I saw someone on C SPAN yesterday morning - my TIVO is out for repair but I wish I could have tivo’d it.
I think his name was Grover Nyquist and he headed a tax reform agency. He was answering questions on how taxes are destroying the economy. He took a question from a black journalist about Obama.
He said he didn’t think “Obama had thought out the consequences” of his policies. He said basically Obama was going to tax small businesses at the rate of about 55%. He also said Obama was going to take a billion dollar sledgehammer to the economy if he did what he said he was going to do.
My son just paid his first small business tax - he says now he wants to go out and get a regular job. His brother earned three times as much and paid half the tax. And that was only 15%.
Most people believe that the high cost of living, and spiraling costs everywhere is due to greed or the "cost of doing business." They could not be more mistaken.
It is to cost of paying taxes at all levels, permit fees, and a huge, faceless, unresponsive bureaucracy.
Incompetent? That's putting a human face on it. "Criminal" is more accurate. And it's not going away any time soon.