the point is still missed
it's not about what is taxed, or the excuses why. If your government is so damned bloated that it needs to steal more from it's population, then there's a problem. If government officials are giving away services in order to buy themselves continued reelection, then cannot afford those services without increasing the ripoff of citizens, then *that's* where the problem is.
Instead of scoffing at the misleading title of a taxation increase report, or justifying it by showing dozens of other money grab proposals, or excusing it by spinning reports of government shedding some bloat as a bad thing, we need to focus at the core problem: government is too big, getting itself involved in too many things, insinuating itself into more lives, and exercising way too much control with it's bureaucracies. All the evils done by faceless cogs in the machine are enabled by allowing the government machine to get too big. And when it cannot support itself, it justifies even more oppression, by taking money from those who need government less, to provide for those who've given more control to Big Government and Nanny States.
I don't know about most of you, but I wanted to grow up and move out from the parents so I could control my own destiny. I don't want to be forced to move back in with a government nanny who's going to tell me how to live for "my own good", for efficiency and cost saving measures. Nor do I want to be penalized for this choice, to reward those who've chosen to stay "at home", chosen to accept curfews, what friends they can hang with, and what's for dinner-subjects to be controlled by an undeserving, arrogant elite.
This goes for bailouts as well. And it goes everywhere, not just Bloombergland, but everywhere in America.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
