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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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?
The left doesn't see income taxes as a way of generating tax revenue. They see them as a way of punishing those who "take too much wealth for themselves".
"Shiny-side-out" bump!
Oh..governs!You should have told me and I would go back to the early days of explaining to others why you watched Perky Katie on Today..to keep an eye on the enemy so we won't have to!
I have been so busy lately I am not keeping up, I see!!