Over at sister blog The Locker Room, Mitch Kokai posts an excerpt from a Fortune magazine piece by Nina Easton with comments from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about taxing the rich. This is definitely worth the read. Gov. Christie is correct.

I ask this of the progressives who endorse imposing higher tax rates on the producers and/or the wealthy: what will you say when progressives decide YOU make “too much” money that you don’t “need”? Based on my reporting for Carolina Journal (see page 6 of the June issue linked here) very few people are willing to voluntarily pay more taxes than they owe, as evidenced by the paltry balance in the federal government’s gift fund, which receives voluntary payments to the treasury.

So where are the progressives who endorse higher tax rates? Why won’t progressives send in more money voluntarily? Why do progressives seek to impose higher rates on others via government taxing power, but then keep the fruits of their own labor in their own pockets?