If you ever edit that article, I suggest you rephrase this part:
“If you want to steal money, you rob banks, because that is where the money is. If you want to raise money to fund valuable services, it is natural to think about how to tax the very rich, because they hold a large and growing share of all income and wealth.”
I don’t know if that juxtaposition is intentional, but it all but implies “taxation is theft” and doesn’t fit into an otherwise politically neutral piece.
If I thought taxation was theft (or cared if it was) that might have come up somewhere else in the post.
The reference is to this story:
“In a famous apocryphal story, Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”
“doesn’t fit into an otherwise politically neutral piece.”
It probably looks politically neutral to you because you support taxing the rich and believe it is not theft. In fact being unpolitical is pretty impossible in this area.
As someone who didn’t get the reference, that section struck me as odd as well, though mostly because my immediate reaction was ‘That’s not true. Most thiefs don’t rob banks, they rob people in the street or occasionally shops instead, i.e. they go for the ‘tractable’ rather than the ‘high-value’ targets.′
If you ever edit that article, I suggest you rephrase this part:
“If you want to steal money, you rob banks, because that is where the money is. If you want to raise money to fund valuable services, it is natural to think about how to tax the very rich, because they hold a large and growing share of all income and wealth.”
I don’t know if that juxtaposition is intentional, but it all but implies “taxation is theft” and doesn’t fit into an otherwise politically neutral piece.
If I thought taxation was theft (or cared if it was) that might have come up somewhere else in the post.
The reference is to this story:
“In a famous apocryphal story, Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”
“doesn’t fit into an otherwise politically neutral piece.”
It probably looks politically neutral to you because you support taxing the rich and believe it is not theft. In fact being unpolitical is pretty impossible in this area.
As someone who didn’t get the reference, that section struck me as odd as well, though mostly because my immediate reaction was ‘That’s not true. Most thiefs don’t rob banks, they rob people in the street or occasionally shops instead, i.e. they go for the ‘tractable’ rather than the ‘high-value’ targets.′