Posted on 05/10/2006 12:17:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Karl Marx isn’t dead. He is alive and well and living in the Democrat Party.
As Pravda masquerading as your Washington Post intones in its lead article of May 7th, “The quest for ways to reduce inequality begins with taxation.” Ah! The Democrat (read Socialist) Post is at it again and you won’t believe their rationale. They assert that new taxes must be imposed on the rich because America is doing so well the wealthy are making more than ever and paying a larger share of taxes on income(20% of taxpayers pay 84% of the income taxes and the top 2% pay over 40%).
That’s right, since they make more and pay more they need to share more of it with those sneaky, deceiving irresponsible thieves in the United States Congress so they can allocate money to their voting base (“victims”) who are also making more than ever just not proportionally as well as the wealthy.
So vote for the Democrats if you believe the contributors to America’s success should give more to the unproductive. And watch government’s tax revenues fall, they always do when rates are raised.
Equality? Nonsense! Democrats are NOT interested in equality. They are not interested in improving the lot of their voting base. They use that as an excuse to buy the patronage from the victims of their poverty-inducing policies. They are only interested in advancing socialism and the power that system gives them. They are anti-capitalists. Basically, they are communists who are radically trying to communize America. Why radically? Because at every turn they are forcing America to lose its way by introducing anti-principled moral relativism, diversity, multi-culturalism, atheism as well as actively pursuing immediate withdrawal and surrender of the Middle East to our announced enemy.
(Excerpt) Read more at chronwatch.com ...
You have a choice between the imperfect Republicans or the communist, Marxist Dems bent on the destruction of the US.
The Republicans may not have done everything you want -- mostly because they are being obstructed by the Dems -- but rewarding the Dems for obtructing what you really want just leads to the socialization of the US and the opposite of what you state you want, as a conservative.
"If Democrats were really interested in equality they would privatize Social Security and Medicare and thereby make the poor wealthy. It is a simple solution, unfortunately the “communists,” the “socialists,” nee the Democrats will not do it because George W. Bush has proposed it."
The article mentions this interesting website:
http://www.thenewsocialsecurity.com/
with info there about why it makes sense to privatize social security.
I have a feeling that as November approaches, those loudest voices claiming they will stay home will either go quiet and vote or will be revealed as the DUmmies they are.
Very unfair tax and would send lots of employers out of state which hurst us all.
And to what, offer pre pre school for illegal's children at the expense of Americans.
NO NO NO
and BTW...even Ben Stein was saying on the radio yesterday that there should be some extra tax on the richest people to help provide more for our military.....
Don't blame the people considering their choices of votes. Put the blame squarely where it belongs..on a Republican Congress that refuses to listen to the voters that put them there in the first place. They did it to themselves.
The author seems like a very knowledgeable and sensible person.
"About the Writer: Dick McDonald is a businessman, ex-CPA, and writer living in Los Angeles, California. His blog may be viewed at, http://dickmcdonald.blogspot.com/"
I checkout out his blog and here is his latest, very interesting one:
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I Want to Throw Up Every Time I Hear "Out-of-Control Spending"
Dick McDonald
Conservatives and even Democrats are pushing the panic button that our government spending is out of control. Is it? Our annual national income is $12.47 Trillion and our entire external national debt is only $4.9 Trillion. A ratio of 2.54 of annual income to 1 of cumulative debt. I know a majority of squawkers make at least $60,000 a year and carry debt loads including mortgages of $300,000 or more; 5 times their annual income. So we fiscal conservatives can criticize a 2.54 to 1 ratio when we carry a 1 to 5 load? All whiners should be ashamed. Our country is exceptional. It has between $120 to $250 Trillion in assets backing that measly $4.9.
What we have is out-of-control promising: debt incurred to be paid by our children such as the $13.2 Trillion perpetual unfunded Social Security debt politicians never report to the public. If they did, we may have something to sqawk about. Our annual deficit is not $300 Billion; in reality it nears a Trillion per year when you add the increase in entitlements ignored by Congress and politicians when reporting their performance to the voters.
Bruce Barlett is a nice man who has written a nice book on panic. He panics that George W. Bush hasn't vetoed even one spending bill. Ignored in Bruce's babble is that a Harvard MBA generally knows more than your average economic moonbeam. He telegraphs to Congress what he wants and will tolerate so he doesn't have to exert his bullying power. Quite compassionate, wouldn't you say?
