Laws of (Human) Nature

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What you TAX you get less of.

What you SUBSIDIZE you get more of.

These are Laws of (Human) Nature.

Tax business, you get less business. Tax profits, you get fewer profits (and fewer taxes!) Tax success, you get less success. Tax ingenuity, you get less ingenuity. Tax entrepreneurship and you get less entrepreneurship. Tax wealth, you get less wealth. Tax marriage, you get less marriage. Tax consumption, you get less consumption. Tax gasoline, you get less gasoline. Tax industriousness, you get less industriousness.

Subsidize bad loans, you get more bad loans. Subsidize economic irresponsibility, you get more economic irresponsibility. Subsidize borrowing by the insolvent, you get more borrowing by the insolvent. Subsidize failing corporations, you get more failing corporations. Subsidize indolence, you get more indolence. Subsidize illegals, you get more illegals. Subsidize abortion, you get more abortions. Subsidize fatherless children, you get more fatherless children. Subsidize broken families, you get more broken families. Subsidize single mothers, you get more single mothers. Subsidize poverty, you get more poverty. Subsidize unemployment, you get more unemployment.

Conservatives get this. Liberals don't. In fact, in their delusional worldview exactly the opposite is true. And that's why Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats in Congress "don't know what to do" about the current financial crisis. Their playbook apparently says that if you encourage irresponsible and corrupt lending practices, you'll create a strong, vibrant and sound economy.

The only other possibility is that they WANTED this to happen. And while I wouldn't put it past some of the hard Left, I don't think even un-Americans like Pelosi and Reid are prepared to actually ruin the country on purpose just to advance Marxism.

But hey, I've been wrong before.

The Gunslinger
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