Cato Ad Infinito

[Carl Remick]

Re Joseph Noonan's:  "The double taxation canard is a favorite of the
right.  But
if this phrase 'double taxation' is to mean anything, why isn't it
true of my income as a wage slave.  I pay income taxes and then I turn
around and pay sales tax on the money I have left after the nasty
confiscatory Federal Gov't has stolen from me.  How is that any
less 'double taxation'?"

Bull's-eye!  Excellent comparison.  Considering the world's gross
economic inequities of every sort, I've never understood this right-wing
fetish about double taxation of dividends.  Or rather, I DO understand
right-wingers are hopelessly greedy, but I don't get why they think
arguments that serve their own interests so baldly are going to have
popular appeal. 

Carl Remick