The GOP Loves Private Taxes

You know, interest, rents, royalties, and dividends. That money doesn’t grow on trees.

I’m still thinking about this quote I dug up from a classical economist named John Stuart Mills. Classical economists were of the mind that capital should be a social good and that the purpose of capital is to improve the lives of all who participate in a capitalist economy. Here is that quote that I’m still thinking about:

If some of us grow rich in our sleep, where do we think this wealth is coming from? It…