Posted on 11/20/2012 6:54:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Dennis Van Roekel, president of the largest teachers union, the National Education Association, failed fifth-grade math last week. The question he failed is: If X (government spending) is growing faster than A (government tax revenue) plus B (new revenue from higher tax rates on “the rich”), when will A plus B equal X? President Obama met with leaders of left-leaning organizations, including Mr. Van Roekel, to discuss the “fiscal cliff.”
After the meeting, Mr. Van Roekel appeared on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show to discuss the budget deficit. Mr. Van Roekel told Mr. Cavuto that he had recommended taxing the top 2 percent more to deal with the problem. Mr. Cavuto then correctly explained that taxing the top 2 percent could not solve the problem because even with the increase, spending would still be growing far faster than revenues — primarily because of entitlement programs.
After some back and forth, Mr. Van Roekel could not identify one item in the budget that he was in favor of cutting and kept insisting the problem could be solved only by taxing the top 2 percent, even though Mr. Cavuto again correctly and clearly explained that even taxing the top 2 percent at a 100 percent rate would not produce enough revenue because entitlements are growing faster than the economy. Mr. Van Roekel appeared to be unable to grasp this rather simple concept.
At the end of last week, Hostess Brands Inc., the company that makes Twinkies and Wonder Bread, asked to be liquidated because the bakery workers and their union bosses could not understand this: If A (workers’ salaries and benefits) is growing faster than B (sales revenue), company H (Hostess) will run out of money and be forced into liquidation. So 18,500 workers are losing their jobs
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Liberals always think that taxes are a single variable dynamic. The think if tax revenue is X and they increase taxes by N percent then the net tax revenue will be X+(X*N). The same goes for a tax cut. They never seem to check the data after the change. Facts shall not interfere with the liberal agenda.
The chess-piece fallacy: assuming that some authority can achieve desired results as though he were moving chessmen on a board, ignoring people’s desires and incentives
The ignorance of basic human behavior is the underlying problem with communism. They actually believe a Godless man who only worships the state can be achieved if only man is whipped and terrorized enough. The problem is people are born with an innate sense of God-granted freedom and you need to whip every generation sufficiently to destroy their will and bow to the state.
All liberals, communists, marxists, statists, tyrants and dictators ignore fundamental human nature and suffer this fatal conceit.
Another aspect of Humanism is the belief in the “superman”.
Humanists believe that the level of moral and intellectual achievement can be far superior in certain “super” people, and this goes hand in glove with an evolutionary worldview.
When communists would invade a country or society, they wouldn’t extol the benefits of communism so much as they would teach evolution. Having this basis for belief leads inexorably to atheism/nihilism, which in turn empowers the State as the only eternal entity, superior to the rights and desires of the people under that State.
Hostess Brands Inc. went Galt. Soon, this will be defined as being disloyal. No actual laws will be passed, and there may not even be an executive Order. The tax laws are sufficiently convoluted that DOJ and IRS can be used as a surgical weapon as well as one of mass destruction.
Funny, isn’t it? They believe that only the “best and brightest” should govern us and know what is best for us, yet the same people deny the bell curve distribution of intelligence.
RE: Hostess Brands Inc. went Galt.
Actually they’re back in mediation.
The unions decided to talk and negotiate. Better to have some work at a time like this than be unemployed ( but then with Obama taking care of your needs, why do you need to work?).
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Boring and non sequitur. Knock it off!
A woman would never have another child just to make the check go up, or
people who don't need free cheese would never stand in a line to get free cheese, or
somebody who has a 6th grade education and a half-dozen illegitimate children would never spend food money on extensions and nails...
and on, and on, and ad infinitum ad nauseam
Sorry to blaspheme your faith with the Truth.
An example problem.....
If New York City increases their cigarette tax by 10%, and formerly they were making $10 million dollars a year on the cigarette tax, how much will they make on the cigarette tax AFTER the tax increase?
A) $11 million
B) $12 million
C) A lot less than $10 million because people will buy cigarettes in New Jersey.
It really isn’t that hard. Yet liberals will almost always answer A..... or sometimes B. Fools.
They keep coming up with solutions that rely on changing human nature, and then blaming us when it fails because we didn’t change.
It didn't work. It was wrong. But they were hardly Darwinists. And nothing in Darwinian evolution suggests that anyone is going to be “super”.
Dems want the fiscal cliff to happen it’s a blessing for them.
1.More tax money
2.They can blame the republicans and take the next election
3.The gov gets to take more control
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I got it... you assume much.
I’ll consider it, but it is not a rebuke that I’m taking too seriously, since many assumptions about me are incorrect.
Oh, the liberals understand it. They just think that they’re so smart that they can squeeze some more taxes out without causing a catastrophe. They aren’t stupid, they’re greedy.
“Understand your enemy and understand yourself, and in one hundred battles, you will not be defeated.”
If the Democrat voters can be so easily conned by their Democrat leaders, isn’t that something we could take advantage of?
He didn't mention defense spending?
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