Politico recently published a post about a novel suggestion for how the government might raise revenue:
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit proposed a 50 percent surtax on the post-administration private sector incomes of top government officials and excise taxes on movie tickets, DVDs and digital music downloads.
“Then let Hollywood scream about how the tax increase would destroy American jobs,” he wrote.
And when they scream the rest of us can call them selfish, greedy, immoral, evil and unwilling to share the sacrifice.
Sweet!
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1 HappyTaxDude // Aug 2, 2011 at 7:33 am
Since I’m just a low-level federal retirement, I’m all for this “shared sacrifice.” These are the same nitwits who, in the last month of each fiscal year, sent out directions to empty all budgets with unneeded purchases so that the next budget numbers would increase with that wonderful accounting fraud called baseline budgeting.