REASON Ping!
Zero sum: If the government spends more on wasteful crap, then the people have less to spend on the the things they need.
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In March 2009, when the president was pushing to jack up taxes on charitable contributions by the well-to-do
I didn't realize this was happening. Taxing charitable donations is as obscene and immoral as legalizing abortion. It is an assertion of omnipotence by the state. I would think passing such legislation would be the tipping point of the social order.
Liberals believe that you can raise the toll on a bridge from a buck to ten bucks and that will raise ten times the revenue.
Good people believe that economics are a positive sum game. Bad people believe it’s all a zero sum game, and take actions to create a negative sum game.