The latest example is using “the taxpayers” as a synonym for the state. Will “the taxpayers” be protected by paying TARP dough back to the government, for example. Not only is that gang of thieves called the state not the taxpayers, it is the enemy of the taxpayers, their looter and their rip-off artist (and sometimes their jailer and murderer). In fact, though I’d hate to see corporate welfare queens keep their ill-gotten gains, the actual taxpayers are hurt if the government gets more money. We are always helped in the unlikely event that the government gets less money. It commits crimes, foreign and domestic, with every dime it gets.
UPDATE from Robert Katz: “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” – Samuel Adams, Letter to John Pitts, Jan. 21, 1776
9:38 am on May 9, 2009
