Lefty Commentator: ‘I Finally Found a Tax I Don’t Like – and it’s this VAT Tax!’
8th April 2010
Read it.
And the reason why is a complete giveaway:
“Everybody, you’re going to be surprised: I finally found a tax I don’t like, and it’s this VAT tax!” Skinner exclaimed. “Here’s why – it doesn’t produce any behavioral changes – it’s hidden as Gerri Willis said. What you want in a tax is a tax that changes behavior.”
And that’s why ‘progressive’ notions of taxation are entirely illegitimate. The only legitimate justification for a tax is to raise revenue to pay for the necessary operations of government. Anything else is theft, pure and simple. The ideal tax is like making people swim in water: Yes, it’s a burden, but it affects everyone equally, and doesn’t distort economic activity.
But distortion of economic activity is precisely what ‘progressives’ want: They manipulate economic conditions in order to impose a political agenda in an attempt to make their imposition self-enforcing. ‘We can’t make you do it, but we can sure make you wish you had.’