Posted on 01/26/2012 9:41:27 AM PST by Sasparilla
Why are the Rules always different for Democrats? It doesn't matter if its Charlie Rangle not paying his taxes and just getting a slap on the wrist reprimand in the House, and not prison time. Or, IRS Chief ,Tim Geitner, forgetting to pay his income taxes, and being appointed Treasury Secretary. Maybe even Barney Frank's boyfriend running a prostitution ring from the apartment they shared, and it not reflecting negatively on him because, "He was unaware of it?" Or, Ted Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, and Chappaquiddick. No one complained about Ted's and the Kennedy family's huge fortune. Nor, were they worried in the least how much Ted Kennedy paid in taxes.
Now, Mitt Romney, an "Anybody But Obama" candidate, is being ripped to shreds by the Democrats because of claims of Romney's destroying companies, his success in investing, his using capital gains laws in calculating his income taxes, in addition to the fact that he paid what the law required in income taxes. But, how many companies have Democrat regulation and policies destroyed?
What about Democrat Senators and Representatives who made millions on their own investments, insider trading notwithstanding. We wager that an examination of their tax returns will show their income being taxed as capital gains at 15% or less, if anything. That certainly is not their "Fair Share" according to Obama. Have they been admonished and taken to the woodshed by the Organizer in Chief or his sidekick, Joe Biden?
Why aren’t Democrats and Obama attacking those on this list of Democrat lawmakers by name who made millions from Investments?
1. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) $188.37 million- Married it- Teresa inherited the Heinz fortune. This man lives in Massachusetts and even bought a yacht in a neighboring state to avoid his state taxes. He was eventually shamed...
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The Democraps could not compete on a level playing field. They have no morals and cheat to win.
Yoo be dissin’ da party? Yoo mus’ be racis’!
One of Obama's biggest defenders is John McCain.
Here in MA, Scott Brown is running for re-election, and he's staked out a position a little to the left of Obama.
We won't criticize the evil policies of the Dems, because it might make us look mean.
We won't defend sound Conservative values, because it might make us look uncompassionate.
Figures like Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich who seem ready to tell it like it is are squashed like bugs by those inside and outside our party.
Because republicans grant them a perpetual exemption through a lack of courage and conviction.
The answer is an Occum’s razor response, and that is it is because the MSM are corrupt dishonest brokers of information. If the MSM reported with earnest objectivity then Liberals and Democrats would not stand a chance. Period, bottom line.
Human nature.
The media and the Democrat Party use Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals which basically tells them the same thing as Stalin and Mohammed say, “it’s okay to lie to those who stand in your way.”
The lies may be lies of omission (such as how much money Warren Buffett’s secretary actually makes, or that Warren Buffett is billed a higher tax AMOUNT than she is even if he does owe back taxes he never paid).
The lies may be deliberate erroneous slurs and forged memos.
The lies may be the “outrage” they express when one guy (with an R by his name) does something and the collective “so what”/(yawn) when the culprit is protected.
You cannot engage in an honest debate with such a person. They are not intellectually honest. They will not concede error. They will not concede to a superior idea. People are expendable to people with that worldview.
The Weather Underground fantisized about killing the 25 million hold-outs they figured wouldn’t go along with their program and who would resist re-education. Other Communists have done this. We see Islamist purges of the kufir today.
Because conservatives do stand for something, every failing of theirs is characterized as "hypocrisy".
Its not as black and white as Obama portrays. Raising Capital gains taxes is a political election Gimmick. People holding assets subject to capital gains taxes will just hold on to them and not sell them, which would make them subject to a higher tax rate.
Here’s what The Congressional Budget Office had to say about an increase in the Capital gains tax rate.
“How much additional revenue will be obtained by increasing tax rates on capital gains is uncertain.
Taxpayers can defer the payment of capital gains taxes by not realizing the gains-that is, by holding onto assets instead of selling them; they can avoid taxation of gains entirely by passing on their assets to others at death.
If realizations decline by a greater percentage than the tax rate increases, revenues from capital gains taxes could fall instead of increasing.”
This is just one reason why increasing the capital gains rate will cause loss of tax revenue.
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