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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (169905)8/23/2011 2:46:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 543637
 
But whichever explanation you go with, the bottom line is the same: we're not really having a discussion about taxes, yea or nay, in this country. We're having a discussion about the distribution of the tax and deficit-reduction burden, and the two sides' opinions on that question are driving their take on taxes.

I agree with this concluding paragraph. Weigel got part of the Tea Party argument right. The part he missed is this: Republicans think the Democrats plan is deliberately to increase the moocher class to more than half the voters in a bid to stay in power permanently as the party of handouts. However, once the class of moochers becomes a majority, the natural tendency for government spending to spin out of control becomes absolutely unstoppable in a democracy; it leads to societal collapse.
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