Posted on 04/29/2020 9:14:52 AM PDT by Starman417
How about a quick break from The Kung Flu Virus and the Boogie Wuhan Flu? A few weeks ago in the Sunday Washington Post Adam Cohen dropped an opinion piece about the Supreme Court (SC) over the last half century. Apparently, because the SC has been making rulings based on the Constitution instead of some bizarre Marxist agenda, it's hurt average Americans. As much as I'd love to go piece by piece through every bit of the stupidity of this post, things are still busy in Bobworld and I'll keep this to the most insane assertions. First up (emphasis mine, link is from original post):
As for the nation’s nonprogressive tax system, a significant portion of blame lies with the court’s unraveling of campaign finance laws starting in the 1970s: These decisions rely on the dubious claim that money is speech and therefore deserves constitutional protection. The court’s rulings gave more political power than ever to the rich, who used that influence to drive down their own tax rates.Higher taxes on rich people are popular — in one recent poll, 76 percent of registered voters wanted them to pay more. But wealthy campaign contributors have been blunt about conditioning future donations on lower tax rates. When the 2017 Trump tax bill was pending, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned colleagues that if Republicans did not get it passed, the “financial contributions will stop” and incumbents would lose their jobs. When lawmakers voted, more of them listened to their contributors than to their constituents.
At one time I would have also done a dive into the survey, its wording, as well as methodology. The link itself jumps back to an early 2019 puff piece in Politico attempting to fluff for Fauxcahontas. Luckily, simple reality debunks the entire survey without my even having to click through and examine it. Eight years ago I took a look at not a study, but cold hard facts as to who goes through the perfectly legal practice known as tax avoidance. For any non-Economics geeks out there wondering what the difference between ta avoidance and tax evasion is, I'll illustrate with a simple example. Tax evasion is failing to report legitimately taxable income, and is a crime. Tax avoidance could be just crossing state lines to make a purchase where the sales tax is lower. This practice is quite legal, and here are a few examples of prominent Leftists who have engaged in this practice: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and the entire freakin' state of Massachusetts. One other prominent Leftist included in my post from eight years ago? That's right, Fauxcahontas herself!
But if you think that this is old news and we should look at Leftists today, look no further than reaction from two groups. President Trump called on overseas freeloaders to pay their fair share of taxes, and they were none too happy about it. Even here at home, when President Trump "closed some loopholes" (That was Obama's favorite term for raising taxes, why not bring it back now?) to prevent lower income Americans from having to subsidize the bad choices at the ballot box made by the wealthy, naturally those wealthy Leftists hit the roof. So can we move past this lie that somehow The Supreme Court is the reason that wealthy Leftists are hypocrites? Great!
One more point needed to be addressed today. Back to Cohen's article:
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
Of course we're required to report all such purchases on our state tax return and pay the tax...but somehow I always forget to do it!
“Of course we’re required to report all such purchases on our state tax return and pay the tax...but somehow I always forget to do it!”
Same here, but I don’t do a lot of online shopping. So the state of CA isn’t being hurt that badly by me.
Yet.
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