Old funny bags.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Income taxation - Brief article

Bill Maher is usually funny and fairly far left politically, so I was struck to hear him declare in March on his show on HBO that the rich "actually do pay the freight in this country." Especially in California, he said, "it's outrageous what we're paying--over 50 percent. I'm willing to pay my share, but yeah, it's ridiculous." This fortifies the impression that I've had for some time that the higher a media figure's income, the less liberal they become on the subject of income taxation. Remember during the 2008 campaign...