So says Daniel Mitchell of The Cato Institute, here:
"If you’re an amoral person with political connections, it’s possible to make a lot of money.
"Warren Buffett lined his pockets by making a government-subsidized investment in Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.
"The rest of us suffered and he got richer, but the left seems to be okay with that perverse form of redistribution because he supports class-warfare tax hikes. Sort of like buying an indulgence in the Middle Ages."
I really like that analogy with the church because it speaks to the failure of all idealist conceptions to deliver on what they promise. This is as true of socialism as it is of capitalism, of fascism as it is of Christianity. All offer a promised land which never seems to arrive, but you have to ask yourself who thought this stuff up.
Like beer to Homer Simpson, it is we who are the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.
