner that is visible to them). What's left out of the discussion is the fact that even a 100% tax (total communism) would not be enough to fund the authoritarian ambitions of the current administration.

Ed


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