The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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And that the Republican Party is composed of many factions, most of which are neither conservative nor libertarian.
Conservatism eventually had to die from itself. After it comes into power, it begins tearing down all the props that made things so great, eventually things aren't so great anymore...
Then when Conservatives say... "remember when"... people do remember and they remember that things were much better before conservatives came into power...
That is the problem with conservatives today... we do remember that they really messed things up...