The debate over the debt ceiling is getting predictably ridiculous. The federal government collects more than enough taxes.
Let’s also dispense with the stupid assertion that taxing “the rich” will solve all of our problems. That won’t work, because the problem is spending. Anyone who denies it is either uninformed, blindly partisan, or a liar.
Raising taxes will do nothing good
People respond to taxes. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but to hear the Left’s explanations, the federal government can extract more and more money from their preferred targets without any repercussions. In Progressive…