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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Tuesday Edition

Jimmie | June 7, 2011 | Comments (1)

I found an interesting little fact at The Ashbrook Center’s No Left Turns blog. The top 400 richest-households pay 7 times more in taxes now than they did in 1955, when we built our interstate highway system.

This leads me to ask a couple questions. The first, and most obvious, is why we can’t fix the roads we have now. After all, if we built the whole system on a mere fraction of what we get from “the rich” now, surely we can maintain them on far more.

But another question came to mind. How is it that the rich pay more now, even though they pay a smaller percentage of their wealth in taxes? To listen to the left over the past thirty years (give or take a decade), “the rich” are paying next to nothing and it’s only due to the heroic sacrifices of “the middle class” that we’re not dodging horse-sized pits in dirts roads that once were proud eight-lane blacktops. Why it’s almost as if lower taxes allow for greater freedom to create wealth, which allows for a greater total collection of…

…nah. Can’t be. That’s just crazy talk.

Don’t forget, The Delivery is live tonight at 9:30 P.M. Eastern. I’ll tell you the one thing a candidate can do that will win them the election in 2012. A hint: Ronald Reagan is involved. Also,I’ll discuss about endless book “trilogies” and the authors who write them.

And now, links!

It was easy for the public sector unions to bust the city of Providence, RI, after the city handed union leaders unchecked control of the coffers. Dan Collins’ co-blogger Meep provides a nearly-exhaustive list of all the other places under threat from the same kind of union treatment.
The evidence is clear: small government and more individual liberty is better for everyone than any left-wing big-government scheme (via Instapundit).
Darleen Click is correct. It really doesn’t matter if Sarah Palin was right about Paul Revere or not. Lots of people, some of them inside the Republican Party, have a number of unflattering narratives they want to push about Palin and they’ll take any opportunity to do so, regardless of facts.
I honestly do not know why people continue to trust egomaniacs who are open and honest about their mania.
I am very nearly where Jeff Goldstein is on the Republican Party right now. I figure one more Boehner backroom betrayal special and I’ll be on the Outlaw Express myself.