[DiogenesLamp]

I do not see the logic in that comment, which seems to cartwheel from the Confederate cause to a gripe about federal transfer payments today.

I'm pointing out that everybody loves slaves, so long as they are the beneficiaries of the money produced by the slaves.

Taxation is fractional slavery. 100% taxation is 100% slavery. 50% taxation is 50% slavery.

I say we all have a responsibility to carry some load for the benefit of the general public, but I have long stated a reasonable amount of that load is 10%.

[Rockingham]

I am an old school Republican, with Polish ancestry, which arguably makes me of "White Negro" stock. (See Dessalines' inaugural speech as Haiti's first president, and the role of Polish mercenaries who went over to the side of the rebellious slaves). Like most people, I hate slavery as demeaning to slaves and subversive to its supposed beneficiaries.

Calling taxation slavery is best thought of a metaphor rather than as a line of analysis. Laffer, Mundell, and other supply side economists usually put the most productive level of income taxation at 19 or 20 per cent. User fees that pay running costs and amortized construction costs are not thought of as taxes but as enterprise costs.

[Rockingham]

I am an old school Republican, with Polish ancestry, which arguably makes me of "White Negro" stock. (See Dessalines' inaugural speech as Haiti's first president, and the role of Polish mercenaries who went over to the side of the rebellious slaves). Like most people, I hate slavery as demeaning to slaves and subversive to its supposed beneficiaries.

Calling taxation slavery is best thought of a metaphor rather than as a line of analysis. Laffer, Mundell, and other supply side economists usually put the most productive level of income taxation at 19 or 20 per cent. User fees that pay running costs and amortized construction costs are not thought of as taxes but as enterprise costs.