Taxes = Civilization

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1223697600&en=ce240ad3162ac5ac&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

And please also don’t tell me she is an “energy expert.” She is an energy expert exactly the same way the king of Saudi Arabia is an energy expert — by accident of residence. Palin happens to be governor of the Saudi Arabia of America — Alaska — and the only energy expertise she has is the same as the king of Saudi Arabia’s. It’s about how the windfall profits from the oil in their respective kingdoms should be divided between the oil companies and the people.