Twelve cookies on a plate
The political elite are always going to tell you that they can pay for their programs by taking someone else’s money. But if you’re in the middle class, you are where the money is; they’re lying if they tell you otherwise. When there are twelve cookies, a CEO, a middle-class worker, and the poor, it will be the middle class who gets shafted, no matter what the “elite” try to tell you on Facebook memes.
“There’s twelve cookies on a plate…”
Of course, the real answer is to get rid of the crazy regulations that keep the baker from hiring more than ten employees. The left likes to think that the pie—or the plate of cookies, in this case—is always the same size, and that everyone taking a cookie is stealing from the poor. Free the baker to hire more employees to bake more cookies, or free the poor to start their own bakery without having to come up with the cash to hire a battery of tax lawyers and employment lawyers, and the supply of cookies will increase.
In response to 2015 in photos: For photos and perhaps other quick notes sent from my mobile device or written on the fly during 2015.
- Eat the Rich!: Iowahawk and Bill Whittle at Feed Your Family on $10 Billion a Day
- “Is America really broke? Michael Moore (and others) tells us that there are oceans of cash being hoarded by the wealthy. But Iowahawk did a little addition, and armed with these statistics Bill and the ’Hawk blow a hole in the hoarding lie big enough to fit a documentary filmmaker through.”
More memes
- The Jurassic Park shutdown
- You know what else was opened before it was ready?
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
- Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- The eye of the insulter
- The left has become so unhinged that they’re sending out promo photos for President Trump, thinking they’re insulting him. They seem to have a pathological inability to appreciate working, and don’t recognize a serious working photo when they see one.
- Slavery does not create wealth
- Frederick Douglass was born in slavery and escaped it. He tells us that slavery by its very nature destroys rather than creates wealth. That it creates a poverty not just of mind and spirit, but of the pocketbook as well.
- Left believes atheists are wasteful bullies?
- The left is touting a new study that claims to show that those without religious upbringing are more likely to sympathize with victimizers than with victims, and are more wasteful with other people’s resources.
- Nine more pages with the topic memes, and other related pages
More taxes
- Growth does not pay for itself
- Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
- Tax me to the church on time
- The left wants to take the policies that are consolidating small businesses into larger ones, and use them to consolidate small churches into larger ones. They want to leverage milker bills and rent-seeking in religion.
- How did Donald Trump qualify for a middle-class tax break?
- Trump qualifies for tax breaks because we have a complex tax system that encourages anyone who can afford to, to hire tax lawyers. Big government needs a complex tax system to survive.
- Income tax vs. national sales tax
- There is no such thing as a fair tax. All we can do is try for the simplest, most unobstructive tax we can find.
- Essential revolution: lasting reform
- The most important reform is the reform that makes the reformer obsolete.
- 26 more pages with the topic taxes, and other related pages
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