Posted on 10/06/2006 8:28:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 6, 2006 - 11:10
Do you favor tax cuts? If so, you're no better than a congressman wanting to slip the pants off a page. Worse, for that matter. That's the reasoning of Rosa Brooks, L.A. Times columnist. In Grand Old Party of Child Endangerment, Brooks argues that:
"Foley's acts may have damaged the handful of boys unfortunate enough to have attracted his attention, but the damage to children caused by his abuse of power is still far, far less than the damage to American children caused by this Congress' disastrous mismanagement of the American economy."
By "mismanagement," Brooks makes clear she largely means tax cuts:
"Though only the Foley scandal has generated substantial media coverage, the Republican-led Congress has a long record of child endangerment. Recall that from 2000 to 2005, Congress handed out tax breaks for the rich like hors d'oeuvres at a Republican fundraiser. They slashed the estate tax and the capital gains tax, selling these cuts with an advertising campaign that misled ordinary people into thinking the cuts were going to help working Americans, instead of just the rich."
You might have thought that believers in more welfare as the solution to poverty had gone the way of the carrier pigeon, but there is apparently at least one member of the species left extant out in L.A. Brooks wishes taxes were higher so we could pay for "meaningful spending on healthcare, job-creation and anti-poverty programs." Guess the trillions the federal government has spent on healthcare, notably including the out-of-control Medicaid program, don't mean nuthin' to Brooks. With standards like that, buying her a birthday present could be a scary proposition.
To summarize: unless you buy into big government, you're a child abuser. Just one more way the MSM seeks to exploit L'Affaire Foley to promote its liberal agenda.
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Sorry to shout but there has been a bad outbreak of blame-the-messenger here at FR!
LA Times/NewsBusters tax cuts = child abuse ping to Today show list.
Figures that an addle-brained liberal like Brooks would equate tax cuts with child abuse. After all, the same dain-bramaged liberals think AIDS happened not because of deviant behavior or drug use, but because of lack of government funding.
Agreed. And thank you for mentioning that it is Brooks, not me, who advances that argument!
Imagine what the Dow would be if not for Congress' disasterous mismanagement of the Economy.
Is it child abuse when you tax families so heavily they can barely afford to feed, clothe, and house their children properly?
Is it child abuse when you tax families so heavily that most of them cannot afford to send their children to private schools, so they must go to public schools where they will be taught the virtues of unlimited sex and the virtues of being gay or lesbian or having an operation so they can be transgendered?
I think a better case might be made that high taxes are a form of child abuse.
What's really funny about the capital gains tax cut is that revenues from that tax increased after the cut. The tax was ahead of the Laffer Curve, a place that no tax has any reason to be, ever. Translation: rate went down, receipts went up. The government was taking a smaller slice of a larger pie. That means more money for those oh-so-vital federal programs that Brooks loves so much.
Does Brooks want less money for government programs for children? Is she... a child abuser?
"They slashed the estate tax and the capital gains tax, selling these cuts with an advertising campaign that misled ordinary people into thinking the cuts were going to help working Americans, instead of just the rich."
She fails to bring up the point that most of these 'ordinary people' DON'T PAY ANY INCOME TAXES!!!
Liberal government bow-wows know how to take care of your kids better than you do. That's the message.
I think some Freepers should actually, you know, read the articles before commenting on them, then.
What really gets me about the Brooks article is the way she works in the Foley non sequitur. There is nothing new to say about Foley, (that will help the Democrats), but she manages to keep it in view.
Exactly. It's really a stretch, but also a common journalistic ploy. Take the big story of the day, and find a way to work it into your spiel.
Exactly. I might seem touchy on this, but things got really bad the other day. I posted a column in which I had criticized a Boston Globe columnist's criticism of the Catholic Church, and a poster here said "figures someone named Finkelstein would criticize the Catholic church." Arghh!!!
Any time. I too have been on the receiving end of mistaken attribution. It sucks more crap than toilets, lemme tell ya.
Rosa Brooks had better check in with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the homosexual lobby's official spin machine, to get her bearings.
They'll explain to her that slipping the pants off an underage boy is cultural enrichment and a necessary part of growing up. Such encounters are especially well-suited as enrichment activities if the pederast gives the boy a little lecture about Greek sexuality first.
I know there's a lot of competition but Rosa Brooks may be the stupidest, most childish person writing a column in a major newspaper. She never fails to advance the logically incoherent argument.
Some MSM types interviewed by Charlie Rose the last couple of nights have stated forthrightly that the Foley thing is straightforward "vote suppression" aimed at cultural conservatives and the so-called "Christian right". That's quintessential gay politics. They hate moral people and want to cut their hearts out.
Yeah, God forbid we give tax cuts so that parents will have more money to take care of their kids. We should leave that responsibility to the government.
Who are these people and where do they come up with this crap?
How dare you place economics before emotions! Why use logic and reason when you can be a moonbat?
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