It's not that he's incorrect. It's that his observation is generalized to the point of being a useless distraction from this particular conversation. Had he ind

It's not that he's incorrect. It's that his observation is generalized to the point of being a useless distraction from this particular conversation. Had he indicated how the potentially destructive power of taxation is actually being used destructively and deliberately in this particular case, he'd have said something knowledgeable and interesting. But of course, that's not what happened.