Everything Is Belong to Us

I chafe at the typical liberal language on tax cuts...that they "cost" the government. Tax cuts are costs only in the very slimmest sense of opportunity costs. Sure, more and more tax dollars could be sucked into the Treasury, I suppose (let's ignore Hauser's Law here), but it is obvious that the real cost, bearing a reduction of resources, is to the taxpayer and the government is the recipient of the resources, usually known as an "earner". Thus the language is offensive to logic and sense, but this takes the perversion to its heights: “You have just witnessed a great bank robbery,’’ Leimberg adds. “The doors of the Treasury have been thrown open. The Republicans have robbed the bank and the estate and gift tax (change) is the jewel of the robbery.” You see, your wealth is actually the property of the US Treasury, it is sitting in the vaults as we speak, in tangible form. I bet you didn't know that. Wait of course you did, because you instructed the Republicans to actually go to a physical location and physically remove your wealth from the rightful possession of the US Treasury! And this Leimberg guy is apparently "a noted trust and estate lawyer". Who would hire a guy to plan an estate who thinks that all your money is actually the governments?

Typical progressive authoritarian: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and, apparently, Ownership is Theft.