Posted on 01/15/2009 5:53:47 AM PST by Invisigoth
Contrary to popular opinion, the key line in understanding the movie Forrest Gump was not “life is like a box of chocolates.” It was “stupid is as stupid does.” For a stupid person, Forrest lived pretty smart. The so-called intelligent people around him? Not so much.
And if you want to understand the ongoing fiscal soap opera that is Uncle Sam, you need to grasp a derivative concept – “stupid is as stupid taxes.” And on that score, the Obama Administration is getting off to a less than stellar start, IQ-wise.
Stupid tax move number one: Turning the Internal Revenue Service into a welfare agency. Even before the stimulus plan, Sleek Barry was on a course to transform America into a minority-taxpayer nation. Now, to finish the job, he is proposing to hand out new $1,000 credits to people who don’t pay taxes.
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Are you dumber than an Odummer?
O-logic: The dead can pay the non-productive through the mediating hand of government via the estate tax. It’s like perpetual motion — whee!
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