Republican leaders weathered the recent debt ceiling debate with aplomb, fiercely and tirelessly resisting all calls for increases in Government Revenues through new taxes. Their opposition to new taxes is so absolute, so unrelenting, that it effectively rests on a total renunciation of belief in the legal morality of taxation. Republicans would be more philosophically consistent if they simply admitted that they hate all taxes and that the very idea of taxes appalls them.
But such a position amounts to support of no funding at all for government. It would be crazy for American politicians, who are paid handsome salaries and given handsome benefits at taxpayer expense, to oppose all funding for government. Right?
I agree, I think there needs to be a new word for taxes. The Republicans have a disease or something. They have truly become crazy when it comes to this word. What new word could we use?
Well, Republicans like some things, like private clubs. Maybe we could call taxes ‘dues’ or something.