When You See a Turtle Sitting on a Fencepost….

…You know he had help getting up there. Scott Adams, at Dilbert blog, says the main effect of Obama’s proposed tax policies will be to “ to give my money to people who don’t work as hard as I do .”  He mentions the decidedly Type-A work habits by which he managed to get to his present condition… The average work week is something like 35 hours. For most of my work life I worked about twice that much. …and repeats that as a generalization, Obama promises to take a large chunk of my hard-earned money and transfer it primarily to people who don’t work as hard. That’s just a fact. And in yet another post , he equates the top marginal tax rate to the number of poor people which a given rich person is “subsidizing.” First of all, just in passing, I never realized the primary purpose of the money the federal government spends on “defense,” on interest to T-bill holders, on highways, on prisons and t...