A refreshingly frank commentary on a trite political ploy

This is from the magnificent "Nerve" site of the SC Policy Council -- and what with all its stark honesty, wouldn't you know it?

http://tinyurl.com/q9vvy53
Nine Reasons You Should Hate Tax Referendums

To see anybody use the word "hate" positively and correctly these days is just incredible. The Beatles convinced the world that "All You Need is Love" in the 1960s, paving the way for an over-arching notion that hate is evil, period, and never needed, period. (Mind you, the people that preach this are often enthusiastic haters themselves -- of people they label hatemongers, for instance.)

The Bible tells us to love what's good and hate what's evil. Why is this verse never expounded by today's pulpiteers? In a sense it's the key to the whole volume. Politicians' games, gambits and strategems can indeed be hateful, and it's high time decent people started hating the right ones, because they are predatory.

I was surprised to see this piece for another reason: initiative and referendum" is one of the things considered essential for freedom under and state government. It used to be so in my early political years circa 1990, anyway -- and hasn't been heard of much since? Just goes to show that very few things are absolutely black or white in import. That applies to I&R generally, but not, obviously, to the tax variety.

In a sense this reminds me of an irony regarding hot issues at large. "Abortion," for instance, is a subject that some in both government and activist circles seek to put off by saying "The fedgov has no business handling it -- it's a matter for the individual states." Suddenly the fedgov isn't the almighty god over everything in the sheeple's life, wholesale? It has LIMITS? Even if the naysayers are right, I suspect many of them of doing a bit of dodging.

As in our subject today, tax referenda, there are wrongful efforts by politicians to get others doing their heavy lifting. Another case that comes to mind is the domestic invasion. Washington's job is to defend us from all threats that the states can't handle better individually, and this scourge is definitely one of them. But what's DC's response to this never-ending crisis it's brought on us?

Get employers busy.checking people's status -- not the government bureaucracies that exist to address that situation (preferably at the borders, airports etc.). Force another layer of controversial volunteer work on business. Hey, they've stood still for how many past blasts of the stuff, featuring the star of the show -- the withholding tax?

There's that word again -- "tax". How did it come to dominate things in this insane, ubiquitous manner?

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