Posted on 10/07/2016 8:01:11 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
Out of this sweet parfait of emotions comes a sense of a common beauty that transcends individual beauty. There’s a sense of how a lovely society is supposed to be. This means that the economic desire to save money on taxes competes with a larger desire to be part of a lovely world.
In a lovely society we all pull our fair share. Some things the government does are uncontroversial goods: protecting us from enemies, preserving the health and dignity of the old and infirm. These things have to be paid for, and in the societies we admire, everybody helps.
In a lovely society everybody practices a kind of social hygiene. There are some things that are legal but distasteful and corrupt. In a lovely society people shun these corrupt and corrupting things. The tax code is a breeding ground for corruption, so they don’t take advantage. The lottery system immiserates the poor so they don’t contribute to its acceptability by playing.
In a lovely society everyone feels privilege, but the rich feel a special privilege. They know that they have already been given more than they deserve, and that it is actually not going to hurt all that much to try to be worthy of what they’ve received.
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David Brooks is flat out insane (evil)! This reads like poorly translated North Korean propaganda.
He wasn't on his Friday NPR gig. Hopefully, some nice citizens carted him off to the "Lovely Farm".
It’s purportedly about Trump.
But if this evil critter thinks that a yearly stand alone tax is wonderful, shouldn’t a daily one be even better?
This is bullshit.
David is a kook.
David Brooks, journoblogger for Sulzberger’s Blog, weighs in on taxes.
Lovely society? Wtheck is little Davey going on about?
That's the point. He's flat-out nuts!
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