Update-August/11/2015
Malloy purses “progress” at the expense of ethics on Mileage Tax
Though the so-called “mileage tax” is still in the infancy of discussion and debate in Hartford – Connecticut citizens have strong reason for concern and outrage. This aggressive new tax initiative, secretly being discussed and debated in the halls of the Capitol by the Malloy administration and Democratic legislative leadership does nothing to address Connecticut’s skyrocketing expenditure costs underwriting an ever expansive administrative and bureaucratic state.
Intrinsic to the political aspirations of liberal governance is the denial of any limitation. A liberal, blue model, progressive agenda must continuously seek new sources of revenue to finance its ever expansive and intrusive nature. Big government is used to by our leaders to constitute control – even as it is ever at odds with our national founding. A mileage tax is no exception and must be denied; for it advances progressive taxation preventing equity and capital formation, the sine-qua-non of our Republic, a bulwark against aggressive authority.
Progressive taxation hits families with smaller income ratios harder and it is the primary driver of the very inequality that progressives “claim” to seek to fix. Most importantly, progressive taxation disrupts social mobility. It is nothing less than directed discrimination of the majority on a minority and it cannot be reconciled to the primacy afforded to the American experiment of liberty in equality.
A mileage tax would solidify the political propaganda that progressive taxation has become – namely the lifeblood for progressive, socialist agitation. A political, social view of governance affirming hypothesis’ unalloyed from the American Founding, namely a view of positive, statutory law born within an administrative approval seeking emancipation under the rhetorical banner of short-lived populism.
Make no mistake that the liberal redistributive state pursues progress at the expense of ethics. It does so because it denies any and all values un-conformed to its revolutionary spirit of an exhausted, easily ameliorated human person bereft of direction or self-discipline.
The liberal agenda of progressive taxation and redistribution seeks to enroll all under the rubric of achieving equality of sacrifice. This explains why liberals in the legislature and in the Malloy Administration are seeking such a proposition. Implementing such as tax to the entirety of citizens in the State of Connecticut, effectively damages the net remunerative value of each person’s labor, wage growth and productivity.
Peter Lumaj
Peter Lumaj is an attorney and the Former Republican Nominee for Connecticut Secretary of the State. He lives in Fairfield.
