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Nekkid Truths

Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments

I read Lewis Grizzard’s “I Haven’t Understood Anything Since 1962 and other Nekkid Truths” a while ago. I remembered a passage that I wanted to pass on to my readers, and just managed to track it down again.

Tax Incentives For The Rich: You saw what happened with the liberals’ stupid luxury tax, didn’t you? It was a way to get the rich, but it didn’t. The luxury tax on boats, for instance, was so high, rich people didn’t buy any boats, so the boat industry went to hell and put a lot of people out of work.

We ought to keep the rich as rich as possible, because nobody poor was ever able to afford to give anybody else a job

It has always boggled my mind, the desire in so many to ‘punish’ businesses that are successful. Successful businesses are how we get more jobs. It is how we get affordable goods & services. “Big Business” is a dirty word to some people, but every big business was a small business at one time. A small business that was allowed to grow and become successful. Something we will see less and less of as the government does more and more to “help” the poor.

You want to help the poor? Let rich people be rich. Let middle class people build their businesses without unnecessary and ridiculous interference from D.C. Encourage the American Dream – being rich is not being evil.



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