The stupidity is just rampant in the Frank Knotts post I warned you away from reading yesterday. Basically Frank talks himself out of liking the SC’s APF ” Adequate Public Facilities” plan which very sensibly requires “developers to provide all needed improvements to roads and other infrastructure needs before or concurrent with the building of there developments.” Makes sense right? Wrong.
Turns out, AFP is really an evil insidious tax. Here is the DelawarePolitics logic.
Taxes are evil because taxes <i>take money out of my pocket (c)</i> that I could use to buy a new flat screen TV made in China. So instead of raising taxes it SEEMS like a good idea to make developers provide for infrastructure – but wait. THAT is a tax because they’ll charge me more if they have to pay for a traffic light, AND that will take money out of my pocket (c) that I could use to buy a flat screen TV made in China.
So we need to wait until magical unicorns come down from heaven and THEY will pay for our infrastructure because eveything else is an evil tax. – paraphrase by me
You see. Since taxes are evil and everything is a tax, we don’t have many options.
All this would be funny and a kind of freaky sideshow, IF IT WERE NOT MAINSTREAM REPUBLICAN THINKING. I mean the GOP has gone off its nut. If you don’t believe me take Art Downs’ word for it in the comment thread from that post.
Folks who believe that Big Goverment can solve all problems never found fault with a tax that they fancied someone else would pay. Quite often these economic illiterates appeal to other dullards with schemes to ‘tax business’. This only turns business into tax collectors as they pass the burden on to the consumer.
Good bye infrastructure. Good bye jobs. Good bye planning. Good bye quality of life. We can’t afford you because, in the end, you are all a tax.