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On a similar theme I always liked Sir Winston Churchill on taxes: >We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in
by jaclaz 4y ago
On a similar theme I always liked Sir Winston Churchill on taxes:
>We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoIt's a great line, but it's highly misleading. You don't tax Nations, you tax richer individuals (more). So it's like asking a strongman to lift a child. The child is weak through no fault of it's own, and the strongman is well fed because the child spends all day preparing food for them. Instead we demand the children to carry oneanother. Sorry, but this sort of comment (Churchill's) smarts, as in the UK we've just faced a budget that very negatively impacted the poor and gave more to the wealthy. Alexander Boris de Pfeffle Johnson was a noted lover of Churchill, and I can't help feel that this sort of empty rhetoric would have been his (Johnson's) answer to why it was fine to reduce taxation on Champagne at a time of increasing poverty and after his government had spent years increasing the wealth gap.
- jaclaz 4y agoI don't see why (or in what) it is misleading. The sentence (which is smart) can be read either as a funny, smart one or taken seriously, if you do the latter, you need to put it in its context, Free-Trade vs. Protectionism in very early 20th century: https://richardlangworth.com/taxprosperity https://richardlangworth.com/taxprosperity BTW the sentence has been paraphrased from the original one.