Man Goes Into A Classroom

7-24-03

From time to time I must remind myself that emotion over rules logic…it’s deep down in our limbic brain…our inner caveman

A man goes into a classroom of kindergarteners and asks “hands up all who want free ice cream”, everyone raises their hand. One precocious little boy says “can I have a tax cut with that”.

To paraphrase Sara Lee “nobody doesn’t like taxes”. Geez Louise I hate taxes, hate the thought of them, hate them as much as a Republican on the 4th of July. Yes sirey Bob I hate taxes with the best of them…there goes that limbic inner cave man again. Actually its part and parcel of the American psyche hard wired in our DNA since the Boston Tea party.

At some point isn’t all this talk about taxes enough. Wont just one politician tell us the truth? Sorry to tell you this boys but taxes are the necessary evil that greases the wheel; the glue that holds the whole shebang together. Nobody ever lost an election grousing about taxes. But its time for some original thinking, for some non limbic rational thought, some discourse, some systematic discussion about tax policy…not the piecemeal tax code changes that lead to unintended (and sometimes intended) consequences; its time for some creative long-term thinking about taxation…something that doesn’t start with I have a sexy little late model tax cut I’d like to sell you; something that talks to the greatness we can create when we turn off the limbic brain and don’t listen to the inner caveman…”say do you want a tax cut with that mastadon”?