Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Around 15 Percent

Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Around 15 Percent - NYTimes.com.

Here's one of the comments I posted to this article about the current tax structure:

In 1909, Winston Churchill made a series of speeches on, among other things, taxation. He was railing -- quite rationally -- against the huge benefits which the system, the structure, gave to landlords.

"A portion, in some cases the whole, of every benefit which is laboriously acquired by the community is represented in the land value, and finds its way automatically into the landlord's pocket. ... The landowner absorbs a share of almost every public and private benefit "

Churchill went on to say,

"I hope you will understand that when I speak of the land monopolist I am dealing more with the process than with the individual landowner. I have no wish to hold any class up to public disapprobation. I do not think that the man who makes money by unearned increment in land is morally a worse man than anyone else who gathers his profit where he finds it in this hard world under the law and according to common usage. It is not the individual I attack, it is the system. It is not the man who is bad, it is the law which is bad. It is not the man who is blameworthy for doing what the law allows and what other men do; it is the State which would be blameworthy were it not to endeavour to reform the law and correct the practice. We do not want to punish the landlord. We want to alter the law."

We need to alter the law.

We need to alter the law.

We need to elect people who recognize it as being in THEIR best interests, because it is in OUR best interests, to alter the law.

45 people "recommended" this comment.

That speech, incidentally, is online here