Posted on 01/06/2012 8:35:25 AM PST by Kaslin
I agree.
Problem is their voter base cannot take "fairness" to its ultimate conclusion, they were never taught to think.
And remember that some time close to the 2008 election, Obama was opining about capital gains taxes being too low. The interviewer told him that lower rates have resulted in increased revenue to the federal government. Obama replied that his wanting to raise the rates wasn’t a matter of revenue but fairness. Either we have a mentally-deficient person as president or we have our own economic suicide bomber as president or, like the way Muslim terrorist leaders take advantage of mental defectives as a recruit pool for suicide bombers, we have a mentally-deficient economic suicide bomber as president. I’m leaning toward the third choice.
Obama isn’t smart enough to run a snocone stand.
For decades now, and especially with a committed "redistributionist" as their leader, the so-called "progressive" Democrats have refused to acknowledge the simple logic of massgopguy's question.
They, in their overwhelming desire for accumulation of power of government over people, acknowledge the taxing power as useful for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.
On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains motivation.
Democrats, under Obama, now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.
Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Here what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's "progressive" Democrats.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
“Problem is their voter base cannot take “fairness” to its ultimate conclusion, they were never taught to think. “
“fairness” to it’s ultimate conclusion is Communism!
As you know communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, stateless and revolutionary socialist society ...
We need to start calling it what it is.
Bump for later reading.
Yes it is communism, but communism is the ultimate power over people for a Government.
Six of one, half dozen of the other kind of thingy.
The profit margin on the washer was $200, so we still made $150 off of it, plus we got the full price for the other appliances.
The tax situation is similar. If you make it less painful for someone to invest or spend their money, they will likely do so more often.
Nashville has a tax-free weekend each year just before school starts that covers clothes, school supplies, and computers. This attracts tons of business from Kentucky, so the Louisville City Council is getting ready to vote to create a similar tax holiday and keep all of that revenue here in Kentucky.
It's a strategy that worked brilliantly for Truman when the 80th Congress tried to scale back FDR's big-spending New Deal legislation. It's deja vu all over again and the Pubbies still haven't learned the public relations lesson.
BTTP
Yeah, I remember that. He was either lying through his teeth, or didn’t know what he was talking about
It is their desire for power and control, which is accomplished by lying to the masses and manipulating them.
The TRUTH if I've ever heard it. Well said.
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