“In truth, however, I know there are lots of Americans who, whatever their income, believe that the government should get its grubby hands off their money. To them, I’d simply say that if you drive on a highway, walk on a sidewalk, use the postal service, send your kids to public school (or appreciate the fact that public schools keep your neighbors’ kids off the streets), and generally enjoy the fact that 300 million people are able to live in something other than chaos and squalor, you should accept the fact that all this stuff has a price tag.”
– Vanity Fair (via Heilemannr)
Hi, I'm Scott Vandehey
It drives me wild that this is not a lesson we expect people to master in high school.
Why is this so unclear to so many people?
All laborers are worthy of their hire — every worker should get paid — and every worker should pay back into the common pot a reasonable percentage to finance the society that makes their work and wages possible.
No matter what Rush and Rove say, capitalism relies on taxes to provide the infrastructure which makes private profit possible. And that’s what Obama is promoting, not socialism, which is a different kettle of fish.
Posted on November 3, 2008 at 5:01 pm.