Posted on 02/04/2009 4:57:12 AM PST by kellynla
During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying your taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. "It's time to be patriotic," he told America's putative tax slackers. When asked whether he might be questioning the patriotism of people who don't want higher taxes, Biden, as is his wont, took things to the next rhetorical level. Forget patriotism, insisted Joe, paying higher taxes is a religious obligation.
The man who gave an average of $369 a year to charity over the previous decade fulfills his religious obligations by cutting a tax check -- a check he's required to cut by law.
Now it's always perilous to take Biden's statements too seriously, but it does seem eminently fair to say that his comments reflect a common, if not universal, attitude among Democrats. Taxes aren't a "necessary evil" so much as a joyous affirmation of the possibilities of government and the lifeblood of a more hopeful society. "Taxes are what you pay to be an American" -- like "membership fees," says Democratic language guru George Lakoff.
President Obama merely says that taxes are necessary to "spread the wealth," which is better for everybody. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman frames the issue more reasonably: "Nobody likes paying taxes ... [but] most Americans also care a lot about the things taxes pay for." In other words, paying taxes -- and raising taxes in Krugman's view -- is the adult, serious, morally responsible thing to do. Government needs every last penny, and holdouts must be smoked out.
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Jonah certainly got the libs who commented on that story worked up into a froth, didn’t he?
I despise these liars and hypocrites.
yep...wait til you see my post...of course, the LAT usually doesn’t post my comments...they can’t stand the heat! LOL
That Democrat was then-Sen. Tom Daschle in 1998. The same Tom Daschle, we've since learned, who failed to pay more than $100,000 in back taxes for perks he received as one of Washington's most relentless influence-peddlers -- that is, until he realized he might receive a job in the Obama administration spending the money most Americans conscientiously send to Washington.
I believe that we have reached and gone over the cliff. Soon we will have more people voting in this country than we have people paying taxes. Even now, I’m willing to bet that those who pay no income tax went 99.9% for the O. As we shovel more money out to the “working poor” they will vote more and more taxes for us poor smucks who have earned income.
“...I want the same deal Charlie Rangel got...ten years of past due taxes and NO LATE FEES & NO INTEREST!...”
I’m filing some back taxes this year. I’ll insist on the same deal. Let you know how it works out and which club fed I’ll be assigned to. Be sure to write.
We can’t underestimate the importance of these tax cheats feeding the image of Limousine Liberals who want YOUR money to spend as THEY please, while escaping the rules THEY set down for wealth redistribution.
I seriously doubt the RNC has the intestinal fortitude to do it, but they have to forget about hanging with the dems at cocktail parties in DC and the potential awkwardness that will follow, and imagine themselves as street fighters fighting for US, not their pals—who would stab them in the back if their roles were reversed.
Meanwhile, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the supreme tax-writing body in the United States, the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, dodging taxes.
‘Rat talking points this morning, 0 “set the bar high.”
Thank you for this. I have always wondered why tears of joy ran down my cheeks as I wrote out my checks for the payment of taxes. Not until now did I understand the compulsion to put John Phillip Sousa Marches on the Stereo. Now it makes sense...I am in a state of RELIGIOUS EUPHORIA and at the same time overcome with a sense of PATRIOTIC FERVOR. Oh, the joy! Tonight I will sleep with my tax forms under my pillow. If you believe this, get help FAST!!
“soon?”
How ‘bout NOW!
HALF the American population doesn't pay income taxes NOW!
And HALF the American population depends on the government for their livelihood NOW!
Who says “Communism is dead!”
“I’ll insist on the same deal”
Good luck!
But I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
I wonder how Bruce Springsteen is on his taxes.
How do they get away with out paying? I made a minor mistake on a payroll payment to the IRS, got nasty letter and a hefty fine. Guess taxes are not optional for us commoners.
I saw mostly “A Bushie would have done the same thing!”
They are UTTERLY and COMPLETELY out of ideas on anything - all that’s left is contempt.
That’s the reason Democrats don’t mind rasing our taxes...’cause they don’t pay ‘em!!!
I really don’t want to say that you are right.... but you are.
The democrats must be stopped.
You are so right. Run for something, would ya?
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