Budget crisis follows Malloy into Clinton campaign event

[Igel]

10. With taxation there is no "ask."

There is commanding, at gun point and "jail-point"--you pay, or your property is confiscated and you're sent to jail. If you don't vacate your property state marshals arrive with firearms to make sure you vacate or the marshal's garnish your accounts.

There is tax avoidance, which may be legal but isn't expedient for some groups and has been dubbed a kind of moral crime and subject to extensive shaming.

There is lobbying, which are all dubbed "corruption" and the top 5% or 10% shouldn't be allowed that constitutional right. They aren't really part of "the people," meaning, I guess, they're not really people.

There are attempts at getting out the vote and persuading voters to limit tax increases, which is a kind of public speech that the top 5% or 10% shouldn't be allowed to engage in according to many, it would seem. Again, they're not really people.

I don't see "ask" as a viable option. I mean, I guess the governor could put out a call asking people (or at least the wealthy, if not actual people) to donate to the cause. I suspect that's not what the writer means. So I take "ask" to be a weasel word to mask either government authority or rhetorical claims that rights should be denied. I think words that are manipulative should be unmasked. Honesty and transparency matter, esp. from politicians whose supporters value honesty and transparency.