Posted on 06/22/2012 12:47:33 AM PDT by Daffynition
When it comes to tax reform heroes, Warren Buffett, that self-made billionaire who pushes for higher taxes on millionaires, is so yesterday. The new champion of the progressive tax movement is a bit more mythical, a touch less law-abiding and frightfully more fashionable.
Robin Hood, the fictional outlaw famous for stealing from the rich to give to the poor, has emerged as the face of a new tax movement, one that calls for a 50 cent sales tax on every $100 traded on Wall Street.
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Robin Hood was against taxes. That’s why he went to live in Sherwood forest.
Also he wore lincoln green. How apt that these modern day ‘hoods’ are wearing red.
What is even more “yesterday” is a mob of resurrected Occupiers who nobody would notice if ABC News employed newsmen instead of wannabe social engineers.
“I’m after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men’s minds, we will not have a decent world to live in.”
“What man?”
“Robin Hood.”
“He was the man who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I’m the man who robs from the poor and gives to the rich – or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich.”
“This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness. It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does….Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive.” – Ragnar Danneskjold
But Robin Hood revolted against government. The Government which confiscated his property. The Sheriff of Nottingham was an agent of the government. The tax raisers need a new icon.
But Robin Hood revolted against government. The Government which confiscated his property. The Sheriff of Nottingham was an agent of the government. The tax raisers need a new icon.
But the rich that Robin Hood robbed were those government bureaucrats and politicians who became rich by confiscating through taxation everything the peasants produced.
Liberals who believe that the rich only become rich because they steal everything from the poor *do* remember the Robin Hood legend—they don’t understand it.
Thanks for posting that. I was going to go find that passage to post as soon as I began reading this thread.
Thanks very much. I had forgotten Ragnar as a member of the foursome.
In keeping with his class warfare theme...encouraging a *rich/poor nation* narrative, Pres. Hussein Kardashian is casting himself as anti-Robin Hood. Fits.
I'll bet Zer0 will find Robin is an ancestor on his mother's side and will incorporate him in Zer0's next autobiography.
'Luckily my mother's family had preserved many of Granpa Robin's, that's what we called him, writings and she would read them to me at night instead of nursery tales.'
'The papers were old delicate papyrus and she was very careful not to handle them without gloves'
'I made up my mind at a young age to follow in his footsteps.'
'This was a decision I wrestled with for many formative years as my father's side were direct descendants of the Egyptian Pharaohs'.
'I often wondered what Uncle Tut would think of my decision'.
I see they are wearing communist red, BTW, Mr Hood stole from the TAX COLLECTOR not the rich.
I will Tebow.
Now did that happen? Lol Last commemt posted on wrong thread.
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