I’ve always been stumped by something. Every time a Republican proposes a tax cut, a helpful Democrat or two will point out that such a tax cut will take money from the poor and give it to the rich.

Well, I finally decided to perform a mathematical analysis, and you know what? It turns out the Democrats are right! Let me show you.

First, we know that Give and Take are opposites. In logical terms,
Give(x) = !Take(x) [1]
Take(x) = !Give(x) [2]

Further, let us denote the proper tax state as the opposite of a Tax Cut:
Taxes = !TaxCut [3]

Of course, we all know that the proper role of taxes is to take from the rich and to give to the poor:
Taxes = Take(Rich) AND Give(Poor)

Now we do a substitution:
!TaxCut = Take(Rich) AND Give(Poor) (using [3])

Finally, we negate each term:
!(!TaxCut) = !Take(Rich) AND !Give(Poor)

And a final substitution:
TaxCut = Give(Rich) AND Take(Poor)

QED.

Pre-emptive strike against smarty-pantses and wet blankets: yes, I know I made some logical errors. It’s comedy, see?

Posted in uncategorized on December 29th, 2004 by Thibodeaux | RSS 2.0 |