Posted on 08/17/2004 2:38:57 PM PDT by unspun
LOL. Well, I know that earlier some folks were saying that this wasn't a racial thing, but just a tax exemption for descendants of slaves. Here, at least, Keyes makes it more clear that this proposal is about "removing the tax burden from the black community for a generation or two. . . ."
I'm glad he clarified that.
I can't wait to see what he's cooking up for tomorrow. ;-)
It is too late to spin the ball, after it hits out of bounds...
keyes just nailed his chances to the coffin of race baiting.
You sure sound like you're defending it to me. And what, exactly, is the empowerment here -- empowerment to cause greater divisions between white and black in this country? Empowerment to discriminate on the basis of race?Empowerment to have middle-class white people pay the tax burden for black millionaires?
Actually as a conservative I support tax cuts for anybody, even when it's not me.
I supported the tax cuts for the highest income bracket, even though I wasn't in that bracket.
But furthermore, read what I write in #40. This can actually be used as part of a long term strategy to reduce taxes for everyone and get African-Americans to vote for the Republican party.
LOL - yeah, me too!
There you have it. Again.
LOL (The Greatest Orator on Earth seems to have an extraordinarily difficult time making himself understood - have you noticed that?)
Actually he's perfectly understandable, but of course not to people who don't want to understand him. Kinda like how the likes of Chris Matthews can't understand John O'Oneil.
I'm waiting with bated breath.
No, it won't. All it will do is make Obama look reasonable and moderate to swing voters. And race-based discrimination is not something a conservative should ever support.
And what does race-based tax relief encourage? A race war?
yeah... right....
clinton would have loved to given us all tax cuts, but we just couldn't afford it as a nation, so we had to settle for "targetted tax cuts" for working class families.
imagine the howling protests around here if clintong would have proposed outright "targetted tax cuts" for the blacks.
but alan suggests it... and it is just fine...
rofl.
Kenya is in eastern Africa and Hawaii is in the U.S. Why isn't he an African/American?
The whole reparations thing, seems racist to me.
Is he playing the race card?
"the U.S. should do what the Romans did:"
So should the United States also go belly up as a civilization?
That's what the Romans did.
But don't you get it? The whole point of this is to use racial equality argument to get tax relief for everyone and turn the argument on the Dems. First get the tax relief for one group, then after a while point out how unfair it is only one group gets it, and you're faced with eitehr raising taxes for the group that gets it, or give the same relief to everyone.
And the Dems will be stuck with holding the position of wanting to raise it for the one group that historically are most blindly loyal to them, and whose defection would be disasterous for them. So they either lose the black vote in large chunks, or be forced to agree to the tax relief.
I speak some Keyes, but I am struggling a little with this one......
If you look at it, you'll see I didn't proclaim him otherwise. I did however draw a distincition between someone who is of the culture of those who descended from American slaves and a wealthy elitist chap who does not.
This is one issue of many. Go ahead and stick with the present batch of GOP Senators, if you like. I appreciate someone who has his own spine.
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