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A hilarious article by Matt Towery
Sep. 18th, 2008 07:31 amAs I'd already said, I have a lot of time for Matt Towery. He is one of the smartest - of the few really smart and insightful - conservative commentators, and, along with Paul Greenberg, Paul Weyrich and Suzanne Fields, one with the closest resemblance to a full-time member of the human race. But with this brilliant, straight-faced comment on the wealth tax, he has surpassed himself: http://townhall.com/Columnists/MattTowery/2008/09/18/a_very_unamerican_answer_to_solving_our_financial_woes?page=full.
He also, on the serious side, takes a good whack at what I regard as one of the most corrupting aspects of super-wealth: the possibility to operate as a one-man, supranational political party, and to do so permanently, even after death, through so-called foundations. Unlike Mr.Towery, I do not think that such foundations as Bill Gates' do, on the whole, a lot of good. Bill Gates is a notorious supporter of abortion across the board and anti-population-growth policies, following, in this, a long and dishonourable tradition. From the plutocrats' support of Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes (both women whose personal character had to be kept carefully hidden from the press), to the rebellion against Humanae Vitae (orchestrated and funded by American plutocratic foundations), to the dead hand that drives so many universities, the power of wealthy foundations has been constantly employed in an antinomian, anti-life and relativistic direction. Indeed, if one joined up the dots and wrote a history of plutocratic pseudo-charity, I think it would turn out that the real push towards the current state of society and culture did not come from any political party or movement - not even Communism or Fascism - but from unaccountable, silent, super-rich individuals and their irresponsible Foundations.
He also, on the serious side, takes a good whack at what I regard as one of the most corrupting aspects of super-wealth: the possibility to operate as a one-man, supranational political party, and to do so permanently, even after death, through so-called foundations. Unlike Mr.Towery, I do not think that such foundations as Bill Gates' do, on the whole, a lot of good. Bill Gates is a notorious supporter of abortion across the board and anti-population-growth policies, following, in this, a long and dishonourable tradition. From the plutocrats' support of Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes (both women whose personal character had to be kept carefully hidden from the press), to the rebellion against Humanae Vitae (orchestrated and funded by American plutocratic foundations), to the dead hand that drives so many universities, the power of wealthy foundations has been constantly employed in an antinomian, anti-life and relativistic direction. Indeed, if one joined up the dots and wrote a history of plutocratic pseudo-charity, I think it would turn out that the real push towards the current state of society and culture did not come from any political party or movement - not even Communism or Fascism - but from unaccountable, silent, super-rich individuals and their irresponsible Foundations.
