Editorial: Democrats Are Obsessed With Raising Taxes

IBD Editorials ^ | July 22, 2011 | Staff

[Kaslin]

Debt Talks: The House-passed spending control plan rejected by the Senate is exactly what Republicans were elected to do last November. The president's obsession with tax increases repudiates the will of the people.

Like a headmaster in chief of some Dickensian orphanage, President Obama earlier this month told us to "eat our peas" — meaning accept the tax increases we know are good for us.

Socialism has always come down to contempt for the will of the people, to a benevolent elite force-feeding its enlightened policies down the throats of the masses.

Karl Marx himself once dismissed free elections as merely "deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in parliament."

A CNN/ORC poll this week directly contradicted the media template that most Americans think tax increases are good for them. It found that 66% support the cut, cap and balance bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives but was killed in the Democrat-controlled Senate on Friday.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called it "one of the worst pieces of legislation to be brought to the floor of the U.S. Senate." It "violates the spirit of our Constitution," he said. Why? One reason: The cut, cap, balance solution doesn't raise taxes.

[Happy Rain]

Democrats are shiftless fertile whores who keep having babies they can control but can't afford—so they force bread-winner daddy to keep upping the child support.
As the babies grow they love momma as she raises them to be sorry-ass bums on daddy's dime.
Then they get old enough to vote.

[griswold3]

This is all about an election ‘read my lips’ redux.
Obama, you lose.

[Caipirabob]

What do we expect from scumbag socialists? We all know that we can never resolve our differences with socialist evil in the political arena. Tick-tock, Tick-tock, Tick-tock...

[gunnyg]

FUBO!

[Belteshazzar]

Someone should do a movie remake of the old Disney cartoon favorite with the following roles, beginning with the title role:

Snow White: Barack Hussein Obama
Sneezy: Jay Carney
Sleepy: Nancy Pelosi
Dopey: Joe Biden
Doc: Tim Geitner (cast against type)
Happy: Ben Bernanke
Bashful: Hilary Clinton
Grumpy: Harry Reid

Alternate possibility, same cast: Robin and the Seven Hoods.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

Socialism has always come down to contempt for the will of the people

and, from one of our many perceptive FReepers:

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it." -- H. L. Mencken

Not almost; and for "urge" read "self-proclaimed desire".

[ought-six]

Democrats believe in punishing success and rewarding failure. They are all about robbing the productive to give to the unproductive. For the first time in American history, the users and takers outnumber the producers and makers, and that majority are the Democrats’ eager lemmings.

[Clintonfatigued]

The title is so, so true.

[Libloather]

RATS have to break their addiction to domestic taxes.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Karl Marx himself once dismissed free elections as merely "deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in parliament."

Marx or no, it's a great quote, and accurate when representative governments go awry.

[combat_boots]

You. Yes you. You have something I want so that I can go do this thing over here. Give it to me. Now. Or I will take it from you.

There was a video of a Code Pinko actually hitting an older veteran in a military cap. He was confronting her. She was screaming that he should “stop hitting me!” His arms were at his side, and she kept hitting HIM.

The real problems that no one is addressing ‘seriously’ are 1) our actual debt, and 2) there will NEVER be enough money for all the unicorn fairyland totalitarian sh!t the Dem/communists want to do. Never ever.

[ripley]

“Democrats Are Obsessed With Raising Taxes”

Correction: “Democrats Continue Collective Psychosis”

IMHO

[thirst4truth]

The debt battle of 2011 is all about getting Republicans to betray their spending and tax promises so that Barack Obama can be re-elected in 2012.

I know this, lets hope Bohener(sp)does.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Obama loves taxes and punishing success.

[SatinDoll]

“The debt battle of 2011 is all about getting Republicans to betray their spending and tax promises so that Barack Obama can be re-elected in 2012.”

“I know this, lets hope Bohener(sp)does.”

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Oh, I believe he does know, but the nearly overwhelming concern everyone has in Congress right now appears to be not to crash the economy. Saying they’re scared would be putting it mildly. No doubt they’re getting pelted with opinions from all directions but the main purpose now should be to hold firm - no taxes raised, cut all superfluous spending.