Posted on 02/26/2009 12:48:29 AM PST by Fred
a corruption at all levels ping at you rabscuttle385
Lunacy.
So, does he think all those "evil" rich folks and fat-cat corporate CEOs are going to keep funding charities out of sheer altruism?
Charities such as hospitals, orphan-care groups, et al, will then have to turn where to make up for the drop in funding?
zero ping
Idiocracy. Chump change. Cash out and escape.
The Dems continue their brilliant economic policies of punishing success and rewarding failure.
Watching the Obama Administration is deja vu back to the Clinton Administration....we will be the most ethical Administration ever...blah, blah, etc etc. But so far, the Obama Administration is making the corrupt Clinton Administration look ethical and honest.
Chimp change.
I feel a hint of tyranny in the air.
Screw em! I am bailing out.
And charitable deductions, again, the last thing you should be thinking about when contributing to a worthy cause is how much this will get you off on your taxes.
I would like to see more simplification in taxes, more justifiable tax brackets. And more equality in taxing - two people who earn the same amount of money should be paying a similar amount in taxes, and it really shouldn't take a CPA who has yearly updates on tax law to file one’s taxes.
That being said, I hope that the people hammer their legislators hard to dump this idea. Mostly because I want to make it as impossible as is possible for them to implement what has proved to be an unmitigated disaster everywhere it's been tried. The government is the last entity you want to provide your health care from, they're easily manipulated as public employee salaries and benefits shows - I mean, hell, elected legislators get retirement benefits for being voted into a job. Completely disagree with that, and believe that the only real health reform that can ever happen will be dumping all these barriers for people to see the true cost of their health care.
During the grocery worker's strike, not one of them had the slightest concept of how much their benefits were costing their employers whenever I talked to them, and they were pretty much striking over $50 a month per family - while the grocery stores were paying over $800 a month for their benefits. Not even a tenth of the cost, and they thought that was outrageous.
Liberals have none, and are jealous. They think that only the government should give dollars (with other people's money). Conservatives actually open their own wallets. Besides, charity is discriminatory, demeaning and probably racist. (sarc)
Some of them are not really sure where money comes from but they deserve it - gimme, gimme, gimme....
Others are too sophisticated and elite to worry about such mundane matters, they have to catch their private jet. Let corporations, small businesses and people who actually work worry about it in taxes.
Eventually we will be bankrupt as a nation, then we can start over (just make sure the elites who caused it, stay on their vacation to Europe and do not re-enter the country). The gimme's will learn, starvation and work have a way of doing that. It also cures thinking with your feelings instead of your brains.
I thought, "Oh good, we will finally cut some of those ridiculously wasteful allowances for the beaurocracy"! Wrong! All the cuts that he defined are for the evil rich people and those pesky corporations and businesses.
When do we start hearing about layoffs in Washington DC?
Reducing mortgage interest deductions in the worst housing market in decades.....friggin brilliant move......
As someone exposed to high net worth individuals and their 1040's during the Clinton Boom Years, I got to see what percent this all took from the producers that employed people, and how they lost their deductions.
Moving to the mythical Colorado woods and dropping out looks better every day....
The other possibility is they are idiots about it, and and doubt that, it's on purpose.
Wow, way to force the “charity” come from Benevolent Leader instead of the people.
Are you kidding me? 30 days in and I am longing for the Clinton days.
The “rich” (small business owners) lost all these deductions long ago. Nobody cared. Now they’re coming for you. Life’s a bitch.
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