Conversations: Talking To Liberals About Taxes

	We need to improve public health by raising taxes on cigarettes and fatty foods.
	So you think raising taxes on these behavors will discourage them and cause people to pursue other activities?
	Yes I do.
	Do you also support raising taxes on capital gains and corporate profits?
	Certainly.
	And you don't think that will discourage savings, investment and job creation?
	Well... that's different, because it's about fairness.
	So people getting laid off and/or not being able to find a job is something you support as long as the byproduct of their misery is that it allowed you the satisfaction of poking someone wealthier than you in the eye?
	...pretty much.
	And you don't care about the suffering of those who lost their jobs,their homes, or even their family?
	Oh no, I do care. That's why I voted for the candidate who supports increased spending on food assistance, public housing, drug rehabilitation, suicide prevention and extended unemployment benefits. :)

Comments

[David]

A very nice contemporary restatement of Margaret Thatcher's summation of the socialist policies that are OK with the poor being poorer as long as the rich are less rich.

[Woody]

I was not familiar with her speech. I'll have to look that up. Wish we had someone like her running in our primaries today.