Higher Taxes!

It’s the patriotic thing to do.

Seriously, Senator Biden? Granted, it’s sort of a throwback to JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country” theme. But I’d like to think I can offer the country more than my wallet.

I think Thomas Paine has a good perspective on this.

If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.

From The Rights of Man.