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Overnight Open Thread (2-18-2014)Aurora Alert! Residents of MN, WI, ND, MI, VT, ME, AK and southern Canada (where skies are clear) are enjoying a great northern lights display as of 11PM local time. Go outside and look up!-CAC Because stomach unhappy tonight's grumpiness factor is 4 - you have been warned. Liberals Support Higher Taxes to Punish the Rich Rather Than Bring in Revenue Okay this is from the UK but I have little doubt that a poll of liberals in the US would get similar results. Envy and spite over perceived injustice drive a lot of human behavior and hence a lot of politics. Sixty-nine per cent of Labour supporters would want a top rate tax of 50 per cent even if it brought in no money. In her last Commons appearance as prime minister, Margaret Thostaer was asked by Simon Hughes whether she was proud of the fact that, for all her undoubted successes, inequality had widened during her eleven years in office. She replied magisterially:And Charles Crooke of NRO points out that the left loves progressive taxation but finds the idea of progressive representation utterly reprehensible. And it's not as if the idea of progressive taxation itself is based on any logical or moral foundation. But Mr. Perkins here has only taken a step that progressives took a few generations ago, when they embraced escalating rates of taxation as a foundation for economic justice, and applied it to a different problem. If our political liabilities - taxes - should be as a matter of justice proportional to our income, then why shouldn't our political input be likewise proportionate? Why should proportionality be the rule in one context and not the other? The leap from "No taxation without representation" to "proportional taxation with proportional representation" is not a very dramatic one. But Mr. Perkins has been received as though he were the offspring of Marie Antoinette and an unreconstructed Ebenezer Scrooge. The case for an income tax that is proportional is far from obvious, and the case for one that is progressive even less so. The principle of equality under the law suggests, to my mind at least, that every man's standing in relation to the state should be the same as every other man's, regardless of his wealth or income. So why should somebody pay 20 times or 50 times or 10,000 times the taxes that another man pays? ...The usual answer given to that question is "the rich can afford to pay more." That is true, but it is not a principled reason. A rich man could afford to pay more for a Big Mac or a Honda Civic, too, but we do not expect him to do so. Another popular explanation is: Paying the same rate as everybody else would be too hard on the poor man. True, but that is an argument for lower taxes, not for progressive taxation.
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Daily Doonesbury Going on Hiatus Wait - Doonesbury was still being published? I think it's been years since I've seen an actual on-paper Doonesbury comic and even longer since I gave it more than half a second's thought. To Trudeau's credit he did have Kerry's number from day one. And the comments from Stephen Green's site are pretty funny: I recall one Doonesbury strip, circa 1980, lampooning Teddy Kennedy's bloviating style, which ends with a reporter shouting "A verb, Senator! We need a verb!" The reason you did not know that Doonesbury was still running is because it is printed in something called a newspaper. How Sid Caesar Learned How To Double-Talk Despite sounding like a fluent polyglot he could only speak English. FilmDrunk Law Review: Breaking Down 'My Cousin Vinny' Please, no talking during this column and turn off your cell phones! Candidates For Worst Neighbors Ever Because a retiree neighbor had a 12 inch right-of-way on their property which they thought might hurt its sale price, the couple began a campaign of assault and harassment and even attempted to have her placed into a mental asylum. A banker and his wife waged a 'sinister and devious' campaign of harassment against a vulnerable neighbour to try to increase the sale value of their home, a court heard yesterday. How Not to Die: 20 Survival Tips Okay some of these seem rather specific and may not apply to everyone. 2. Don't Mess with Vending Machines. Boy Genius or Future Scandi Super-Villain? It's hard to say at this point but I have to give the kid points for gumption and quick thinking. And he would have pulled it off if it weren't for that meddling snow plow driver. And the damned snow. A ten-year-old Norwegian boy who drove his parents' car into a snowy ditch offered an inventive excuse to police: he was a dwarf who had forgotten his driver's license. How NBC Snuck a Starbucks into Sochi Because having to drink McDonald's coffee like the hoi polloi is so gauche. The AoSHQ group. Yeah. Teh Tweet! Tonight's post brought to you by choose your own adventure: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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