December 2010
5 posts
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
- Richard Crashaw
May you have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope, and the peace of His love at Christmas and always.
(3rd picture was created by myself and, being simplified and vague, is in no way foolproof)
RE: the cartoonist who did not understand that...
INCREASING TAXES does not INCREASE REVENUE in a monotonically linear sense.
“If you tax people at 100 percent — which means you’d take all of their income — people quit their jobs, and you’d get zero dollars in taxes. And rates that are close to 100 percent create similar disincentives. Back in 1980, for example, tax rates were much higher than they are now,...
“It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends...”
– Cicero