La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for April 15, 2010
April 14, 2010
April 16, 2010
Transcript:
Chepe: We wish we could join your protest about... Uh... Man: Payin' too much taxes for big government! Chepe: You pay a lot of taxes? Man: I totally would... If I wasn't getting my disability checks.
Reflex: Exactly what is it you say the Tea Partyers are ignorant of? If that is supposed to be a thoughtful comment, you should be able to answer. If not, then you were apparently just name-calling.
As for Social Security, I draw it even though I consider the entire system immoral. The system taxed me for almost 50 years, and its advocates have always insisted that it is something I’ve paid for and deserve, and I’m holding them to it. It is they who are taking other people’s money, not me, and turning it down won’t bring down the system (although if it could, I would).
As for people complaining about taxes even after cuts, what is so hard about understanding that? The government lets me keep slightly more of my money and I should be grateful they don’t take more?
If government were restrained to the defense of rights, taxes would be a tiny fraction of what they are now. As for everything else that governments currently do, if it is something that someone should be doing, someone will. There is a large body of free-market history and economic theory that establishes that fact. But most people today are totally ignorant of such facts.