Posted on 09/27/2010 1:35:48 PM PDT by Rufus2007
It’s a really skewed view of the relationship between citizens and the government – that anything you earn and get to keep by not paying to the government in the form of taxes is a show of benevolence from the government.
But that’s apparently the view of Richard H. Thaler, professor at the University of Chicago. In the Sept. 26 New York Times, Thaler, declares that tax cuts are a gift in his op-ed “What the Rich Don’t Need.”
“WANT to give affluent households a present worth $700 billion over the next decade?” Thaler wrote. “In a period of high unemployment and fiscal austerity, this idea may seem laughable. Amazingly, though, it is getting traction in Washington. I am referring, of course, to the current debate about whether to extend all, or just some, of the tax cuts of President George W. Bush – cuts that are due to expire at year-end. They’re expiring because the only way they could be enacted initially was by pretending that they were temporary.”
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Obviously this braindead idiot has never looked at a pay stub.
There is a BIG differrence in Gross=what you EARN, and NET=AFTER TAXES.
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Which further reinforces the view that ALL MONEY BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT. You are simply ALLOWED to KEEP a PORTION............
So what are they going to do if the so-called “rich” up and move rather than be subject to this crap?
Thayler is probably someone who doesn’t leave home without a couple hundred dollars in “mugging money” for when a poor, oppressed member of the underclass asks him for a “contribution” at the business end of a knife or gun.
This man has been living in an Ivory Tower too long. Dude, you need to feel what it’s like to work for a living.
This class warfare crap has been going on a long time. What these leftists fail to grasp is that we still are a agile society where one day someone could be rich and the next day the other guy could be on his way down, the two instances non related. The ‘Progressives’ believe that your money makes the other guy poor. (I heard Bill Maher tell PJ O’Roarke the exact same thing.)
The trick the ‘progressives’ don’t seem to master is how to get the money from the ‘rich’. The ‘Rich’ did not become wealthy by standing still like sheep to be shorn.
There’s a long history of case law of tax avoidance in this nation.
The standard leftist view that everything belongs to Big Brother and anything we members of the underclasses are permitted to KEEP must be a gift from our most munificent and gracious Lords.
The concept of being an individual human being with rights to ownership and liberty and self-determination is frightening to these people.
Fall on your knees and thank your overlords for their benevolence!!
Nice of him to out himself.
Well, well, looks like these Commie-economistas hang together....and I hope they will hang together soon.
Cass & Dicky sitting in a tree:
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
“Easy Does It.” Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein; New Republic, 2008, 238(6), pp. 20-22.
I totally agree! What I have a hard time grasping is how seemingly educated people convinced themselves that this actually makes sense.
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