Just Another Robbin' Hood

Take more from the rich because they can afford it!

That's the mindset of armed thugs who prey on those they believe to be worth robbing and statist looters who command public instruments of violence and seek to extort ever more in taxes from the same targets.

The latter group seeks the support of members of the public who envy and perhaps even resent those among them who have achieved a greater than average level of material success.

It's only fair, claim the would be looters, citing the tax burden of ordinary citizens and the enormous and growing debt the claimants have imposed and are continuing to impose on the body politic.

They never mention that almost half of the population lives off the taxes and debt the looters already have put into place to buy their free loading constituencies.

They never talk about stopping spending, and the idea of taxing everybody and of lower taxes for all never enters their thinking or their speechifyings.