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.
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Bartlett also hides the fact that he is pro income-based taxation in the form of a (so-called) flat tax ... which retains payroll withholdings for the entitlements.
The FairTax, which is economically superior to any income-based taxation, eliminates all of those income-based taxes (including the withholdings) and funds S/S & M/C out of the tax revenues allowing all taxpayers to see exactly how much "their" government costs them on each and every receipt when they purchase taxable things.
Since NO income is taxed the FairTax becomes an excellent first step of eventually eliminating the entitlements as being unnecessary by getting them out from the present hiding place in withholdings.
"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?!!!!!"
If the Dems deserve the blame, then they are already in power. If the Majority party doesn't advance their own agenda then they are to blame. What difference does it make who we cast our votes for if the agenda is not advanced.
Yes, I will vote and it will be for the Republicans, but sometimes it is with a heavy heart......
"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?!!!!!"
So they can tax me into the poorhouse and I can be grateful to them for doing it. /sarcasm
Just as long as they start with their Follywood base, Soros, Buffet, Gates, TV and media personalities, athletes, Rupert Murdoch etc, and leave those making $50K per household out of their grandiose schemes. But it never seems to work that way because the wealthy have bought politicians and lawyers and the tax slaves in the middle class have none. So Democrats hunt where the ducks are, and the saps who vote them in wonder why their taxes go up with every Democrat administration.
Who are your Senators and who is your Representative? Unless you live in Tennessee you can't affect Bill Frist. Unless you live in Arizona you can't touch John McCain. All you can do is do your part in determining who represents you, not who represents the Republican Party. From your rant I get the impression that you are not being very successful in your area.
Mr Senators are John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison and my Representative in Sam Johnson. Needless to say, I am very happy with them. I may not be happy with who is elected in your area but there is little I can do about it. That is up to you.
... No one is saying vote for the Rat party, but we better get some better candidates to replace these incumbents. I guess that means you will get to work and we will be more pleased with your area next time.
However, when it comes to president, we had better all unite behind whomever is nominated for the Republican Party. Any other position elects Hillary.
When people complain about the Patriot Act and such they often say they don't want to give that much power to Hillary. Did they forget so soon that Hillary ignores the laws anyway. Remember the travel office, the FBI files, her "I can't recall testimony.", the disappearing files and emails?
That is what you are voting for when you abandon the Republicans.
If you did that the rich would automatically and voluntarily pay more taxes and the politicians would not be able to take credit for it. Have you no compassion for your representatives?
There would also be no hidden loopholes for the rich to hide behind nor the tax lawyers and CPAs to secretly utilize for their clients. Are you unfeeling about the lawyers and CPAs who would then have to do honest work?
That NRST is a boondoggle. Too open. To easy. Too honest. Too effective.
The irony is that as a result in cuts in tax rates on the rich, the tax revenues collected from the rich have gone up. This is just what the Laffer Curve predicts, and it has happened every time the government has cut tax rates on high income earners, from TreasSec Mellon in the 1920s through Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush I and II.
OUCH!!!! You could not have put the argument in any better possible words than that. I was starting to teeter in the direction of "to hell with 'em" as to this November, but you've just shored up my vote!
It was a collabrative effort, believe me. SJackson put the pictures together, which makes it all the scarier, doesn't it???
Scarier and scarier. In some cases, like Conyers, it's enough alone that he would chair house judiciary to be quite scary enough.
A VERY good Explanation, but unless you can break it down into an easily shoutable 3-5 word slogan, most folks (and the Media's) eyes just gloss over....
The problem we have isn't ideology, it's COMMUNICATION.....
Getting your fair tax going is possible if you keep at it for the next 20 years.
Actually, I doubt it'll take that long. It's gaining support all the time.
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