As the headline says, whenever a political figure or a leftist claims that "paying taxes is patriotic," you will note that they are about to tell you that you should pay more. This is a fundamental law of the universe, to be known henceforth as Clark's Law of Taxational Patriotism: "When taxation is levied, the claim that paying taxes is an act of patriotism shall invariably be followed by a demand for a higher taxes.". //

The left seems to have this idea that the tax system is a dial they can turn up, that an increase in marginal rates will always return an increase in receipts, and that just isn't so.

The other thing the left doesn't get about taxes is that paying them isn't some noble, patriotic gesture. If it were, we wouldn't have an army of people on the public payroll making sure those taxes are paid. No, taxes are monies confiscated from the people by force of law, and if you doubt that, try not paying your taxes and see how long it takes for the government to send men with guns out looking for you. And if the left really believed that paying taxes was a noble, patriotic gesture, they'd pay more voluntarily. They never do, so there you are.

Taxation is, at best, a necessary evil. //

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

And no country ever taxed itself into prosperity. Remember that next time you're confronted by some whining leftie claiming that paying taxes is patriotic.