Two wonderful, short quotes from two of today’s WS JOURNAL letters to the editor — in response to a guest op-ed from a liberal economics professor defending the progressive tax system against calls for a flat tax:
1. [From a businessman] “Prof. Blinder, having spent his entire working life signing the back of a paycheck instead of the front . . . .”
2. [Dealing with the inequity of half the people not paying income tax, but getting an equal vote when it comes to subsidies] “The original Tea Party responded to taxation without representation. Today’s tea party takes to task representation without taxation.”
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/letters.html