Three Cheers for Wealth Inequality

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  May 29th at 07:02 AM  | 

One can’t but hear the almost daily drumbeat from the left about how unequal things are in the United States. There is an income disparity between the haves and the have-nots where Wall Street bankers take millions of dollars home to their Greenwich mansions while millions of others work for minimum wage and can’t afford their own home, never mind something resembling a mini-Versailles. That | Read More »

Representation without Taxation… Should income taxes be a prerequisite for voting?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  August 29th at 05:34 AM  | 

In the United States we take taxes very seriously. Indeed it’s in our blood. One of the key reasons for the American Revolution was taxation without representation. The Colonists did not like the idea of paying taxes to England without having a voice in how those funds would be levied or spent, i.e. they didn’t have representation in Parliament. In some cases they had representation | Read More »

The rich don’t pay their fair share! Unfortunately that’s true…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  March 14th at 08:44 AM  | 

There’s an old saying; A picture is worth a thousand words. Pie charts will likely never be confused with great art in terms of story telling, but they have a way of making complicated issues clear. Income taxes are one of those things that are naturally difficult to grasp and the issue is made that much more opaque because liberals love to obscure the facts. | Read More »