Taxes are very good, but not for us
One thing that you learn serving in the Israeli army, and I believe in many other armies as well, is that the best type of leadership is leadership by example. If you want your subordinate to do something you have to do it yourself. I also believe it apply when educating children, and it is one of the main reasons I quitted smoking few years ago. This is a measure I also apply to professional busy bodies, are they swallowing the same pill to want to force on me. If the answer is no I know that the person is, at the very least, intellectually dishonest.
Obviously many of these people can explain why they should be exempt from the same measures they want to force on other. But these reasoning is a mere excuse for being morally wrong. Those who think that they entitled for more, simply because they are, are nothing but hypocrites. The list is obviously long but I hope that the Minnesota voters will not add another will not add another one to it this november.
Al Franken is famous advocate for social causes, such as universal health care, and he obviously thinks that he should be a Senator to force the wealthier people to pay higher share to fund these causes. He also think that he is exempt from the madison he want to force on others, simply because he is Al Franken:
We’ve covered the tax and legal compliance problems of Minnesota Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken over the past few weeks. First came the revelation of his failure to pay workers’ compensation insurance in New York. Then came the revelation of his failure to file corporate tax returns in California. This week it was revealed that Franken owes $70,000 in back taxes in 17 states.
The numbers involved in the last incident are striking. Observers naturally want to know if Franken’s tax problems result from an oversight or something more serious, and whether they are confined to the period acknowledged so far (2003-2006). Franken has refused to release his tax returns and filed for an extension on his 2007 return.
I’m sure we can do without him “leading” us, right?.
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