Posted on 04/11/2010 10:42:10 AM PDT by ninonitti
It will be a temple of taxes, a Tax Mahal, as the headline puts it. What a fitting symbol for a government run amok, and in a perfect setting too - the town of Andover, where last year 626 streetlights were turned off because the town couldn’t afford them anymore.
But now the Feds spend $92 million on the same IRS facility where they just eliminated 1,400 jobs. The Internal Revenue Service - all you need to know about Obamacare is that it will create not one single new physician or health-care provider, but it will require hiring new IRS legbreakers . . . er, make that “agents.”
The only “stimulus” this moonbat administration cares about is Big Government. Billions are sucked out of what remains of the economy’s productive sector to pay ever-more-outrageous salaries and benefits to politically correct layabouts who spend all day e-mailing one other and sharpening pencils, assuming they show up at all - a large assumption indeed.
Think of the most posh, ostentatious building in your community. Perhaps it’s the five-star resort masquerading as a state courthouse in Pemberton Square, or the federal Moakley courthouse on Northern Avenue, with its million-dollar harbor views. In the suburbs it might be one of those new $200-million high schools . . . or the IRS “campus” in Andover.
What all these buildings have in common is that they are public-sector, every one constructed with a public-be-damned attitude. Meanwhile, on Main Street, every week you drive by more empty storefronts, not to mention shuttered factories or car dealerships, and further out of town, dying or abandoned malls.
It’s like late-Medieval Europe, with giant cathedrals towering above the squalid thatched-roof hovels that housed the peasants, who were stuck with the tab for the church’s opulence. Like the bishops of old, the modern mandarins of Obama’s welfare state imperiously command us to do as they say, not as they do.
How appropriate that the overseer of this IRS chateau in Andover is Tim Geithner, the U.S. Treasury secretary, one of the many serial tax cheats in the Obama administration. Think Charles Rangel, Hilda Solis, Tom Daschle.
The private sector can’t shake this deep recession, as our bureaucratic grandees revel in unparalleled boom times. Take the Department of Transportation - please. According to USA Today, when the recession began, one DOT employee was making more than $170,000 a year. Eighteen months later, 1,690 DOT employees were earning more than $170,000. Tell me, what exactly do they do? This is not-so-stealth redistribution of wealth, not to mention reparations.
Of course we must spend $92 million in “stimulus” on an IRS playpen in a town where streetlights are now considered an extravagance. Just ask Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, another prototypical empty-pants-suit Democrat. Represents a district she didn’t even live in before she deigned to represent it in the House, and her only qualification is her last name.
Now the IRS will probably audit me. But they do it every year anyway. My crime is working for a living, and not collecting a handout. What can I say except, come and get me, coppers!
Perfect.
Niki Tsongas’ resume has one entry: “Senator’s widow”
“..giant cathedrals towering above the squalid thatched-roof hovels that housed the peasants, who were stuck with the tab for the church’s opulence. “
I don’t believe that is accurate. The selling of indulgences were what paid for the churches of the Medieval Age. That eventually caused the rise of protestant thinking.
But the guilds of that age ARE very much like the unions of this one. Suffocating innovation and closed employment which lead to a decline instead of growth.
ping
The country is broke but the dems still spend money like there is no tomorrow but there is a tomorrow and it will come sooner than the dems think.
The dems will finally pay the piper in November. It could not come a minute too soon.
And your hubby is the biggest pig of all!!!
See here’s the rub. The elected class comes and goes but the bureaucrats stay on. These are career folks who are protected by powerful unions. We need to throw the bureaucrats out too.
George Orwell is laughing his 0ss off in heaven.
They fill pot holes and order tax paid landscaping, attend meetings and sit at desks looking very important
Isn't that worth $170,000 per year?
Talk about missing the point. Wow. What's it like to go through life navel gazing on the head of a pin?
Yeah, it was a bit OT.
You have a problem with that? hahahhahaha
Have you not seen that before?
ok
Besides, aren’t the great cathedrals of the past not unlike the monstrosities the Feds are building according to this article? yes, it is.
shesh
We hope. Me...I'm not so sure. They can always count on approximately 35% of the electorate to vote for them no matter what. Republicans don't have as loyal a core constituency (or one that is as politcally savvy as core leftists).
All too often, a Dem candidate easily gets the other 16 percentage points he/she needs to reach 51% and victory through a combination of:
--> left-leaning independents/centrists who are open to being swayed by the Dem talking points,--> right-leaning independents and conservatives who either vote third party or stay home.
Like it or not, we have a de facto two-party system. So every right-leaning vote that does not go to a Republican benefits the Democrat by reducing the actual number of votes he/she needs in order to go over 50% of the total cast.
Nope. Whatever floats your boat, have at it. I just found your post curiouse, that's all. I mean...the author used a metaphor to make a superb point about the vile IRS, and your comment had to do with whether or not Carr's metaphoric imagry is literally, historically accurate. But like I said, whatever. After all, talking way past a point can sometimes have its quirky charm.
If this keeps up everyone will be working for the government with outstanding benefits and Wall Street like salaries. The only money available for taxes will be generated by the Federal reserve. A gigantic Liberal circle-j**k.
The reformation was as much a German backlash against imperialism by foreign powers as it was a doctrinal dispute.
The coming reformation will be on similar grounds - backlash against Federal imperialism over states with underlying doctrinal disputes against forced conversion to secular humanism and liberal socialism.
I had not thought of that, but the possibility of that kind of reaction today is possible.
I can say as a homeschooler, that wanting to keep the indoctrinationalists out of my daughter’s mind was part of the decision.
Power and religion have always had an nexus, it is just much more disguised today. Secular humanism tries very hard to pretend it is not a power grab.
LOL
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