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The Other McCain ^ | June 4, 2013 | Smitty

Posted on 06/04/2013 6:08:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for the link.

Incredible speech by a true Patriot.


21 posted on 06/04/2013 7:32:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Back in the day, this used to be called speaking truth to power. More of this is bound to happen, until truth wins, as it always does--even if in the meantime, as James Russell Lowell wrote,

Careless seems the great Avenger; history’s pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness ’twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

22 posted on 06/04/2013 7:44:33 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: bimboeruption
I think these Tea Party groups got greedy and thought the $$$ would come rolling in if people could exempt their donations...something that didn’t happen. They gave up their freedom for the prospect of making money.

No, not quite. These people sought a level playing field with their opponents, liberal groups that enjoy tax favoritism. They were denied.

You can’t rail against the big government mess while taking advantage of it. That’s hypocrisy and leads to the compromising of principles.

You can certainly take advantage of the system, get inside, and shut it down.

I think many of these Tea Party leaders aren’t really leaders...they’re sheeple.

What's your plan, exactly? Please list your successes.

23 posted on 06/04/2013 7:48:32 PM PDT by IncPen (When you start talking about what we 'should' have, you've made the case for the Second Amendment)
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To: Toespi

“They have been dynamic in these hearings and I think we need to applaud them instead of debasing them.”

Other than the Watergate hearings, have you ever seen a congressional hearing that actually accomplished anything except for the ‘show’?

When they take real action then I might start to believe.


24 posted on 06/04/2013 8:35:41 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: chris37; Toespi

“I respect what you are saying, but sadly I do not feel the same way.

I need to see actual action that has meaning and results. Dynamic on hearings is all well and good, but nothing has changed.

Personally, I do not care if they ever say anything at all again.

Now is the time to do.

I mean no disrespect to you or your post, but I have felt this way for some time now.”

I agree. Boustany from Louisiana was on Greta tonight and he was gutless to me... “measured response, let it play out, get all the facts” Normal political crap.

Get rid of the IRS is what they need to be saying. File your taxes on a post card. Everybody pays the same proportion of their income above some threshold... simple, proportional.

The politicians love the tax code though. They understand it is one of the places from which they derive their power. The power to punish enemies and favor friends who favor them.

I was born in Missouri. Show me.


25 posted on 06/04/2013 9:00:50 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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“I was born in Missouri. Show me.”

That is great ^^ Awesome way to put it, Sequoyah!

I am of the same mind.

You abuse your power, you lose your power. That’s all, nothing else. Game over for the IRS, the other details of its dissolution are less important and can be figured out after the American people are no longer being persecuted by unanswerable political tyrants.

The government may go without income for time? So what. Should have thought of that before they engaged in this. The government could go without money forever for all I care.


26 posted on 06/04/2013 9:04:50 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

Every person given the trust of the public purse should be VERY hesitant to spend it. The question, “Is it necessary?” should be on equal footing to, “Is it Constitutional?”

IRS is only necessary because politicians created a tax code that can’t be managed without a gargantuan and invasive hoodlum organization like the IRS.

The other question should be, “Is this good for me or the people I represent?” He should also know that protecting the rights of the people who earn the money must come first. Anything else is just plain totalitarian robbery.


27 posted on 06/04/2013 9:16:33 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Bryan24

**** “I think you are whacked.” ****

concur

TT

You may forward my sentiments to the whacked one, they are dead to me.

(whacked so to speak) ;^)


28 posted on 06/04/2013 9:44:55 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: bimboeruption

“I think these Tea Party groups got greedy and thought the $$$ would come rolling in if people could exempt their donations...something that didn’t happen. They gave up their freedom for the prospect of making money.”

Nonsense. Contributions to a 501(c)(4) are not tax deductible. That status means that the organization is not taxable. But that’s because inflow and outflow are supposed to be about equal over time. It’s a form of non-profit organization.

“You can’t rail against the big government mess while taking advantage of it. That’s hypocrisy and leads to the compromising of principles.”

Nonsense again. If you mean business, you will take advantage of every crack in the death star to destroy it. Once it is disintegrating into space, I’ll go back to worrying about ideological purity.


29 posted on 06/04/2013 9:58:33 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Nonsense again. If you mean business, you will take advantage of every crack in the death star to destroy it. Once it is disintegrating into space, I’ll go back to worrying about ideological purity.

Definitely worth repeating.

30 posted on 06/04/2013 10:12:05 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Bryan24; bimboeruption
I think you are whacked.

You are much kinder than me. I had to check the born on date. Sounded like newbie zot bait.
31 posted on 06/04/2013 10:20:07 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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