February 3, 2015
Robert McIntyre
Citizens for Tax Justice
@The Sun Sentinel Op-Ed
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE: Is it true that the Tooth Fairy lives at the bottom of a wishing well? Some comments on your hilarious Op-Ed in today’s Sun Sentinel with the really funny part being that you mean every word of it.

Mr. McIntyre,

If you believe that raising taxes on corporations will result in increasing net revenue to the people of the United States of America through their untamed, unchained, power grabbing, one time servants, the IRS louts of theFederal government you also believe any and all of the following:

#1 – The Bermuda Triangle
#2 – Atlantis
#3 – The Easter Bunny
#4 – “I will calm the seas and cool the earth”
#5 – Reset buttons
#6 – Rainbow stew
#7 – Balloon juice
#8 – Pasta bushes
#9 – The War on Poverty
#10 - #1 through #9 cubed

Of course I realize that I may be making my point, as is oft-times said in Las Vegas, the hard way. Alas, one of the building blocks of modern American Liberalism, as virulent and as drug resistant a virus as is to be found on the planet, is the willing suspension of either belief or disbelief of its apostles as the situation requires.

“Shovel ready jobs” and perpetual “Summers of Recovery”, and without hope however impossible, how could Democrats survive, are but the latest chapters in the ongoing fantasy soap opera entitled “Gravity – Who Needs It”?

Now that I have your attention I must give you the empirically self-evident bad news.



CORPORATIONS DON’T PAY TAXES.
NEVER HAVE. NEVER WILL.

Taxes are like salaries, insurance premiums, loan payments, 3 martini lunches, “Golden Parachutes”, charitable contributions, stock buy backs, R & D, raw materials, legal fees….Raise your hand if I am going too fast for you. I’ll type more slowly.

Taxes are but one more expense to be borne by the shareholders. [The most recent exception to this was Solyndra. Here all the risk and all the losses were borne by the American taxpayer. Well played, Obama. Well played.]

You make 2 statements of note in your unlinkable screed in today’s Sun Sentinel.

“…the plan would deprive the U.S. Treasury of $1.7 trillion dollars.”

A quick glance of my copy of the Constitution shows that the word deprive and its Logical antecedent entitle are nowhere to be found.

Honest. Look it up.

“…Americans overwhelmingly think…”

If taking a poll of Americans is how you construct economic policy would not Logic dictate that social policy should be set the same way?

62% of Florida’s electorate voted against same sex marriage.

No state in the Union, most particularly including California, has ever approved same sex marriage when the issue was put to it in a voting booth. Polls, depending on who asks and how the question is asked, can be skewed both alop and awry. In the privacy of a voting booth the truth will out.

Why then are we on the verge of Mr & Mr wedding invitations?

Honest. Look it up.

Would I be a nag if I were to point out that we borrowed and spent $1,000,000,000,000 – that’s one trillion. I hope I have enough zeros – 5 years ago on “shovel ready jobs” to beef up our aging infrastructure? I would hate to think that the “shovels” weren’t quite as “ready” as the government told us.

Do you think they lied? Find out and get back to me, please.

There is a marvelous scene in Butch Cassidy where the soon to be killed rico hombre says

“MORONS. I AM SURROUNDED BY MORONS.”

I now know where his ghost lives.





Kevin Smith


PS – Imagine, as Churchill said in describing the practical effects of Socialism, a man standing in a bucket and trying to pick himself up by the handle. Do you think it’s time for a 105% tax bracket? That would be “fair”, wouldn’t it?