Paying your taxes is patriotic, or something. We pay taxes so the government can take care of us and provide the services we need. If there was no income tax, there would be no police, no firefighters, no teachers, no garbage collectors, etc., etc. This is generally the refrain from the political left. Never mind that there were police, firefighters, teachers, garbage collectors, and etc., etc., before income tax was introduced. But the latest California wildfires – a tragedy of devastating proportions – have demonstrated the biggest flaw in the left’s pro-taxation argument. It’s a flaw of which limited-government proponents have long been aware. The billion-dollar question is, will Democrats and progressives finally figure it out?
In particular, the libertarian mantra, “taxation is theft,” has for years been the target of scorn and ridicule…