Saturday, February 12, 2005
Save your farookin' money!
(Gary Varvel, The Indianapolis Star-News)If the Democrats were really concerned about regressive taxation, they would campaign against state lotteries, the most deceptive and regressive means for the raising of revenue that I know of. Instead of implying that wealth is the product of windfalls (shameless operators who become "Benedict Arnold" CEOs, or plaintiffs who pull the right morons from the jury pool), they would tell people that the surest path to wealth is to save your money. Don't spend it on clothes you don't need, dinner in restaurants (and especially alcohol in restaurants -- what a massively wasteful expense that is), pieces of kitsch at roadside stands, tasteless greeting cards in mall Hallmark shops, gasoline you burn only because you're too lazy to ride a bike or you "need" to park your fat ass high off the ground, electric bills because you can't work it up to turn off the light switch, trinkets for your hideously spoiled children who do not know the meaning of doing without (oops, I may have done that), or a house so huge that you could pack in three of your family. Save your money. Then, when you can afford to live off the money you've saved, vote for the people who won't tax your savings twice.
Oh. That's probably why the Democrats don't tell us to save our money.
CWCID: pike speak.
3 Comments:
By 
Fire, at
Sat Feb 12, 11:54:00 PM:
Does this mean I have to give back my lottery ticket?
LOL
By Fausta, at
Sun Feb 13, 10:07:00 AM:
Ownership and self-reliance, two of the essential concepts on which our country was founded, are anathema to the "liberal" mind, and most particularly to the current leadership of the Democrat party.
By 
, at
Tue Sep 13, 05:49:00 PM:
Nice Blog, I found it while looking for picture of money
