In this mornings Union Leader democrat Mark Fernald makes what he assumes is a reasoned appeal for why the change in income distributions or dividends for LLC’s is not a tax, is actually fair, and why all the objectors should be quiet.  But he makes his case based on assumptions only a pro government liberal could make.

The broad premise of his comments is the idea that everyone needs to pay their fair share of taxes.  Well that is a fascinating charade.  There is nothing in the democrat observers book of taxes that has the slightest thing at all to do with fairness or equal taxation.  The tax code serves two purposes to liberals.  First, it feeds the endless growth of government by milking every teat it can get it’s hands on until they are raw.   Second, it is always wielded as a weapon in the epic battle of class and income warfare.  Where the lower income earners in any class are rewarded, and those above must be punished, without concern for any other consequences.

Mr. Fernald proves this point by capping off his case for “equality” by unbuttoning his rhetorical trousers and showing us his backside; he reminds us parenthetically that the democrat run  legislature is actually working on a bill that would define “reasonable compensation” as if defining compensation is actually a reasonable role of government.

 Mr. Fernald clearly believes this appropriate as any proper tax and spender would.  But he ignores reality and the costs associated with any of it just to satisfy his parties ceaseless obsession with finding revenue with which to feed the beast of government.  Put simply, he ignores why the government is seeking more taxes in favor of justifying a statutory taking of someone else’s earning, as if that point has no merit in the debate. 

Every penny taxed from any business will appear downstream either in the increased cost of goods and services or, in depressed employment and slow or no wage growth.  Since over 90% of the employers in the state are small businesses, many of them LLC’s, this added expense for growing government will affect the standard of living of a majority of residents.

But Mark Fernald doesn’t really give a damn about that.  He’s content to provide cover for a wasteful unaccountable left wing state agenda (not just by admitting that he too must pay a tax) that spends before it taxes simply because his name comes with a “(D)” after it.   He would just as gladly support an additional reduction in your standard of living (sales tax, income tax, any tax) if it added to the state treasury, so government can grow at its own pleasure, regardless of your ability to pay for it, completely indifferent to the impact it might have on your life. 

So while Mr. Fernald tries to paint with convincing brush strokes the completed image is nothing new.  It is a portrait of the state house growing larger on the backs of the people of New Hampshire.  And nowhere in his portfolio—or that of any other democrat in New Hampshire it seems–can “fairness” or “equality” equate to lowering someone else’s taxes to achieve parity. 

You have to undestand that to democrats, it is not really your money.  It is simply revenue the State has–up to this point–allowed you to keep.  So the idea of shrinking state government, so that the business people and citizens who earned that money might then freely create the kind of growth and opportunity they value for themselves and those around them, has been reduced to a fairy tale told to liberal children at bed time, and to students the unions devotedly convince your democrat legislators to keep trapped in the public schools system.