OPINION:
The authority to tax is the power to control, contain and crush (“Tax hikes reveal Congress’ economic ignorance,” Web, Sept. 21). Whenever I hear that a politician wants to raise taxes, even if it’s ’for the children,’ I get the shakes, the willies and (if it’s a progressive demand) full-blown delirium tremens. Call me an old fuddy duddy but I just don’t trust politicians, especially ones that consider the donkey an attractive mascot.
Now, I don’t mind funding essential services by paying my share, but that’s the rub, isn’t it? What you and I consider essential makes for a far shorter list than the one drawn up by the Rantin’ Bernie Sanders crowd of spendthrift nincompoops, profligate wastrels all.
I just hope that at the end of a taxing day, after they fleece me thoroughly, they have the decency to leave me a wee dram of highly peated single-malt Scotch with a beer back.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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