Taxes are like a jar of peanut butter
Imagine a jar of peanut butter. Now imagine that the cost of all the things the government does to be the peanut butter. It does not matter how you spread that peanut butter around. You may make as many PBJ sandwiches as you wish. The same amount of peanut butter exists. The total costs are the same. You can smear peanut butter around the entire world like a monkey with scat and the costs are the same. This is a metaphor for all of government spending. When the government taxes the evil oil companies its like smearing peanut butter on them. Read more…