OK, I guess you answered my questions. I don’t think we disagree really. I’ve pissed you off, and I apologize for that. Yes, ultimately I would say take the deal about the 250K’ers, but I’d rather see it raised to a million because of those sole proprietors I was talking about - they get killed by tax increases. And there was not much in your post I don’t agree with. BUT - I think if we were able to slash the tax rates across the board we would see economic activity, REAL economic activity start driving the economy forward. I got irritated under Bush that people would really dog him for the economy when it was actually pretty darned good. And now people that Bashed Bush for his economic policies refuse to hold this a-hole to the same standard. I don’t like that. Hell, things weren’t perfect under Bush, but they never will be until Jesus comes back. But where I take issue is taxing “the rich” more because “they can afford it.” If anything I think the tax ought to be pushed downward because everybody needs to have some skin in the game. And I think if you don’t PAY taxes you shouldn’t get to vote. Because voting essentially determines how MY money is going to be spent and if you aren’t kicking in anything, you need to go to the back of the bus.
Since last we exchanged opinions, things have escalated to a new level as it is discovered that the Federal Reserve secretly printed up more than three trillion dollars in totally unsecured funny money for Santa Dubya and Santa Obama to take around in the airborne presidential sleigh with eight tiny reindeer. $160 billion to General Electric and (presto!) GE becomes the fanatically dedicated "green" pushing corporation along with its subsidiaries NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, none of which saw fit to inform Joe Sap in the general American public as to how the dollar is being devastated by such schemes.
We have thus secretly bailed out the privileged of most NYC investment banks, European Central Banks, European Union, and a lot of other swell and fashionable folks. Their mansions lifestyle in the Hamptons (or on the French and Spanish Rivieras or the Isle of Capri will be saved for another season as the economy for ordinary folks is destroyed along with meaningful employment, American manufacturing activity, the REAL economy and REAL production, not the carefully preserved elitist paper-shuffling.
Why don't we start toward your goal of voter reduction more modestly? Anyone receiving a welfare check (not a taxed Social Security check) ought not be allowed to vote for two years after the last check is received. The government would then be elected by those who fund it. This is a moderate position since it does not give multiple votes to high income folks.
Also, this week's "food safety" bill needs to be defunded immediately in January even if we are going to be accused of trying to kill poor children by "protecting corrupt food producers." The enforcement agents for this monstrosity will be new employees of Homeland Security Department, not FDA, not Agriculture but the ever more empowered brown shirts of Homeland Security. Apparently it is a combination of Archer Daniels Midland and Monsanto (now largely owned by George Soros) who pushed this monstrosity which will put large numbers of small farmers out of business and massively raise the price of the food on the ordinary Americans' tables and also require lots of Monsanto products to be purchased by farmers who can not afford them and do not need them. Almost every one of my neighbors is working small farms but not for long if this nonsense survives.
Remember when Obamao said we needed a domestic security force as large, as well-funded, and as well armed as the US military, but not the military? Good jobs at good wages terrorizing Americans, jobs filled by leftist losers yearning to destroy your freedoms and mine. This is what he meant and is another down payment on his dream of quasi military suppression of the unruly American public. Food fascism? Homeland Security! Bring your genitals to the airport ready to be scanned, photoed and/or groped? Homeland Security! What's next? Gummint skewel curricula overseen by Homeland Security thugs?
The $3 trillion printing orgy of the Fed is more than four times what the "tax cut for the rich" is supposed to cost over the next decade. Rush and Sean and the other talk show hosts are obsesses with that one tax provision because it affects them. To Rush's credit, he took time away from the non-stop tax whining to note the Fed's shenanigans. I have no interest or desire to see a 4.5% hike in taxes on the income of people who are doing well in life but it is not the only issue out there that needs immediate attention, nor is it the most important.