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Whoopi Finally Gets It! [video]
Heritage Foundation ^ | May 12, '09

Posted on 05/13/2009 12:42:51 AM PDT by T.L.Sink

"Whoopi Goldberg Rails Against Her Taxes." Now if only she can convince Obama to stop proposing ever new taxes, like today's Sugar Tax, yesterday's estate tax hike proposal and the grandaddy of them all - the Global Warming Tax.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bhotaxincrease; epiphany; heritagefoundation; obamunism; taxation; taxes; whoopi; whoopigoldberg
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Even a blind squirrel can sometimes discover an acorn! Whoopi may be learning what Margaret Thatcher said: "The problem with socialism is that it ultimately runs out of other people's money."
1 posted on 05/13/2009 12:42:51 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

You either pay for $4 trillion dollars of spending through taxes or inflation.


2 posted on 05/13/2009 12:44:13 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: T.L.Sink

I would love to see the day come when movie actors, rock musicians and professional athletes are regarded as ‘the rich’. I have a malevolent wish to see the likes of Bono and Whoopi taxed to their skivvies.


3 posted on 05/13/2009 12:51:47 AM PDT by VR-21 (The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: VR-21

Bono has run his mouth to the point that I’d like to see his entire fortune confiscated and handed to Africa. He sure doesn’t mind tapping my pocket to ease his conscience.


4 posted on 05/13/2009 1:03:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: T.L.Sink

When lefties get it, I think we should be supportive. This is the time when we drive home the point that freedom means being free from confiscation. Those funds wouldn’t be needed, if every feel good program wasn’t run up the flag pole, and saluted.

Rationality needs to become more the rule than the exception. Whoopi needs to be aware of that. This isn’t Republicans against Democrats.

It’s all citizens against massive big daddy government.

We keep it in check, and it’s stays off our back.

Good for Whoopi, this once.


5 posted on 05/13/2009 1:07:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: T.L.Sink

She really should hang on a bit - Obama’s just getting started.


6 posted on 05/13/2009 1:21:18 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: DoughtyOne
"He sure doesn’t mind tapping my pocket to ease his conscience."

Here's a Mark Steyn observation on Bono you might enjoy.

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2014/28/

7 posted on 05/13/2009 1:24:15 AM PDT by VR-21 (The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: T.L.Sink

ping for when I get home and don’t have a firewall to screw me!


8 posted on 05/13/2009 1:30:18 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: T.L.Sink

Shut up Whoopi! Pay your fair share. That’s what you’ve been telling us all these years. Whattsa matter? You not bringin’ in that much cash nowdays? Not as popular? Too f’in bad.


9 posted on 05/13/2009 1:31:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: T.L.Sink

Good for you, Whoopi.


10 posted on 05/13/2009 2:22:12 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: DoughtyOne

You’re right that “rationality needs to be more the rule than the exception.” In fact, that’s one of Rush’s main criticisms of liberals - they too often emote rather than think. As he often says, they don’t care about the unintended consequences - just that they feel good if they had good intentions.


11 posted on 05/13/2009 2:23:07 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

SAVING


12 posted on 05/13/2009 2:32:17 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Always Right

Right - Heritage says that Obama and the Congress have us so many trillions of dollars in debt into the future that within a decade just the interest on it alone will be $840 billion per year! We can’t borrow our way out because even China doesn’t want our Treasury notes anymore. Taxes will increase drastically and galloping inflation will result from our printing money. Oh well, that’s the Obamanomics that the voters wanted. Too bad we all have to pay for their stupidity!


13 posted on 05/13/2009 2:35:25 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

WHIPPIE you ain’t seen nothing yet. . . . . . .


14 posted on 05/13/2009 2:44:03 AM PDT by Voter#537 (Three Things to know about torture: 1-.Red is Positive. 2-.Black is Negative. 3- Nuts must be wet..)
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To: DoughtyOne; VR-21

I’d be happy if such would be forced just to live and stay in a socialist state for several years and really experience the realities of it. Forgive my schadenfreud but it would be amusing if they became seriously ill and had to wait months for treatment and were denied it because of the inevitable rationing. And it would be great to see them desperately try to get to America for treatment. Even better to hear them curse Obama if his socialized health care plans are established here and the best medical care in the world had disappeared!


