Oleg Volk ([info]olegvolk) wrote,
@ 2007-05-04 10:20:00
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Well-written argument by Marko (as usual)
http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-subject-of-taxes.html

Ironically, Marko and I being immigrants, we did actually explicitly agree to the taxation. Natives of the US have not.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-04 08:30 pm UTC (link)
The majority of Americans cannot wrap their minds around such a simple concept as this.

I often refer to the "shoe argument". I think I heard it from Walter E. Williams, but I don't recall for sure. When someone tells me "we wouldn't have any "x" unless government "provided" it through taxation (a massive assumption with no supporting evidence), I reply as follows: Say we had government supplied shoes. You'd now be telling me that no one would ever have any shoes unless we were taxed to pay government officials, who are the only ones who know how to provide shoes (because under this scenario, they'd be the only ones having them made)hence, getting the government out of the shoe business would mean, ipso facto, that everyone would go barefoot.

That is the pro-coercion, pro-government argument-- that we're all to damned stupid and lack the resourcefulness to make or buy our own shoes.

Yet in reality, government does not "provide" shoes, and we have a tremendous selection of extremely well-made shoes at extremely low prices. In reality, some of those providing said good shoes at said low prices are attacked (Wal Mart) by the same Leftists who say (by allegory) that shoes are impossible without government.

The Left also refuses to recognize the existence of charities, presumably because they've never given to one. Yet in reality (that is to say, outside the perception capacity of the Left) Americans give away more money as individuals than most countries’ entire economies.

That my house might burn down if I elect not to give to the fire house is assuming (again, a Leftist assumption that people are terrible creatures) that none of my neighbors, and no one working for the fire house, would step in and lift a finger, but just watch my house burn. It also assumes that my insurance company would have no say in anything or anyone they agree to insure. It also assumes that few people would donate to the fire house, when in fact we know well that it is otherwise. It also fails to acknowledge the existence of volunteer firemen, yet there they are. Can you see them? I know some of them, and I assure you that they exist.

I also know a volunteer school teacher. Believe it? He's one of the better ones at my kids’ school. And yet the Left does not acknowledge the existence of these people or their deeds, for to do so would negate their entire world and render their entire thought process invalid-- they are tortured creatures—they deserve your pity, right after you crush them.

And so they must chase phantoms, while we stand in disbelief and shake our heads, wondering what to do about them.

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