Why is the right not making the moral case for lower taxes?

There was an article recently in the increasingly woke but still useful New Scientist which attempted to gauge the degree to which luck was responsible for who we are and, hence, an individual’s life circumstances. I think it came in third place after genes and the environment – which are also both down to luck, really, I suppose. The thesis seemed to be we pay too little attention to the role of luck when considering why one man is a millionaire and the other is a lavatory attendant or a book reviewer.

I would beg to differ. Ascribing luck to one’s unfortunate position in life is very prevalent indeed and is as left-wing an argument as blaming the class system or the colour of one’s skin (although with slightly less justification). Anything which devolves responsibility from the individual to something else – especially, perhaps, blind fate – is necessarily a left-wing argument, as it eschews any notion of bad life choices, a lack of diligence, inherent stupidity, wickedness, idleness, failed education, torpor, a dearth of imagination and so on.