Posted on 03/04/2009 9:10:03 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Ya don't say. But you knew what you were getting into when you voted for this guy. The American Idol, Entertainment Tonight, People Magazine YouTube crowd knowingly voted for a man who campaigned on the idea of our tax code being based on "fairness." Or on "neighborliness." Or "spreading the wealth around." And it looks like Obama's Treasury Secretary is of the same mindset.
Yesterday, administration officials had to defend Barack Obama's budget. This is the same budget bill that spend an initial $634 million on healthcare reform, which is to be paid for by increasing taxes on evil, filthy, rich monsters.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that Obama's budget reflects "a deep moral imperative to make our society more just. But it's very good economic policy too. It will mean there is again a fairer, more equitably shared tax burden on the vast majority of Americans."
Excuse me, but what in the hell is this tax cheat talking about? "More Just?" Geithner and Obama are absolutely dependent on the ignorance of the American people here. They know that most Americans have no idea in the world who pays what in taxes. No idea. Not a smattering. None.
This is by design. After all ... these people were educated in government-operated schools. It is by design that the American people are so economically ignorant .. not by mistake.
Just take the top 1% of income earners. Even members of congress can't tell you what percentage of the total income they earn. I can, and in a second you will be able to as well. The top 1% of taxpayers - income earners - however you want to phrase it - earn about 20% of the income.
Remember, they provide the bulk of the jobs out there also. How much of the income taxes do they pay? That would be 40%.
So here is this anti-capitalist president of ours and his tax-cheat Treasury Secretary telling us that this just isn't fair, and that for our tax code to be more fair these rich monsters just have to pay a larger share.
And what about this phrase about a "more equitably shared tax burden" ... What is so "equitable" or "shared" about taxing the pants off of the achievers and giving welfare checks to people who pay no taxes at all?
Year after year the proportion of the tax burden on the evil rich increases, and year after year these Democrat tax demagogues talk more about "fairness" and "shared tax burdens." When the bottom 50% of income earners in this country barely pay enough taxes to pave one country road, the burden is not being equitably shared.
Oh but this plan is going to the "vast majority of Americans." Who isn't it going to help? Those people at the top. Your employer. The small business owner who writes your paycheck every month. Those are the people that will not get to share in the joy of an "equitable" tax system.
The blowhard from smallville...
The only ‘fair’ tax is a head tax. Short of that, a flat tax is the next best thing.
I agree. Anything else is not fair.
Maybe. To me the only 'fair' taxes are those that are proportional to the net government services consumed.
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