First, Tatum Hubbard of CBS-7 does a very nice job at banquets. PW has mentioned this once before in this column. People are always saying they are going to announce the head table s name, but nobody ever does. Poor William likes both of them in this role, although Mike is somewhat funnier. Tatum makes up for that in other ways.
Every tax represents a transfer of power and freedom from the people to the government.
The underlying premise of every tax is that the money will do more good in the hands of government than in the hands of the people who earned it. Liberals believe human existence is an accident which happened in a universe created by an uncaused explosion. We are all victims of fate, heredity, the environment and societal forces. This is why liberals avoid words like willpower and self-responsibility and merit and sin. They see differences in wealth, talent, achievement, and intelligence as not only unfair but divisive.