Comments on: Merkel Pledges Tax Cuts Despite Rising Deficit http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/06/30/merkel-pledges-tax-cuts-despite-rising-deficit/ Jack's Newswatch - You can fool some of the bears all of the time, and all of the bears some of the time, but you can not fool all of the bears all of the time — Jack's Newswatch Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cunctator http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/06/30/merkel-pledges-tax-cuts-despite-rising-deficit/#comment-1364 Cunctator Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:17 +0000 http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=1734#comment-1364 Lowering taxes is always preferable to increased government spending. It would even be better if governments would either introduce a flat tax (as has happened in some Central European countries, to good effect) or simply abolished income tax and raised all revenues from consumption taxes. The problem with most so-called conservative governments -- Canada's included -- is that they fail to recognise that income is private property.  Their first task should be to defend private property, from which all our other freedoms derive. Lowering taxes is always preferable to increased government spending. It would even be better if governments would either introduce a flat tax (as has happened in some Central European countries, to good effect) or simply abolished income tax and raised all revenues from consumption taxes.

The problem with most so-called conservative governments — Canada’s included — is that they fail to recognise that income is private property.  Their first task should be to defend private property, from which all our other freedoms derive.

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