I heard this open letter to a generic tax'n'spend senator at the end of Cavuto's show last week, but now it's on line. My favorite bit:

I'd sooner trust the single mother raising kids, struggling to put food on the table with her money, than "you" with her money.

I'd like you to tell her to her face that she'd be irresponsible with that money.

That it's reckless for her to spend some extra dough on her kids. Reckless for her to put a little extra cash in the bank. And reckless for her to treat herself and not you.

I'd like you to tell her she's too ignorant to know what's best.

I'll tell you this, you tax-sucking, boondoggle-spending, pork-barrel-pushing fiscal pimp: she has more common fiscal sense in her pinky than you have in your entire rolodex of feeding-at-the-trough lobbyists.

Yeah, but if we want government "services," we all have pay for them.

/Sarcasm Off/

As Milton Friedman wrote recently, "we do not get our money's worth for the roughly 40% of our income that is spent by government--federal, state and local--supposedly on our behalf, or the additional 10% or so of income that residents or businesses spend in response to government mandates and regulation."

I totally disagree with him it should be crackwhore not pimp.

Didn't Heinlein say "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for."

My favorite poli sci prof once said the most frightening concept he ever heard of was "we get the government we deserve."

It wasn't heinlein who said "be glad you don't get all the government you pay for", it was will rogers. Heinlein quoted him in "expanded universe", in the chapter where he talks about the level of governmental debt and spending. Heinlein especially made the point that Rogers made this comment in the 30's; Rogers would probably be horrified at the amount spent today.

I saw this tirade first hand. I swear I thought Neil was gonna pop a blood vessel. I wish he would turn loose more, I LOVE IT!!

Add to this something I just heard on the radio. Only one country has implemented a flat tax similar to what Forbes proposed... Russia!? at 13% although I don't know if it eliminates those under a certain income level. I'm still not sure what to make of the fact that Arizona is the only state that voted for Forbes.

Another point... apparently Russia doubled! revenue when they went to the flat tax.