NYT Blames Racism for Americans Wanting to Keep the Money They Earn
“I have written about this country’s uniquely stingy tax policy before.”
by Alex Parker
Some people like to keep the money they make. There’s a word for those people, according to leftist economics columnist Eduardo Porter: (wait for it…) racists.
(Eureka!)
New York Times writer Porter says in Wednesday’s “Considering the True Cost Of Keeping Taxes Lower” that Americans would have no problem shelling out mega-money for the government’s pet projects if only we weren’t so doggone filled with hatred for minorities. Eschewing notions of “rugged individualism” as a reason to hold onto one’s earnings, Porter lands the front page of the Business Day section with the blunt accusation of racial hostility. It is, he says, the cause of our country’s resistance to the extreme financial governmental confiscation found in other parts of the world. Porter paints America as strange as he mandates that we get with the program:
American tax policy must stand as one of the great mysteries of the global political economy…Wagner’s Law, named for the 19th-century German economist Adolph Wagner, states that government spending as a share of the economy will increase as nations get richer and their citizens demand more and better public services. This may approximate public policy in other industrialized nations. In the United States, it fails.
Porter’s assertion that it is the rich who want to benefit from government services seems patently absurd…but he continues, ridiculing the country’s wimpy federal government that just isn’t giving (subsequent to taking) nearly enough for our own good:
Americans are paying dearly as a result, as their comparatively small government has proved incapable of providing an adequate safety net to protect those most vulnerable to globalization and technological change.
Furthermore, Porter tells us he just can’t fathom why we’d want to keep our earnings, but then he hits pay dirt — racism:
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