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February 24, 2003

Two jumps and a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever, don't you boy. Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop. Kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not. Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry. Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk. All your insides fall to peices, you just sat there wishing you could still make love. They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out. They're the once who'll spit at you, you'll be the one screaming out. Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry. It's the best thing that you ever had, the best thing you ever had is gone away. Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry.

This weekend I took a trip out to Ohio State to visit Rosie, John, and Joe. It wasn't really what I was expecting, but it still managed to be a good time. There's a few photos of the journey in the photo section, who's adding script is no longer broken so I can actually use it again.

I want to get some spare time and clean up some old entries. I was looking up something to figure out about how long ago it happened and the entry was all crazy and was in the old "all in one big block" format, I'd like to change that and make as much of this have the same kind of feel to it, even if the content has changed a great deal.

But for now, Hans pointed out an article in the paper today which demonstrates the highly liberal campus that I go to school on, and I figured I'd share a few points on it here. One of the things the guy was talking about doing in this little rant of his, was repealing tax breaks that were issued, and instead placing even larger taxes on the rich, and no taxes on the poor. And now I'd like to explain why this makes him a communist...

Something a lot of people that favor a movement like this seem to misunderstand is the following truth. People don't just get rich by luck. Lotto winners get rich by luck. People get rich by establishing businesses and, not surprisingly, employing people who make less money than they do. By taxing employers more heavily, what you are doing is raising the cost of earning that extra dollar you could be making, by having a larger business with more employees. This makes small businesses stay small, as crossing the gap into a medium-sized or regional business has become more arduous, due to the fact that in order to actually start making more money, you first have to overcome the new tax bracket you've just found yourself in. Really, this isn't that big of a deal because people seem to like small businesses, and it makes job positions more competetive. yay.

Here's the problem...

What happens to the medium-sized businesses? Or the large businesses? You can't just tax them more, you will actually make it a profitable decision to decrease the size of the company, laying off workers until you can get yourself right up against the bottom edge of a tax bracket. The only ways to deal with this would be to either assume that suddenly people will spring up from the woodwork to incorporate these freshly laid off individuals into new small businesses which, and this is moot but I stand by it, is not something I believe the economy has the capacity for on the kind of scale which it is bound to happen. Or you could impose restrictions on these companies denouncing and restricting mass-downsizing as a viable form of keeping your company out of the red due to these new tax increases. And if you did this, then as a government, you'd have to keep the company out of the red yourself or the whole thing would go in the toilet.

And this is where our friend dons a red blazer complete with a little embroidered hammer and sickle. Unless he's got a better way of getting people to remain employers while he slowly makes it a living nightmere, he's going to have to create some kind of legal "incentive" for them to keep people in jobs. And getting ourselves into this kind of situation is asking for trouble in more ways than I can even paint.

The solution, well that's simple, make people want to be employers. Make it a nice, warm, comfy feeling so that we as a country can squeeze every bit of entrepreneurship out of society. It's a rare trait and we shouldn't make it more so by damning those willing with more taxes. Hell, provide tax breaks or some other incentives on having employees. In the end you'll have a lower class that won't be paying zero taxes, which might have sounded nice in a stump-speech, but they'll all have jobs, which I hope we can agree actually is nice.

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