15 posted on 05/13/2009 2:56:35 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Jack Hammer

By the time Obama and his fellow socialists get done with us Whoopi might start thinking Zimbabwe is looking pretty good!


16 posted on 05/13/2009 3:05:54 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

Her eyes open


17 posted on 05/13/2009 3:08:56 AM PDT by Son House (Make A Bad Situation Worse, Raise Taxes, Increase Government Spending, Thanks Ă˜bama)
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To: Gaffer

Same old liberal story: What’s good for YOU ain’t so good for ME and doesn’t apply.


18 posted on 05/13/2009 3:10:00 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

She almost gets it.

Taxes are not charitable giving and it isn’t the job of the federal government to take your money, launder it through their bureaucracies and redistribute it to their favored groups or causes.

Whoopi and society would be better off if the feds stayed out of it, Whoopi kept her hard earned money and donated personally to causes that she believes in.

That would be truly charitable and she’d have a vested interest in the success of the charities she chooses.


19 posted on 05/13/2009 3:18:02 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: Nickname

Exactly right. Liberals are only concerned with the REDISTRIBUTION of wealth and do everything thay can to punish and prevent the CREATION of wealth.


20 posted on 05/13/2009 3:32:53 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

this is just talk - like she would ever vote for a pubbie. She is a RAT through and through, and a little vent about taxes is not the same as seeing the light about personal liberty, personal responsibility and limited government and the rule of law as estabilished by our Constitution.

Until she understands and accepts those principles, she is just another two-faced RAT having a bad day.


21 posted on 05/13/2009 3:35:07 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: T.L.Sink

Reacting when it’s too late is not “getting it”.

The problem is that libs, and most politicians, usually can’t see beyond the next 10 minutes AND they have no idea how anything really works.


22 posted on 05/13/2009 3:41:09 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: T.L.Sink

I find it kind of ironic. I’m sure she pays megabucks in income and property taxes. Yet the taxes she’s railing against are the nickle and dime taxes on her cell phone bill. What is that — 0.001% of her income? She probably picked that example so her audience could “relate”.


23 posted on 05/13/2009 3:53:20 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: T.L.Sink

Hush up, Whoopi. It’s time to obey your master lord obuma and pay up. More is coming. Wait till he hits you with the wealth tax, while exempting all his fascist friends. We’ll save a spot for you on the perimeter defense line. You can tell obuma jokes.


24 posted on 05/13/2009 3:59:52 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: rigelkentaurus

I think you’re right that she’d never vote for a Republican. Even before Obama, blacks voted +90 percent for Democrats. Now it’s probably something like 99 percent. But I think there’s always the possibility that if enough hard working, successful blacks see how they’re being PERSONALLY hurt and punished for their efforts even they might have second thoughts about liberalism. Maybe the answer is to run conservative black candidates like Steele or Thomas Sowell. There’s only one way to go with that voting bloc and that’s UP.


25 posted on 05/13/2009 4:04:17 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

I think there ought to be a “Windfall Artist Tax” levied against overpaid Hollywood actors & directors to help pay for healthcare for the “poor and children” of starving artists. You would hear those scumbags screaming at the top of their lungs at that one.


26 posted on 05/13/2009 4:14:10 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: T.L.Sink

The Kenyan Clown means to “spread the wealth”.


27 posted on 05/13/2009 4:14:37 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: rbg81

I thought about that too. But you have to remember the combined IQ of “The View” panelists is probably somewhere around 90. Then, too, she may have enough sense to hire some good accountants and tax lawyers and pay very little income tax. Or - even better - she may be like half of Obama’s cabinet and staff and pay NO taxes! Who knows?


28 posted on 05/13/2009 4:15:59 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

This is more than a year old!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/04/15/whoopi-goldberg-rails-against-her-taxes


29 posted on 05/13/2009 4:18:44 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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To: snowsislander

And like a good socialist he wants to spread OUR wealth around. But we’ll soon be at the point where there’s none left to spread. His trillian dollar deficits already have the next generation in hock.


