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The most-viewed post in the history of this blog is the “riding in the wagon” cartoon, but the post that has received the highest number of star-ratings is my video on class warfare.
I hope that means people share my concerns about the destructive and punitive mentality of so many of the kleptocrats in Washington.
Speaking of which, I debated one of those people on Bloomberg TV.
We got a decent amount of time, so a lot of topics were discussed. Here are the ones that merit a comment or two.
- Stealing all the income of the rich wouldn’t be enough to finance big government, though I should have used the three-month figure Mattie Duppler shared in her video indictment of Obama’s tax policy.
- There should be a cap so that nobody has to pay more than 25 percent of their income to government. I actually think that’s far too high, but polling data shows that this is a good way of framing the issue.
- Our fiscal problem is an excessive burden of government spending.
- Entitlement reform must be part of the answer.
- My opponent says higher taxes are patriotic, so I guess he belongs in the same category as Joe Biden and Francois Hollande. I guess we’ll call them the Three Stooges of statism.
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Daniel J. Mitchell is a top expert on tax reform and supply-side tax policy at the Cato Institute.
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