Posted on 02/19/2010 6:17:57 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
A trend is beginning to develop in the media reports concerning Joe Stack, the man who allegedly smashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas: his disgust for capitalism and support of communism must be ignored at all cost.
As NewsBusters previously reported, both Time.com and a blog posting at the Washington Post have conveniently skipped two crucial sentences at the end of Stack's suicide note:
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Clearly, Stack was no friend of capitalism. Yet, similar to other media members, CNN's Rich Sanchez and Ali Velshi addressed much of Stack's suicide note during "CNN Newsroom" Thursday EXCEPT for the part where he expressed his support for communism (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
They MSM is going to use this guy as a weapon against the Tea Party. Time to fight back.
Sanchez tried to make this guy a right wing nutjob.Of course,Sanchez would have gotten drunk and run them down with his car!
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The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. “
Hasn't that been Obama’s theme in speeches for the pas t several years up until and including whatever one he gives today? (he never lets a day go by without giving us the opportunity of seeing his face and Mussolini's pose,)
No one expects CNN to deliver a balanced report anymore...that is one reason their ratings suck.
Joe Stack was not a communist. Nor was he against free markets. Most likely he opposed both BIG Government and BIG Capitalism. He saw himself as a small businessman and hated all the tax madness.
The tax madness is one of the reasons I don't come out of retirement and re-open my business. It is NUTZ!! and **very** expensive just to keep track of it all.
Also...I resent being the government's unpaid tax collector.
I keep waiting for the mainstreams to tag this guy as a Rush Ditto-Head or founder of the Tea Party movement. One or the other — I’m sure they’ll find a way.
It is impossible burdensome and complex regulations that create the very barrier to entry into small business which HOBBLES the US economy. A section like 1706 is a very big part of it.
Only bigger companies can bear the record keeping and regulatory tracking burden, for a sole proprietor or small business it is TOO EXPENSIVE.
These two so called journalists were picking up various sentences from the manifesto and bringing up health care, Enron, etc. It was sickening to watch the smarmy Sanchez and his cohort spinning like mad.
Notice tho that they are not referring to his web posting as a manifesto so as not to link him with the Unibomber.
I wonder how many small business people would feel the same if the FairTax was instituted.
Joe Stack was a lunatic who killed innocent people. Anything else is mostly conjectural BS.
Actually, we collect sales taxes now.
The process of collecting sales tax is really very straight forward, and the Fair Tax would eliminate **all** the other burdens of managing employee wage tax returns.
By the way, when was the last time you read a bitter editorial or letter to the editor from a small business person complaining about the burden of collecting sales taxes? Hm? Never?
How many pennies out of each dollar collected does it cost government and the employer just to collect and manage these income tax revenues?
With the Fair Tax nearly the entire IRS bureaucracy would be dismantled. Nearly all of the record keeping, CPA, and wage tax handling expenses would disappear. The government would receive 50 checks from 50 states each year and that would be the end of it.
Yes, there would be some policing but it would far far far less than the personally intrusive and burdensome IRS investigations that we have now.
And...Everyone would get fairly hit by the sales taxes...even the criminals.
Would some cheat? Yes, of course! But..It would be like poaching deer out of season. Just as the honest hunters look out for and report illegal poaching so would honest sales tax payers. Unlike the IRS and income tax, sales taxes are far more open, harder to hide, and more transparent.
No. He left a note. It’s not clear that he was a lunatic either.
As they (and the rest of the LSM) did with Van Jones and Anita Dunn.
Rich Sanchez never uses facts only his mouth.
He set fire to his house, with his wife and step-daughter, still inside. I don’t know about you, but that action alone, kind of SCREAMS lunatic, to me. Also, purposely piloting an airplane into a structure is, by definition, not a sane act. Regardless of his perceived(HIS perception, not yours)motive, the fact is that he tried to kill civilians that were complete strangers to him. That is attempted murder, no matter how you slice it.
Do not give the lefties any extra, unearned ammunition against the Tea Parties, or any other conservatives, for that matter, by trying to justify any portion of Mr. Stack’s motives or actions.
Sorry, his break wasn’t such a easy thing to say ‘lunatic’ about. Maybe something like Huntington’s disease.
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