Aside from the economic reasons I favor smaller government, there’s an intellectual one, too. Namely, I fail to see why I should let someone who makes simple factual and mathematical errors make decisions on my life. Take, for example, this recent meme about Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that’s made its way around my Facebook newsfeed today:
Since this came from the senator’s official Facebook, I’m assuming he did say this (one of the difficult things about the Internet is it is difficult to verify the authenticity of quotes).
It’s hard to know where to start here since there is so much wrong in just these three sentences. I guess let’s start with the big picture:
The senator makes a huge mathematical mistake. He confuses relative with absolute. Yes, corporate income tax’s share of total government revenues has fallen from 33% to 9%, but that doesn’t mean that corporate taxes are any…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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