8.07.2007

Gingrich: Taxes = Victimization

Is paying taxes to fund common resources a form of oppression? Newt Gingrich seems to think so.

In a column about the collapse of Interstate 35W here in Minneapolis, he implies the suffering caused by the bridge collapse is of the same magnitude as paying taxes:
[P]eople should not be re-victimized by using this tragedy as an excuse to raise taxes.
And people say Democrats are "politicizing" this tragedy?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, suffering by taxes or suffering by collapsing bridges because we didn't pay taxes. Yeah, there's a deep moral quandry for you.

Ben said...

Republicans politicize every tragedy, and always manage to turn my stomach in doing so.