A time for villains.

[Scribbly]

What do you do when the victim doesn't want to be saved?

Looking around today, I'm struck by how most people are desperate to be victims. "What we need." They say, "Is strong leadership; like Mrs. Thatcher. Say what you like about her, she got stuff done. Not like this bunch, always talking about things."

In the aftermath of one of the greatest heists of all time, the people robbed stand around, and, after thinking about it for a few moments, gleefully demand that taxes are lowered; so that the very people who robbed them can have an easier time. It wouldn't do to get in the way of their next great scheme, after all.

"They'll create jobs!" They cry, as the companies they've worked for, which have been providing jobs for decades, collapse and die. "They'll promote growth!" After the most effective shrink-ray in reality has been turned on the economy by their very actions.

Ladies and gentlemen, I put it to you that it is a golden age for the villain. Our choices, as modern people, are simple. We can choose to bemoan our lot and try to rail against the baying masses, with all the success that we have had so far... or, when people are so desperate to turn away from the greatest crimes that have ever been committed, we can join the villains, and see how audacious we may be in our criminality.

They'll probably even thank us when we're done.

-Baron Demolition von Squid,
So who do you get a loan from to set up a bank, anyway?

[kingyak]

But tax cuts create jobs! I mean, isn't your first thought when you get some extra money to go out and hire someone to make something that there's absolutely no demand for?

[Doktor Howl]

This is why I have decided to join the villains.

Because people are dumb.

[Scribbly]

I finally understand the urge, Dok.

You give the people just what they want.

It is practically a public service.

[Doktor Howl]

I finally understand the urge, Dok.

You give the people just what they want.

It is practically a public service.

It's democracy in action.

[Doktor Howl]

Seriously, here.  How often does a man have to get mugged on the same street corner by the same people, before people call him a rube?

I have no sympathy for people who fall for this supply-side snake oil, anymore.  To hell with them.

[Placid Dingo]

Perhaps we are coming to a time for a better class of villain.

[kingyak]

You guys just don't understand economics.

If I invest $100 and have to pay 15% in capital gains taxes, I LOSE $15.

If I don't invest that money and don't make anything, I don't have to pay taxes, so I LOSE NOTHING.

It's really simple math.

[Doktor Howl]

You guys just don't understand economics.

If I invest $100 and have to pay 15% in capital gains taxes, I LOSE $15.

If I don't invest that money and don't make anything, I don't have to pay taxes, so I LOSE NOTHING.

It's really simple math.

[Scribbly]

Incidentally, the person who inspired this realization in me made the argument;

We should slash taxes and public services because this is what made Britain great under Thatcher.

There are no words. 

[Doktor Howl]

Incidentally, the person who inspired this realization in me made the argument;

We should slash taxes and public services because this is what made Britain great under Thatcher.

There are no words. 

Welcome to our nightmare.