Posted on 10/18/2011 6:47:01 AM PDT by PENANCE
Cantor: Republicans agree there is 'too much income disparity' By Julian Pecquet - 10/16/11 11:15 AM ET
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said repeatedly Sunday that Republicans agree that too few people control too much wealth in America.
"We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scales, that they make too much and too many don't make enough," Cantor said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, toning down his earlier criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
"We need to encourage folks at the top of the income scale to actually put their money their work to create more jobs so we can see a closing of the gap," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Cantor was not saying anything revolutionary. He was just stating the obvious, that if the government gets out of the way and lets people invest and spend, it will be good for everybody, particularly the poor. This is standard Conservative dogma.
It is the opposite of what the OWS folks are saying, which is that the only way to help the poor is to confiscate from the rich and hand the money over to the poor.
Oh sure, we all have our moments of weakness, where we want to BELIEVE. But in the long run, it seems like just plain hating them and treating them as a disease is a sensible disposition. At minimum the mere fact that they seek office should make us all leery of them.
Taxation is not the issue, per se. It is a symptom of the disease, which is too much government. We need to reduce the size of the federal government. A lot of states have been doing so for a while now, out of necessity (they don't have a money printing press).
The national government is the Sugar Daddy of last resort, and the underpinning, through debts and obligations, of our entire Leviathan. The mode of taxation is a tangential issue when viewed in the whole.
You cannot starve the beast. It will take on more debt and more liabilities anyway. You must cut it down to size. The GOP should adopt the recently released Ron Paul plan as its platform. If it's serious, which of course it isn't.
Hey Eric, WTF! I had such hope for this guy.
“Doesn’t the Party do any vetting of it’s people?”
Yes, he was vetted - by Boehner.
and, nevermind the general incoherence of whatever point he is trying to make, the general awkward speaking style, wrong cadence, and overall geekiness should have disqualified the guy from any spokesman role where the media is involved.
Am I wrong?
Exactly. There is too much income disparity due to a gerrymandered tax and regulatory code that creates a barrier to broadening prosperity.
The difference is conservatives want to pull people from the bottom up, liberals want to tear people from the top down.
If we allow people to do so and quit this marxistic share the wealth, social equity (forced by government), etc., and if we promote a return to firm Judaeo-Christian values this nation was built upon, then we will find all classes of people rising as more jobs are created, as initiative and ingenuity are promoted and rewarded and as America does what it does best with the free market based upon fundamental moral and republican principle...create the most prosperous and giving society in the world.
In that environment all people rise. As the overall tide rises, all vessels in that sea are raised. And it happens as a result of individual freedom, initiative, personal responsibility, and the underlying charitable feelings and actions of the people towards those in need.
Problem with the left...and far too many in the "compassionate wing" of the GOP is that their compassion is administered at the point of a government gun. Meaning undue taxation and regulation for the which you are criminalized if you do not toe the line.
Away with all such! Including Cantor if he leans that way.
We simply have to stop fearing these progressives/marxists and call them for what they are...and what history proves them to be...destroyers of freedom and wealth for the individual, and tyrants who garner power and wealth to themselves to administer as they please.
Look at the minorities in this country...particularly at the Black community who have bought into these progressive schemes. After 45+ years and trillions of dollars are their communities any better off? The answer is no. Their families are destroyed, the vast majority of them who buy into this nonsense are wholly dependent on government, and they are being raised to believe that their servitude and economic bondage is owed to them and so they demand more.
It's time to turn that around and we cannot do it by fearing the progr3essives or their message and the complicit MSM.
He is mistaken. Not all Republicans are driven by jealousy, envy and coveting other people’s wealth.
To bad. Now we find that Cantor, our second in command in the House, is (like his boss), totally clueless when it comes to economic issues.
Where are the leaders. Where?
Cantor: “Republicans agree there is ‘too much income disparity”
Really?
Most people in THIS country who are THAT rich got rich by putting OTHER people to work.
THEN, these so called ‘rich’ people invest in their communities AND give MASSIVELY to charities.
It proves he is a Moron, not a conservative. He and Bohner gotta go.....
RUSH: Okay, so there you have it. You have a premise put forth by the Democrats, the income disparity, the gap, rich versus the poor, rich have too much, poor don't have enough, it's because the rich are stealing everything, so we'll accept that premise, and then we'll tanker with it around the margins and change the verbiage. We'll come up with a new phrase called income mobility, and we'll say that that's what we're for. We're for income mobility, but we're gonna jump on the rich, too. We're gonna join this bandwagon of piling on the rich, 'cause there's only 1% of them, and 99% of the people who aren't rich, we want to get their votes, too, so we're going to join this chorus that says the reason the economy's bad is because the rich are hoarding their money and they won't invest it and they won't hire people and they won't create more jobs, so we Republicans are gonna try to come up with policies here in Washington that make it so that rich people hire more people.
Folks, you want to tell me what's funny about this? You want to tell me what's funny about this, Mr. Snerdley? We've also got somewhere in the stack here something Romney has said that's not the same subject but is in the same vein. I'll find it here in the stack somewhere. This is called snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I just don't understand it. So once again, the agenda is set by the left. They set a premise. We, instead of ignoring it or nuking it, accept it, and then tinker with it. "Yeah, well, we have a better idea, better way of doing this," solving the whole notion of income inequality.
Mark Levin called it yesterday by asking ...what does this dope think.. the rich hide their money in jars????? More proof the GOP leadership doesn’t know any more about economics the Obama.. or worse
Concentration of wealth in a thin elite is the inevitable result of socialism. That is NOT a good thing. A free society results in a relatively flat society.
No, but they hide from their poorer competition behind government regulations and tax benefits.
The Rich are not our enemies, NOR are they our friends. Conservatives make the mistake of going way wrong the opposite direction.
We don’t know that he didn’t qualify his statement as we weren’t there and we know the media prints what it wants to print for the reaction they want.
They’re not MY special friends either. However, I am mature and rational enough to know that they are a necessary inconvenience..... a VERY necessary inconvenience
No broke guy ever gave me a job.
Rush completely missed the point on this one. It is not often he flubs one this badly, but he did it here.
Did you ever get a job with a rich guy only because he was your friend? The Koch’s are an anomaly. The super rich are overwhelmingly liberal, use their wealth to perpetuate large government and unfair regulations.
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