Taxes
All this arguing over taxes is giving me a headache. “We need higher taxes”, say the liberals. “We need lower taxes”, say the conservatives.
I think we need to give them both what they want and be done with it.
Set up two tax brackets, a flat ten percent rate for the conservatives and a ninety percent rate for the liberals.
To be fair, since conservatives would no longer be paying into the welfare state (their money would be used for the things the government is supposed to be doing, like funding the military and justice system), they would need to take over responsibility for their own retirement and health care.
Also, to be fair, we would have to make it so only tax-paying liberals could qualify for welfare benefits from the state (if you don’t pay in, you don’t draw out).
There would be a lot of benefits from such an arrangement:
1. Both sides would get what they want.
2. We could finally run an unbiased experiment to see which group’s principles lead to the most prosperity.
3. Liberals can demonstrate their faithfulness to their principles (Putting their money where their mouth is, as they say).
4. The number of ‘conservatives’ would jump significantly.
5. The welfare state would go out of business pretty quickly.
