"We may not know all of Johnson's positions yet," writes Mike H of Letters in Bottles, but despite not knowing anything about what Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson stands for (besides freedom), Mike H thinks Ron Johnson is supremely qualified to serve in the United States Senate, simply because Johnson is a business owner who's enjoyed some success.
However, as The Chief astutely notes, on the one issue Johnson has said anything about - freedom - Johnson seems to equate lower taxes with freedom in a rather simplistic manner:
"The most basic right," Johnson says, "is the right to keep your property." Remembering the golden age when, thanks to Ronald Reagan, the top income tax rate was 28 percent, Johnson says: "For a brief moment we were 72 percent free."
By the logic implied by Johnson, one cannot truly be on hundred percent free unless one pays nothing in taxes, but the down side to Johnson's rationale is that in order for the citizens of the United States to be truly "free," the government couldn't collect any tax revenue. No doubt the lack of tax revenue would create some interesting quandaries for anti-tax conservatives, such as how to fund defense spending (always a favorite among the right wing) or how to keep those parts of government that are necessary (like Congress and the Supreme Court) operational.
Given the amateurishness of Ron Johnson's freedom equals taxes position, I can understand now why it's taken him so long to articulate where he stands on the issues folks here in Wisconsin are concerned about.