EATING THE SEED CORN…
October 15th, 2006
For the first time in many years I wish I had a subscription to the Plain Dealer just so I could call up the subscription department and cancel it. As a fine example of journalistic and civic leadership, the editorial board of the Pee Dee has dropped its pants and assumed the position writing: “It’s time for Ohio to take a gamble.”
Take a gamble?
Let me translate that for you. We’ve no idea how to make the uber wealthy who have been sucking at the public teat for 50 years behave responsibly and since all our jobs are swirling down the toilet anyway as the city crumbles into a Mad Max-esque movie set we figured what the hell, lets throw the dice and really go down in flames, at least it’ll make good copy.
Feck! Even the GOP thinks this is a bad idea.
It’s time to get out of town.
I have plans, Jeff, plans I say. :) I’ll keep you posted.
[...] Consider: studies show, generally, that lowering taxes stimulates the economy and generates greater tax revenues; hiking taxes stifles the economy and tax revenues actually drop — just the opposite of what people tend to think. Jeff Hess talks about “the uber wealthy who have been sucking at the public teat for 50 years,” and he is not too far off at all — just about every politician that proposes new taxes as a solution to everything is guilty of the very offense Jeff describes. [...]