Welcome to Grover Norquist’s wet dream

Sure this article about Mexican tax reform from the Arizona Republic is an interesting topic, but I just kept thinking about how much our anti-tax people would prefer the Mexican system. Corporations pay almost no taxes. Individuals pay almost no taxes. There are large cartels owned by a small group of people that control much of the country’s capital.

It is interesting that this point is not made more often, but the market utopia put forth by the anti-tax crowd is decidedly third world. It is the de facto system for most third world nations. The thing to remember is their market utopia is not really ‘market’ oriented, so much as a power grab for their friends. They don’t want lots of competition… When their friends, supporters and cronies are winning they say it is competition, but when they cannot compete they want help from the government through no bid contracts or government give aways.

They want to gather power, not create a more competitive economy. They want to suck on the public teat when it suits them and then rail against the use of public money when it decreases their power or advantage in other areas. They do not care about our country. They do not want to ready our society for the realities of global economics. They don’t want to see us stronger. They have only one purpose, increasing their own power, everyone else be damned.