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corner.nationalreview.com - 2/27/2009
Re: I Don't Want To Pay For It (Either)
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Amen, brother Jonah. I don't want to pay for this stuff either. I was sympathetic to Ben Stein's argument during GW Bush that we should have an income tax surcharge on the wealthy to pay for the war, and I'd have gladly paid such a surtax for that cause. But not this explosion of ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/27/2009
I Don't Want To Pay For It
— corner.nationalreview.com — That is, by far, my driving attitude in all of this. I just don't want to pay... for it. It's not that I don't want government to do nice things for deserving people in certain circumstances. It's not necessarily that I'm hostile to this group of ... (more) I Don't Want To Pay For It

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PoliGazette:  Who is John Galt?

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Who is John Galt?
PoliGazette — ... Steve Hayward says that if Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase is implemented that he will go on strike in the fashion of John Galt, Ayn Rand’s famous lead in Atlas Shrugged. ...

alicublog — ... is talking about showing his patriotic disgust by looking "for every means within the boundaries of the law to minimize what I pay in taxes," which I assumed he did already, though I may have been overestimating his self-maintenance skills. His colleague Steve Hayward invokes the John Galt option, saying "my bigger idea is to go all Randian and literally go on strike... I'm going to start converting income opportunities into more leisure by deliberately reducing my income... I suspect a lot of self-employed people will make similar calculations and adjustments, ...

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