"Creeping Galtism"

DougJ writes about "Creeping Galtism" at Balloon Juice, and skewers the movement extraordinarily well:

I think there's been too much emphasis on what idiots these people are and not enough on how childish they are. Quitting work because of a slight tax increase isn't akin to anything from any sort of philosophy, not even one as crude and simplistic as Ayn Rand's; it's more akin to a child's decision to take his ball and go home. It's probably worse, though, since when a typical ten year-old gets home, stops crying, and wipes his nose, he doesn't then fantasize about how the world will now suffer from the loss of his inestimable brilliance.

(If the name John Galt doesn't ring any bells for you, he's the protagonist Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged.)