Links & doinks
Starting off with a non-doink, the BOMS is up for the week.
Tim Blair reports that some on the left have taken to sending abusive emails to Iraqi bloggers who don’t toe the insurgent line. A few others have set up a mock Republican site, needless to say the Republicans are all racist Nazis meme is prevelant. One does hope that anything so ott is actually satire but I rather doubt it.
This bit came via a contact at my alma malus:
Two days after Bush wins the election, some real sore losers at Colby College decided to throw a tantrum on the steps of the library in the form of a “Funeral for America.”
Someone was nice enough to email me a kind comment about my SDR&R piece and sent me this interesting link.
Paul needs a laptop, so he goes out to buy one. Simple transaction you say? Not in Quebec it bloody isn’t!
Speaking of Canucks: Colby Cosh has written a very interesting piece on why watching C-Span’s political phone-in shows is a bad idea for the non-American.
4 commentsFlat on!
The Telegraph praises Bush’s rhetorical nods to a flat tax. Like me, they would like to see him pursue this with all the vigor he can muster.
The advantage of a flat tax is that the massive reduction in compliance costs and the abolition of allowances make the system very efficient. Evasion is also much more difficult. And this means that the rate can be set relatively low. A flat tax also improves incentives, because hard workers know they won’t be punished by a higher rate, as happens in current ``progressive’’ income tax systems.
I was a fan of Steve Forbes and his plan for a flat tax. Working for his campaign and supporting him was part of the inspiration for my writing Statism Sucks! Ver 2.0, and certainly encouraged me to write the taxation chapter.
Let’s hope the Bush administration pursues a solid campaign of taxation simplification. It would be an excellent use of the Republican control of the White House, House, & Senate.
The Adam Smith blog has a nice piece on flax tax.
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