Finished my taxes this year. Such joy.
Along the way I noted that in the US tax code, investment income is categorized as “unearned income”.
An agricultural analogy: You plant a seed and watch it grow. You pick the fruit and eat it. You’ve just enjoyed an “unearned meal.”
[The cartoon is from here.]
Not original but “Teach a man to fish and feed him for life. Give him someone else’s fish and he’ll vote for you.”
Point is that we’re paying for a lot of votes.