Absent in Bartlett's analysis is the $6 to $9 Trillion increase in the net worth of both the public and private sectors in America. Folks sit down and take a chill pill; switch your concerns to an issue that really matters and one that will accelerate America's wealth creation at least at 3 times the rate it is presently running at; namely the reform of all public and private retirement and medical assistance programs by privatizing them. Now there is a budget cutter for you. How would you like to get rid of half of America's annual budget; privatizing will do just that. See http://www.thenewsocialsecurity.com for details on this plan.
This is the dividing line between Dems and Republicans--Democrats think The People shouldn't be allowed to accumulate too much wealth, that The State should be the arbiter of how much is too much, and those who have more than others need to be "equalled down".
It's also indicative of the basic Dem philosophy that taxes are not about government taking just enough money to do what it needs to do at bare minimum; taxes are about punishing the Haves.
funds even
"Put the blame squarely where it belongs..on a Republican Congress that refuses to listen to the voters that put them there in the first place. "
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Hellooo! Put the blame where it belongs, ON THE DEMOCRATS>
The DEMOCRATS were the ones who obstructed social security reform, cuts in spending, drilling in ANWR, making the tax cuts permanent and so on -- so why would you want to put them in power?!!!!!
Who is the majority in Congress? It isn't the democrats. The Republicans just won't fight for anything that might be "un PC" or considered convtroversial. Plus, I wouldn't get bent out of shape over any WP "soak the rich article". It's a ploy to motivate the base. In reality, Dem campaign financing would dry up faster than a puddle in the mojave desert. It would be political suicide.
Thanks for the link to the WP editorial advocating communism : "take away from the rich (via tazation) and redistribute it to the have-nots".
What a copout.
"Don't blame me for stealing the car keys and going to the party, mom--you told me not to go, so I had to!"
We take credit for voting IN people we like--Reagan, Bush--we have to have the cojones to stand up and say "I decided to let the Democrats take over in November" if we choose to let that happen.
Have the integrity to stand up and own your decisions.
My opinion is these people need to leave the republican party and not come back. Their views and personalities are not acceptable to 90% of the US public and they only provide vindication for the mostly false democrat mischaracterization of republicans.
I hope they all stay at home. We are more appealing to the public at large without them.
There I fixed it.
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Bump!
The Republibats are the Buchanan Brigades of the 2006 election. And look what they got us.
The Republicans clearly do NOT have sufficient majority, because the Dems are able to obstruct them.
You say: "Plus, I wouldn't get bent out of shape over any WP "soak the rich article". "
You get all upset about the Republicans and seems like the Dems wanting to tax to kill capitalism doesn't bother you at all.
I hope you are not one of the people described so well in THIS article:
The new 'Republicans vote on Wednesday' game (FR Mentioned) (article full text)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613957/posts?page=87#87
"But there seems to be a new “Republicans vote on Wednesday” taking form in time for the 2006 election. This effort targets grassroots conservatives known for their passionate views about issues who may be open to a grassroots voting rebellion. But the effort is being led, or at the very least aided, by liberals pretending to be grassroots conservatives, as opposed to actual grassroots conservatives themselves.
The premise follows a scheme previously found most often on talk radio programs: a liberal activist calls a conservative radio host, such as Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingraham, and delivers the line: “I’ve been voting Republican for 30 years, but I’ve finally had it and I’m not voting this year.” Or my favorite: “I’m a Reagan Republican, but I’m fed up and voting for John Kerry.” (Because that is what Reagan Republicans would do, vote for John Kerry.) At this point, the host usually asks a couple of questions and it becomes painfully obvious that the supposed Reagan Republican has probably never voted for anyone left of Michael Dukakis.
The intentions are clear: the caller hopes to make it appear as though there is already a large uprising of conservatives who are rebelling against GOP candidates, and thus, wishes to incite other Republicans to pick up the same attitude and pass it along, leading to the Democrat becoming more competitive. The successes of such a strategy on voting habits are unclear, especially given that the conservative radio host often refutes the caller’s talking points.
But the pretend-conservative act is being carried onto a whole new playing field, one that has become wildly influential over the past few years and one that does not stand to be instantly recognized as a fake. That playing field is the blogosphere, which is then used in conjunction with massive e-mailings to “spread the word” (as one e-mailer insisted I do to my readers/e-mail list) to other conservatives.
The concept is the same: the blog or e-mail claims, first, that the said writer has been a conservative for years and that they have “had it with Republicans.” They then point to an issue that conservatives would likely be upset about such as excessive spending, immigration, or the expansion of government. Their supposed rage over the issue has convinced them to either not show up to vote in 2006, or, in order to really show Republicans, vote for the Democrat instead. "
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