[zeugma]

Those who wanted to insert a prohibition, right in the 16th Amendment, on the tax’s exceeding 10% were laughed to scorn. It would never, never, NEVER get that high!!! How dare you even SUGGEST that anyone would propose a 10% tax????? It was 70% just several years later.

Absolutely agreed. Not inserting the rate in the amendment was a major cause of a lot of our problems. Should have set it at a 10% max. Why 10%? Because God only asks for 10, and the government doesn't deserve more than God.

[Arthur McGowan]

Nobody is talking about raising the income tax above one percent!!! How dare you suggest that anyone would want to raise the income tax to ten percent?

I think it was Kevin D. Williamson in NR recently, who did a whole article on:

“Nobody is talking about...”

“How dare you?”

As in, “Nobody is talking about gay marriage!” and “How dare you compare gay marriage to polygamy?”

After all, nobody is talking about polygamy! Just as nobody was talking about gay marriage five years ago.

That one-two punch has been around a long time.