What I find most frightening about the current state of our country is how few people actually pay income taxes. I realize their is plenty of blame to go around for this. George W.’s last round of tax breaks pushed more people into this category and it is higher than it ever was at this point. If this number gets to be over 50%, which I believe Zero is hell bent on doing, what you are going to have is an electorate, half of who pay no income tax, being told that if you vote for the other party they will force you to pay tax. This is nothing more than economic blackmail and I fear it will have long term negative implications for our country.
The Harvard Law RECORD is the student newspaper of the Harvard Law School, and this was an op-ed column. It’s not the Harvard Law REVIEW, the prestigious legal publication BHO was Pres of. Still, an interesting article.
And the same political agenda drives health care: "The evil Republican people want to take away your baby's doctor -- they want your [insert color here] baby to DIE because they're all heartless, baby-eating white racists!"
In 1964, 'Rat political organizers and campaigners did the same thing with Social Security and welfare, telling Louisiana voters that Barry Goldwater was going to take X and Y away from them if elected.
The Louisiana electorate voted for Barry anyway out of principle. And I distinctly remember, two years later, my college history prof, who had been one of the young smartasses retailing that giant lie for LBJ's campaign, sitting on his desk in the classroom laughing at the rubes and hicks who'd been so stupid they voted against their own self-interest, and voted for Barry Goldwater! What idiots! Ha, ha!
Those old Cajuns had more character on the worst day of their lives than that clown, when he finally stops polluting our oxygen, will ever have wanted to have.
More than anything else, that long-ago moment crystallized for me how rotten is the heart of the Democrat Party. I've despised them utterly ever since, no matter how badly I've been disappointed and disillusioned by the RiNO Party.
No Representation without Taxation
I think you made an excellent point. When so many are not paying any federal income tax it means that they only have a vested interest in how the wealth of those who do pay taxes is redistributed. This is what’s so idiotic about Obama’s “tax cut.” The great majority are not paying any taxes now and will not be getting a refund but a welfare check.