it's coming...
Posted on 04/22/2010 3:06:03 PM PDT by Biggirl
Governments at all levels are feeling the crunch from two sides. On one side, soaring deficits and budget shortfall as revenue drops due to the economic downturn. On the other, a grass-roots “Tea Party” movement that is in every state that demands smaller government and a return to fiscal responsibility.
The in rides the unionists, rent-a-mobs, and ACORN-types who see the writing on the wall and want to stave off the inevitable as long as possible by demanding that taxes be raised.
It won’t help, because the tax burden is already onerous. Adding to it only makes things worse and then the state grinds to a halt.
It’s over you f wads you hsve killed the goose that lays those golden eggs - morons!!
it's coming...
Nothing is stopping them from voluntarily paying more taxes themselves. If they want higher taxes, let them pony up. Just leave me out of it.
“It’s the makings of a civil war.”
Or something.
As Rush said: raise their taxes. By all means....
[Nothing is stopping them from voluntarily paying more taxes themselves.]
or they could just volunteer to take salary and benefit cuts. Same difference since their paycheck comes from the state tax coffers to begin with.
Good point.
Simple solution. Layoff 1500 of them and give the rest a raise with the money saved. Problem solved.
These clips need to saved for posterity. In 60 years, when they are studying this bizarre decade, they’ll understand just how insane we went when they see people demonstrating for higher taxes.
This my friends, is astroturfing./bingo, Biggirl. Two topics in a row refused to give me a reply window, maybe got moved out of news?
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime (SUCCESS IS NOW A CRIME) whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
This protest was on a weekday, right? Any bets that every single one of these civil serpents was there on the taxpayer dime, using a day of sick leave, personal leave, administrative leave, or something similar. Heck, they may have even received permission from their departments to participate -— the departments want the money too. I’d love to see efforts made to identify every one of the protesters, and discipline imposed on those that were using a sick leave day to parade around with astroturf signs. It’ll never happen, of course. We taxpayers get to pay for people protesting for more of our money. The revolution inches closer.
Who is John Galt?
Time to take the kids out of school before some of these loons decide that they’re going to hold their class hostage in order to get a wage raise.
This is the concept of “base salary”. Benefits and all sorts of things are calculated by the base salary. They are often far better off with a raise and a tax increase than staying pat.
I say, just put a surtax on legal fees. There is no more economically beneficial tax than a tax on the protection racket that lawyers comprise.
100% rate rate on all participants effective immediately, as constitutionally allowed by the 16th ammendment.
100% TAX rate on all participants effective immediately, as constitutionally allowed by the 16th ammendment.
Some already did:
Chicago Breaking News reported late last night that former Chicago schools chief and current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan manipulated a system to favor powerful political allies by placing their children in the schools of their choice.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/23/obamas-seced-manipulated-school-lists-to-favor-powerful/
"Chicago Way Education" Bethany Stotts, March 24, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan may have left Chicago, but the politics of his former position as the CEO of Chicago Public Schools continues to follow him to D.C. “While many Chicago parents took formal routes to land their children in the best schools, the well-connected also sought help through a shadowy appeals system created in recent years under former schools chief Arne Duncan,” reported the Chicago Tribune on March 23.
http://www.academia.org/chicago-way-education/
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