Can They Pay Our Video Rental Fees, Too?

... and our dry cleaning bills and our car repair bills and our credit card fees and ...

House Democrats announced a plan yesterday that would force the richest 2 million U.S. taxpayers to shoulder much of the cost of an expansion of the nation's health-care system, by imposing a surtax of as much as 5.4 percent on income above $350,000 a year.

As California has discovered, this works until it doesn't. When you punish the productive enough, they either quit producing or they leave. After that, you're left with printing Confederate money to cover your bills.

Here, a successful plumbing contractor is punished by his congressman.