On Taxing the Rich

Wednesday morning around 9 AM, while traveling on I-95 between Rocky Mount and Weldon, NC, I spoke with the president of my company. She called me from Atlanta, Ga.

She had been on the road for nine days, drumming up new work, executing prior contracts, and ensuring the success of the company. She had flown into Atlanta from Montreal and was headed to California, before meeting me in Raleigh, NC on Thursday. I offered to pick her up at the airport, but she preferred to rent a car so she could stop at a motel for a shower, having not seen either a bath or bed for 48 hours.

Think about this woman's efforts next time you hear John Kerry's plans to tax the so-called wealthy in order provide credits to the poor. He is proposing nothing more subtle than the forcible taking of money from people working as hard as this woman, to be given to people with no more ambition than to sit on the porch and collect entitlements. And then he talks of the "working poor" as if the people whose capital he seeks to confiscate are not working for it.

It is a disgrace that the Democrat party finds itself rewarding slovenliness and penalizing ambition and diligence.