Taxes and weed are fun

The Post printed a column from a new writer, Tina Dupuy. The brief description of the author stated that she was as award winning writer, a claim I can only reluctantly acknowledge after reading her article. I am still uncertain whether the piece was tongue in cheek or a serious effort. It was silly enough I could go either way. Could be a serious attempt by a Liberal since Liberals never seem to have a grasp of basic economics and will always argue the leftist point of view regardless of reality. Or, given the apparent absence of reasoned thinking, it could be strictly satirical. She said "we" (apparently not her) are inconsistent regarding paying taxes. That is, we hate paying taxes yet are sanguine about paying for cable TV. She said our dislike of taxes is "an odd character trait in Americans." Seems to me that statement is odd. Her rationalization that we should pay more taxes seems to be mainly because Belgians pay more that us. Great logic. Never mind that raising taxes, any taxes, would be the worst thing to do in this struggling economy. She says, "For politicians, raising taxes is taboo." Miss Dupuy needs to pay better attention to events; bureaucrats need money to wield poser. The Democrat party has raised taxes every time they have gained control of congress and the Republicans also a few times. The Obama regime is raising all manner of taxes the first of the year, including the confiscatory death tax, which steals the savings of the deceased - money that has already been taxed. The Obama regime is also letting the Bush tax cuts expire - which is literally a big tax increase. To add to the inanity of Ms. Dupuy's piece she seems to be proposing that weed be legalized so that the greedy government can tax it.