my step daughter still plans to vote for Obama.Very stubborn
RE: “my step daughter still plans to vote for Obama.Very stubborn”
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Did you give her the example we’ve all seen here of libs (Dems) v. conservatives (or Repubs)? It’s the anecdote about two college students — one who works very hard, nose to grindstone, gets straight A’s, etc., and the second who parties, barely gets by grade-wise, etc.
Left-leaning girl (like your stepdaughter) is told, by you, that she should favor taking a couple of her hard-earned A’s and give them to the partying “C” student so that student would have a better GPA. It would be more “fair.” ...Kind of like that Obama wealth redistribution thing..
In the anecdote, the good student is appalled, saying “No, taking some of my good grades away would not be fair, I earned my good grades!”
Her father replied simply: Welcome to the Republican party!
Not much you can do. Try:
* The old example of the four fellows going out to dinner, each representing a quartile of America. It's an expensive bill ($100) and they decide to split the tab. One suggests splitting it the way taxes are paid in America. So the richest fellow pays 90%, the next two fellows pay 5%, and the last fellow pays nothing. As they lay their money out on the table, three of them turn to the richest and say, "You cheap miser!" Why aren't you paying your fair share!"
And if you believe Obama, the rich fellow should also give the other fellows $5 each.
Makes Obama's argument a little hollow doesn't it?
WSJ source article:
Yes, the WSJ had an Editorial a couple of days ago highlighting the fact that the "top 1% of taxpayers, those who earn above $388,806, paid 40% of all income taxes in 2006, the highest share in at least 40 years. The top 10% in income, those earning more than $108,904, paid 71%. Barack Obama says he's going to cut taxes for those at the bottom, but that's also going to be a challenge because Americans with an income below the median paid a record low 2.9% of all income taxes, while the top 50% paid 97.1%. Perhaps he thinks half the country should pay all the taxes to support the other half."
http://ewanwatt.blogspot.com/2008/07/americas-rich-pay-their-fair-share.html