Which is worse? Liberal politicians or liberal journalists?
No, that isn’t a trick question. The answer would be they are both pretty bad.
Illinois is a perfect example of the nexus of liberal politicians and liberal journalists and the disaster that results for the taxpayer.
Illinois is one of the most reliably blue states, thanks primarily to the domination of Chicago politics by the party of corruption. Illinois has spent money like there was no tomorrow, and then they were shocked to find that tomorrow is now today.
The corrupt politicians of Illinois have sold their souls, or at least their votes to every special interest group out there that wants money from the government. Illinois has gone through all the money they can raise or borrow. The logical thing to do would be to cut spending. Unfortunately, when you are dealing with liberal politicians, logic and common sense are on the endangered species list.
Politicians in Illinois last year raised personal income taxes by 67% and corporate income taxes by 50%. That increase may not be enough to satisfy the bottomless pit of liberal government spending.
One of the most egregious taxes imposed was a tax on Internet sales by affiliates. Affiliates are people who have their own websites and advertise for a company on that website. If someone purchases through that affiliate, the affiliate gets a commission. When faced with the prospect of paying taxes on Internet sales, Amazon.com instead eliminated about 9,000 affiliates in Illinois. At least 9,000 people lost full or part time jobs thanks to another tax greedy politicians imposed.
Politicians and journalists in Illinois were shocked. How dare companies not simply sit there and gladly fork over taxes? Some of those people and companies affected by the taxes went across the state line to tax friendlier states.
The Chicago Tribune two days ago responded with an editorial demanding that the federal government enact legislation so that taxes would be imposed on all Internet sales.
The language in the Chicago Tribune editorial was amusing. They said, “No one likes taxes, and tax laws are time-consuming and burdensome for any business. But at a time when so many others are being asked to make major sacrifices to offset state revenue losses, this loophole must be closed.”
Why don’t we start by asking the Tribune to sacrifice? Why don’t we start by asking liberals to sacrifice? Perhaps liberals could sacrifice by staying out of politics for the next fifty years while we correct their mistakes.
George Will has an excellent piece in the Washington Post, which also ran on the 29th. Will points out, when you treat businesses badly, they leave. When you abuse them, they leave. When you try to make them your golden goose so they fund every corrupt special interest that makes you campaign contributions and you make business the villain in all of your political efforts, business leave.
Liberals have only one solution. They want to tax. They are totally oblivious to the consequences taxes have. Want to know why so many corporations have moved off shore so millions of Americans lost jobs? Taxes. Want to know why businesses just moved out of Illinois? Taxes.
Liberals have never met a tax they did not like.
How about we impose massive taxes on liberal newspapers? There is a tax I could support.
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