
The Legend of Dennis Moore, The Real Evil of Government
We all know the legend of Robin Hood. According to the story related to us when we were children, he “stole from the rich and gave to the poor.” Actually, that is not what he did. He stole from the government, the tax collectors for King John (what gives it away is the “King” part) and gave the money back to the taxpayers, that is, the people from whom the tax collectors took the money. Robin Hood was not a socialist, he was a tax protestor.
Dennis Moore, the legend whose story is told by the Monty Python players, is the story of the real evil of government. Monty Python always had the best political humor. Who can forget the parody of worthless government bureaucracies as portrayed by Ministry of Silly Walks? But Dennis Moore is often forgotten. Dennis Moore, we are told, began to steal from the rich to give to the poor, but he never stopped stealing from his original targets. Soon the rich from whom Dennis Moore stole were poor, and so, according to Monty Python, Dennis Moore then stole from the poor and gave to the rich (“stupid b*tch” as Monty Python tells us).
That is the evil of government. Taxes are a form… Read More