text: Like all the ADN columnists, Cliff glosses over the elephant in the room: The Dividend. The Socialist tag-team seems to think that it is a given that the Dividend will survive and that a broad-based tax is necessary in order to continue paying Dividends. The Dividend cannot survive - there is no moral, legal, or economic reason for it to continue if we really have arrived to the point we need more taxes. If the Left ever succeeds in taxing us to pay dividends, I would anticipate a number of lawsuits on the State Constitutionality for several different reasons. Ironically, the Left undermines itself in that the Dividend reduces available funding for true government social welfare programs.
  The Left's view of the Dividend as a wealth-redistribution instrument is simply Socialist demagoguery. I wish it would end.