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Once Self-Reliant, Now A Nation Of Takers
Investors.com ^ | April 7, 2010 | SCOTT A. HODGE

Posted on 04/07/2010 5:19:01 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/07/2010 5:19:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

All hail the recipient!


2 posted on 04/07/2010 5:21:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Let tyrants shake their iron rod, and slavery clank her galling chains)
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To: Kaslin

BTTT


3 posted on 04/07/2010 5:23:20 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kaslin

I call them tax payers and tax users. Tax users includes not just folks on entitlements, but also the ever growing number of gov’t employees (local, state, fed).

Even though gov’t employees pay taxes, their entire earnings are paid to them by tax payers.


4 posted on 04/07/2010 5:24:33 PM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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To: Kaslin

Self reliance is the path out of this mess.


5 posted on 04/07/2010 5:25:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Kaslin

“but the new credits — such as the child tax credit, Making Work Pay credit, and First Time Homebuyer credit — are now exempting middle-class families from the income tax.”

Don’t forget the most costly tax credit (to those who actually pay taxes) which is the Earned Income Tax Credit. It can be as much as $4,800.


6 posted on 04/07/2010 5:26:32 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: Kaslin
Obama is still passing out free ice-cream to his buddies...just on a national level now!

Hey, it's free, right?

7 posted on 04/07/2010 5:26:44 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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Agreed but....”VAT chance”.


8 posted on 04/07/2010 5:28:39 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Self reliance can do some serious damage to any tax structure.

If you can grow it, grow it. If it can be fixed, fix it. If you can do without, then go without.


9 posted on 04/07/2010 5:33:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Kaslin

Support single payer government schools? Your a taker.


10 posted on 04/07/2010 5:33:34 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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All Democrats and all RINOs are takers. Vote every one out.


11 posted on 04/07/2010 5:39:20 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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12 posted on 04/07/2010 5:50:10 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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I’m recalling a Heinlein quote that goes something like this”

“There are makers, fakers, and takers. Makers create wealth. Fakers have jobs that pretend to contribute, like government jobs or lawyers but really add nothing. Takers make no pretense, they just take. When the fakers and the takers outnumber the makers, your society is doomed....”


13 posted on 04/07/2010 5:52:13 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Don’t worry. If they pass a VAT tax, no doubt there will be a mechanism where the low income can get a rebate on that too when they file their returns.


14 posted on 04/07/2010 5:57:11 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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Yup. More of the phony “Earned Income Credit”. Pure redistribution of income.

Too bad we can't junk the bloated Unconstitutional entitlements though, and give self-reliance another chance.

15 posted on 04/07/2010 6:06:19 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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Self reliance is the path out of this mess.

Please explain. My views could be summarized by this statement. Thanks.

16 posted on 04/07/2010 6:07:51 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Kaslin

Not only are they “takers” robbing their productive neighbors, they are contemptuous of the values that made the “givers” productive. They are picking our pockets with one hand, and flipping us off with the other.


17 posted on 04/08/2010 9:51:10 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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The fakers are trying to get the takers to start contributing to the tax pool.

The takers now want the faker’s jobs and their benefits.But since the fakers don’t want to retire and they are jealous about their privileges.

In a fight between a slug and a leech does it matter who wins?


18 posted on 04/08/2010 12:09:07 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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The combined total of fakers and takers long ago exceeded the makers in this country.


19 posted on 04/08/2010 12:25:10 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: Kaslin

Takers = thieves.


20 posted on 04/08/2010 12:40:23 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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