I’ve shared a couple of amusing posts featuring Libertarian Jesus (see here and here), both of which make the point that compassion isn’t demonstrated by redistributing someone else’s income.
So it’s time to create a parallel character. We’ll call him Libertarian Doofus.
He already made one appearance in my libertarian humor collection, showing that he has a one-track mind, but not like most men.
Now Libertarian Doofus strikes again (as usual, credit belongs to Reddit‘s libertarian page). He’s somehow captured the imagination of a lovely young lass.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that he’s too myopic to take advantage of the situation.
Given the poor track record of the Federal Reserve, the corruption of Washington insiders, and the brutality of the income tax and IRS, can we really fault Doofus for being distracted from amorous pursuits?
And here’s how Doofus got to where he is today. He began as a clean-cut, well-adjusted lad. And then…
No wonder people roll their eyes when Doofus shows up for Thanksgiving dinner.
Finally, Doofus may not socially adept, but he is popular with the ladies. Though, once again, he is so focused on liberty that other opportunities go to waste.
This probably isn’t a good advertisement for libertarianism!
It’s like admitting we’re misfits with no social life.
So I’ll end by noting that libertarians sometimes do seize opportunities.
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My libertarian fantasy is for a tax code that is balanced in such a way that business hums, family wealth grows over a lifetime and the burden falls less on the good stewards when they multiply their wealth.
A good business should produce or go out of business to make way for the new. A VAT is the fairest way to tax different types of business across different taxing jurisdictions.
A corporate income tax reduces the transfer to individual owners (dividends & reinvestment) and workers (wages). Better to keep the corporate income tax low to increase dividends, reinvestment, and wages. On the individual side there is no need for reduced dividend rates because the market should demand that owners feel the full consequence of good or bad performance and influence businesses through stock trades and governance.
The revolution in tax will come when wealth and income are taxed inversely permitting all taxpayers to reduce the top rate to the extent they voluntarily pay some net worth (a/k/a wealth tax). The decline in family wealth can be reversed by letting low wealth families keep more of their earnings.
yes……………………………….. libertarians are creepy…
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