L.A. Liberty

Scandalous as it may sound to the ears of Republicans schooled in Reaganomics, one critical measure of the health of a modern democracy is its ability to legitimately extract taxes from its own elites. The most dysfunctional societies in the developing world are those whose elites succeed either in legally exempting themselves from taxation, or in taking advantage of lax enforcement to evade them, thereby shifting the burden of public expenditure onto the rest of society.

— 

Francis Fukuyama (via azspot)

Ours is a republic, not a democracy. Democracy is simply mob rule, and I thought leftists were big on the whole “just because you’re the majority doesn’t mean you’re right” stuff.

And the easiest way to keep “elites” from evading taxes is - aside from eliminating them altogether - keeping them low enough that it’s not cost-effective to attempt to evade them and to eliminate the corporatist-fascist relationship with government that grants the favors, exemptions, subsidies, protections, tariffs, and bailouts.

In other words, less government - as scandalous as it may sound to the ears of Leftists schooled in statist Keynesian nonsense.

(via azspot)

Notes:

1. bol-croatia reblogged this from azspot
2. croatia-holiday-apartments reblogged this from azspot
3. hairstyles-for-thin-fine-hair reblogged this from azspot
4. nhmortgagebroker reblogged this from azspot
5. edhardy-clothing liked this
6. muffinperson liked this
7. agapinbetween liked this
8. sophiamorena liked this
9. pinkcrusader reblogged this from azspot
10. jjarichardson reblogged this from azspot
11. ryewit liked this
12. nofuckinginthelibrary reblogged this from azspot
13. pleaseinsertacoin reblogged this from azspot
14. trxfreely liked this
15. dalasverdugo liked this
16. vihu liked this
17. doctordisaster liked this
18. djmadmike reblogged this from hairtrending and added:

    Fucking republiKKKans!

19. djmadmike liked this
20. goodbyeolepaint reblogged this from buffleheadcabin and added:

    Excellently put.

21. goodbyeolepaint liked this
22. pantalons reblogged this from azspot
23. xanderpiper liked this
24. xanderpiper reblogged this from azspot
25. panchodelaluna liked this
26. hairtrending reblogged this from azspot and added:

    Athenian… This post is evidence as to...true reason ‘publicans are rushing to eliminate...

27. hairtrending liked this
28. osker liked this
29. lunaticprophet reblogged this from azspot
30. sonnyjohl liked this
31. squashed liked this
32. thesociologist liked this
33. silas216 liked this
34. silas216 reblogged this from azspot
35. lenxo liked this
36. davincisbarber liked this
37. coyotesqrl liked this
38. redcloud liked this
39. petersheik liked this
40. randomactsofchaos liked this
41. jeu-psp reblogged this from azspot
42. azspot reblogged this from laliberty and added:

    form of democracy, namely, representative democracy, as opposed to Athenian style direct democracy. And

43. blech liked this
44. This was featured in #Long Reads
45. This was featured in #Politics
46. azspot posted this