Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn.
Stark, raving mad. Get this senile old coot out of Congress.
stealth VAT
Are you suggesting that Barry will impose this through executive fiat (executive order)?
STOP SPENDING OUR F***ING MONEY!!
CALIFORNIA! PLEASE DO SOMETHING! AMERICA NEEDS SOME RELIEF FROM THESE KOOKS!
People will then demand payment in cash.
These bozos are real good at dreaming up new taxes.
How do we allow the criminally insane to run our country into the ground while we sit and watch.
What? 48 percent of what I earn isn’t enough? I presume this is a tax on incoming AND outgoing funds, which makes “1%” a lie. It’s already double that if you take your money out. All I would do is cash my check. I have enough well-armed family for security.
Stark seems bound and determined to get to the very top of the proscription list, if he isn’t already!
Time to charge these loons with treason for deliberately trying to destroy the United States. They know better. These schemes are NOT done in ignorance, but with malice aforethought.
The UTTER LIE is the concept that these Brokers and Bankers will ‘pay’ that tax.
It will be passed on to the consumer, as it always is.
After all, decades of buying votes gets expensive!!
If anything could turn a recession into a Mega-Depression, that would be it.
How about we eliminate 50% of federal government jobs and eliminate all pensions that would pay retired govt employees more than $35K per year?
I think it would be a good start.
A noticably right wing group of nutter don't you think? /sarc
I hope they try. Just let them try.
The federal government, led by democrats and totalitarians like Stark, continues to look for an action that is so outrageous, people’s response will create an excuse for martial law.
Of course these tax consumer groups support this tax. I cannot conceive of a tax they would not support: driveway taxes, value-added taxes, sin taxes, currency transaction taxes, carbon taxes or cap-and-tax: any kind of taxes. Tax consumers are growing increasingly desperate as they see an ever-increasing share of current government revenues disappearing into the fiscal black hole of bloated civil serpent compensation and benefits packages as well as pensions, which have to be paid out before all other claims on the public treasury. Critical "social service" spending in some states is already being pared back as government revenues decline. This could easily devolve into a war on the left, as traditional democrat clients see food stamp and other programs cut as civil serpent pay soars.
We're going to see a blizzard of proposals for new fees, taxes, etc, in upcoming years. Our only recourse is to fight every single one of them, even those advanced for a seemingly worthy purpose (a favorite tactic of our rulers at the local level is to put forward proposals for taxes earmarked for expenditures they think the public will support (e.g., libraries, senior centers, athletic facilities for schools) instead of prioritizing and paying for needed items out of already enacted revenue flows. (Of course, that might mean that the public employees might not get an 8% raise this year.)
STARVE THE BEAST!
this is also another swipe at the people who put some of their cash into gold before 0bama cut the value of the dollar by 50%