For one, Mafoo throws around all kinds of labels like its a bad habit. He's like a political label maker.
For two, Its not that I don't think raising taxes affects motivation, I just think people are so damn greedy by nature that the effect is negligible.
There is one thing you can count on in this country, people always want money. Its the same thing as trying to outlaw marijuana. People will get it one way or another because there is such a high demand. The difference is society benefits from tax revenue whereas we waste a ton of resources enforcing anti-marijuana laws (which would save taxpayers money if we got rid of them).
So at the end of the day, greed wins over a 2.5% increase in your marginal tax rate. That's assuming you even pay all of that extra 2.5% as well.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
