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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Anger Of The Left
by Thomas Sowell
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Lower tax rates have led to higher tax revenues many times, both before and since Keynes' statement -- the Kennedy tax cuts in the 1960s, the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s, and the recent Bush tax cuts that have led to record high tax revenues this April.

Budget deficits have often resulted from runaway spending but seldom from reduced tax rates.

Those on the other side may have different arguments. However, the question here is not why the left has different arguments, but why there is such anger.

Often it is an exercise in futility even to seek to find a principle behind the anger. For example, the left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high -- or higher -- incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

If the reason for the anger is a feeling that corporate CEOs are overpaid for their contributions, then there should be even more anger at people who get even more money for doing absolutely nothing, because they have inherited fortunes.

Yet how often has the left gotten worked up into high dudgeon over those who inherited the Rockefeller, Roosevelt or Kennedy fortunes? Even spoiled heirs like Paris Hilton don't really seem to set them off.

If it is hard to find a principle behind what angers the left, it is not equally hard to find an attitude.

Their greatest anger seems to be directed at people and things that thwart or undermine the social vision of the left, the political melodrama starring the left as saviors of the poor, the environment, and other busybody tasks that they have taken on.

It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders.

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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.
 
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Rewriting History
I seem to recall an almost pathological hatred and obsession with all things Clinton by the right-wing, even before Monica-gate. I submit that the failings of this administration far outweigh those of the Clinton administration but that the animosity of the left to Bush et.al is no greater than that exhibited by the right to the Clintonistas.

Dem Idiots
Before i found this site....i was thinking there were no sane people around. But Im afraid people of common sence are harder to find everyday. Every new illegal in this country is another vote for the defeatus dems.....all the collages are brainwashing kids to think liberal.....and the 04 election shows that people dont know or care for what there voting for....nothing but a bunch of think pink commies and mindless sheep that believe liberal media ....and there numbers are growing daily. After the 04 election i bought a piece of property in Costa Rica.....Maybe after the next liberal vote in....or possilbly after the mexican invasion ...i will build......then eventually get out of here permanatly.Good thinking (right) people can come down to my place anytime......invite is open....you commies stay here....
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