Call me naive for only just now figuring this out, but my epiphany d'jour was why the vast crowd of Democrat politicians favor increasing taxes. They don't plan to pay them anyway. They plan for YOU to pay.First we hear that Geitner had a fast and loose attitude towards paying HIS fair share of the burden. Then we hear that Kellefer has withdrawn her name for "Oversight Czar" because of unpaid taxes. Now we hear that Sen. Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name for a cabinet post because of unpaid taxes.
We're not just talking a few hundred dollars due to a math error. No, these were all major omissions worth hundreds of thousands. And these are the people Obama thought would be "good" ones. Heaven only knows what really shifty sorts they vetted out.
All this time, the Obama administration has been trying to warm up the old "everyone must sacrifice for the greater good" speeches. They can't reduce spending, so the only option is to raise everyone's taxes. Aye, there's the rub. Not everyone's. You and me, for sure. The folks who are pitching this bit of communal bullet biting are, however, of the mindset that THEY don't have to pay such things.
Perhaps we DO need a flat tax. The place to start might be any and all legislators. Before we talk of all having to share the load, let's make sure it includes ALL of us.
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