WHY NOT TAKE ALL OF ME?

One university professor of sociology advocates a flat income tax rate of 80%. He says this would enable America to become a really great society with free health care for all, free education through college, federal housing loans, and lots of subsidies for truly needy citizens.

The professor insists that taxpayers would keep right on striving and working at their occupations despite the nearly confiscatory taxation policies he wants to have the government impose on us. That's doubtful, his plan is flawed.

Consider that taxation and liberty are opposites. In this sweet land of liberty, money earned belongs to the recipient and is nobody's business. Privacy is liberty's first cousin. Where is my liberty if they tax away 80% of the rewards for my effort?

The concept smacks of a socialist state where everything is painted gray, stores run out of essentials, government billboards urge us to hustle, and people pretend to work.

The individual is sovereign, not a cog of the state. Prof, if you and Uncle Sam ever arrange to steal an 80% tax out of my paycheck, then why not take all of me? I'll soon be gone to Andorra, where the income tax rate is zero.

Liberty and the absence of taxes are mutually interdependent.

IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.