Two ways to starve the beast
The fairyboys at NRO have been wailing and gnashing their fine Royal Doulton teeth ... ever so delicately of course ... over the death of some entity named Dorothy. Derb has gone so far as to attempt ritual suttee over Saint Dorothy's funeral pyre [built, of course, with the finest selected lignum aquila heartwood, appraised by Sotheby's Pyrewood Ltd at 3 million gold guineas per Imperial board foot.]

Now the extravagance is about to be curtailed. As when a firm goes bankrupt, some creditors will get paid, some won’t. It’s a matter of priorities.

So who gets paid and who gets stiffed? That’s what this is going to come down to, nolens volens.

I say stiff the geezers. Not many of us are productive, anyway. Sure, a few of us did great things in the past — worked hard, took chances, fought in wars — but that’s water under the bridge. The world belongs to young people. If our government benefits are a drag on the economy, I say cut ’em. If our wizened hearts, livers, and lungs have reached their spec limits, let’s go out with dignity.

Is there any honest, patriotic geezer who isn’t troubled by the thought that his own demands on the public fisc for his own stodgy comforts and creaking ailments are reducing the opportunites for young people to live and work in a vigorous national economy?

This doesn't make a lick of sense from any angle, but it's especially annoying from a supposedly Reaganite perspective.

You want to starve the beast, right? Well, there are two ways to starve a beast.

(1) Don't put food in his cage.

(2) Steal the food that's already in his cage.

Under High Priest Grover, the conservatives have settled into an absolute and sole insistence on (1), ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!! ZERO TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!!

Look at it in a practical sense.

Which of the two starving methods is more available to the ordinary citizen?

The only legal way you can avoid taxes is to become poor and have lots of kids, or become super-rich and have lots of investments. I assume the chanting of the Groverite mantra gives you the delusion that you are already rich, or perhaps the delusion that you will inevitably become rich. Like the Prosperity Gospel of Jim and Tammy Faye.

But for ordinary folks, stealing the beast's food supply is much more practical. All you have to do is claim Social Security at 62, then live as long as possible to drain the Federal account as much as possible. Use as much Medicare as you can. Starve that fucker! Get some of your own back, dammit!

The more we take, the less remains for tyrannical murderous foreign wars and the tyrannical domestic suicide mission of the EPA.
  ¶ 9:49 AM