30 posted on 05/13/2009 4:31:51 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Roccus

Who cares? Maybe you should be reminded.


31 posted on 05/13/2009 4:34:20 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

As a taxpayer, I don’t need reminding.


32 posted on 05/13/2009 4:44:31 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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To: T.L.Sink

Whoopie is starting to get it. I’d like to think it’s because shes a VT land owner now. Most confiscatory state in the union.


33 posted on 05/13/2009 4:48:36 AM PDT by VTenigma
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To: rbg81

She needs to acknowledge how all of those taxes affect lower and middle income earners.

I’d also add that she’s complaining as an individual and as an employee.

I doubt that she has a CLUE as to what government at all levels take and demand from businesses.


34 posted on 05/13/2009 5:01:38 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: T.L.Sink

She won’t turn on zero. Black trumps taxes.


35 posted on 05/13/2009 5:18:20 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: DoughtyOne
That would be Bono the tax evader.

http://www.taxjustice-usa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=195
36 posted on 05/13/2009 5:20:46 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

I think you may be right after considering how Colin Powell, who voted for Obama, is now talking about how people want to pay higher taxes for more services! Talk about the worst of both worlds!


37 posted on 05/13/2009 5:29:05 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: VTenigma

I didn’t know she had property in VT. If that confiscatory state doesn’t persuade her, a short visit to NYC will. That will convince her that the Soviet Union never fell!


38 posted on 05/13/2009 5:38:05 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

How long will it be, before all the white lefties start calling her a step and Fetch-it for the rich? Start calling her Aunt Jemima? Uncle Tomasina? and black Leftists start calling her a Sellout?, a race traitor? of acting white?
How long will it be, before shit for brains little rapper poser, garners together all his intellectual reserves, and his “street cred” and announce that Whoopie “Don’t care about black people!”?


39 posted on 05/13/2009 6:52:21 AM PDT by DGHoodini (God's gonna getcha!)
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To: T.L.Sink

It’s not unlikely that a good many of us will start thinking so.


40 posted on 05/13/2009 8:39:33 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: T.L.Sink

will garafalo now call whoopi a racist?


41 posted on 05/13/2009 8:40:32 AM PDT by isom35
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To: T.L.Sink

Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that guy behind the tree.


42 posted on 05/13/2009 8:42:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: isom35

Well when it comes to men, Whoopi sure likes the “White Prize.”


43 posted on 05/13/2009 8:43:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: T.L.Sink
Forgive my schadenfreud..."

There's nothing to forgive. You're kinder than I am. I'd send them to Somalia.

44 posted on 05/13/2009 11:43:39 AM PDT by VR-21 (The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: VR-21

Thanks VR-21. I’ve made a PDF out of it, and I’ll be sending it around.

Typical leftists... they love you to pay for their ‘good causes’, but can’t be bothered when it comes to their funds.


45 posted on 05/13/2009 1:50:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: T.L.Sink

I find myself going with my instincts too at times, against convention wisdom. I sometimes get called on it here too, but I’m up front about it.

There are times when you have to go with your gut, rather than with the supposed facts. Stats and facts can be jobbed.

I do agree with your overall assessment. The libs don’t care if we can’t pay for something, as long as they think it’s something we have to do. The liberal’s ability to think rationally, just doesn’t exist.


46 posted on 05/13/2009 1:53:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: T.L.Sink

That’s the way I see it too. Once our system, with it’s known imprefections, is destroy, it will be very tough to go back. Then what? Of course they haven’t thought that far yet.


47 posted on 05/13/2009 1:54:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

LOL, there you go. I had forgotten about that. Someone else reminded me, and it’s quite hilarious when you think about it.

These leftist do-gooders are all frauds.


48 posted on 05/13/2009 1:55:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: DGHoodini

Probably when “Uncle Ben” Sharpton gets involved.


49 posted on 05/14/2009 2:46:25 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: isom35

I think Garafalo will have to invent a new word to desribe her racism. We’re the “rednecks” so maybe it will be something like “whiteneck.” But that doesn’t fit does it? HA! HA! How about “Jemimah-neck”?


50 posted on 05/14/2009 3:10:50 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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