Bush on troubling path

Someone please refute this guy. I'm too busy right now. It's real easy to get published in this paper.

The dreaded welfare state has been replaced with the “tres chic” police state.

Makes sense to me, just provide welfare for immigrants and terrorists to fight terrorism, short change the cops and firefighters of New York. Whoever said making terrorists rich and cops poor was a sure way of putting this country on the right track is a genius indeed.

You're what I've long referred to as an "emotionally retarded" person. But hey! our forefather's sacrificed so that even the disfunctional could have a voice. God bless America!

Happy Birthday President Reagan.

He has one good point it hurts the ppor most that they pay payroll taxes.

The No-Legacy-for-Bill-Clinton sour grapes truly is an ugly thing. If only their wonderful Bubba had a stack of bodies in which to bite his lip and shed a crocadile tear over! As the saying goes; Life's a Hillary.

Why are you calling Leroy emotionally retarded?

Oooops!

Smokinleroy, I forgot to count to 10 and breath! I apologize if my post came off as directed to you.

I will, however, compose myself and log onto the Butler,PA's web page and "VENT" there.

Joe Conason will sink to any level to get published.

I'm sure Mr. Neel was a big fan of how the Clinton government operated:

Mr. Neel is using the "throw enough mud at someone and some has to stick" technique coupled with the Hitlerian "people are more likely to believe a big lie" methodology.

For example, Mr. Neel states:

Shrubites are bleeding the poor and lower middle class to enrich the people who most heavily invested in their election campaign.

However, the reality of the current day tax burden is as follows:

Who's Paying Taxes

In 1999

Percentiles*	Total Share of AGI	% of Federal Personal Income Tax
Top 1%	19.5%	36.2%
Top 5%	34.0%	55.5%
Top 10%	44.9%	66.5%
Top 25%	66.5%	83.5%
Top 50%	86.8%	96.0%
Bottom 50%	13.2%	4.0%

Source: IRS

*Ranked by adjusted gross income (AGI)

There's a word for this kind of tax system (see the nearby chart). It's called progressive, not to mention confiscatory. What more do liberals like Mr. Neel want? He already has a tax system in which a mere 5% of all earners pay more than half of all taxes, and he wants to soak them some more? This is progressive pig heaven.

It would seem that Mr. Neel, firmly in the grip of Left Wing hysteria, needs to take a break and try to come back to reality.

Perhaps pointing out that Bill Neel was dropped on his head as a child would suffice as a rebuttal.

You could also note that he rode the short bus to school.

I suppose it would be tacky to point out that Bill Neel's parents shared a common set of genes?

As far as refuting his argument is concerned, there is nothing to refute. He sounds like a parrot raised in the DNC war room.

Asinine!

Give it a rest already. Police state, secret police, over spending on our military, raiding social security, tax cuts for the wealthy, and now Enron.

On any given day these words will be used with a few ands, the, and maybes we have a fresh article by another dim liberal democrat.

Just one example is his typical Democrat rhetoric about "tax cuts for the wealthy" versus the "working poor". The reality is that the "working poor" don't pay income taxes. And the recently adopted tax cut cut the lowest tax bracket immediately while phasing in the "tax cuts for the wealthy".

Accordingly we can see the essential bankruptcy of the economic rhetoric.

The comments about "secret police" are patently offensive.

The statistics you have quoted only include Federal income taxes. I'd be curious to see how they change when you include the burden for payroll taxes.

The Enronian Candidate occupying the White House is asking Congress for an extra $48 billion to be given to the Defense Department and a doubling to $38 billion of the secret police budget.

A blank check with no accountability – priceless!

Komrade Neel is just pissed that he got his rear-end spanked really hard in the last election:

Controller
(1 to be elected; 4-year term) [100%]
Bill Neel (D) 9,679
John R. McMillin Jr. (R) 18,488

Hahaha. He's also the local grand poohbah of a capitalist-hating group, I can't remember the name of it. He can be safely ignored, as he's just another liberal who's been rejected by his public.

Payroll taxes are not taxes. They were never meant to be collected to support government. They are an insurance premium on a retirement & disability policy which is all the SS program is. But we have been brainwashed onto thinking they are TAXES. It plays better for the dems that way.

You would, then, that lower income people share NO portion of the tax burden?

How's this for responses (italized)

The “Retroreagan” administration has accomplished its goal in less than a year. The dreaded welfare state has been replaced with the “tres chic” police state.

The Enronian Candidate (nothing like an ad hominem attack when facts don't stick, isn't there?) occupying the White House is asking Congress for an extra $48 billion to be given to the Defense Department (to rebuild the military after the prior 8 years of downright neglect and dishonor by Former president Clinton) and a doubling to $38 billion of the secret police budget.

The increase is probably more than the rest of the world spends on defense, and many times the total military budgets of the administration-defined “evildoers.”(are you advocating that we need our ENEMIES to have the same budget, to make the war tougher, and to lose more AMERICAN lives? Are you serious?)

The gargantuan defense budget will be financed by deficit spending and a raid on the Social Security surplus.(note that even the Balanced Budget Amendment made spending exceptions for times of war, recession, and threats to national security - in hockey parlance, this is the "hat trick" we find ourselves in today)

We’re asked to expect tax cuts for the wealthy while the working poor, who contribute the highest percentage of their incomes for payroll taxes,(for the poor, it's awful hard to give them tax cuts, since most of the poor PAY NO TAXES TO BEGIN WITH) will support the vaguely defined war on terrorism.

The Enron elite sucked their employees and investors dry; the Shrubites are bleeding the poor and lower middle class to enrich the people who most heavily invested in their election campaign.(Let's not forget Enrons MOST favored friend, Former president Clinton, and many other Democrats who also willingly accepted money from Enron's contributors)

It is ironic that a reformed alcoholic(hmm, more ad hominem attacks....no facts to back anything up with, I see...typical) National Guard deserter (funny, I never though of an Honorably Discharged veteran as a "desterter" - I guess I would be classified one, too....) and a group of draft dodgers from the Vietnam era (notably, Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft)(and Former president Clinton wasn't?) should be so jingoistic in pursuit of the ultimate total war algorithm.

They are asking to spend generations of Social Security taxes to develop magic bullets that shoot down other bullets (so, when the terrorist shoot at you, we'll just leave the technology weapons on the drawing board...you won't have anything to complain about that way) and promote their dehumanizing xenophobia.

This benighted oligarchy incants platitudes about a risk-free nirvana that it devines will be a conjuration of their big-business wizards. Look for $1,500 hammers and toilet seats as these greed-obsessed MBAs drain the budget. (Is this anything like the "performance" bonuses Former president Clinton gave to government employees in the most dismal performances ever seen by governmental agencies?)

These amoral performers in three-piece suits use advanced studies in “smoke and mirrors” to finesse the public, but it is just old-fashioned pocket-picking by prestidigitation. (OOooooo...such BIG words!)The magic of Merlin and Harry Potter can’t compare with the mysteries of Harvard Business School (where, by the Way Algore FLUNKED out) or Wharton, where this politically correct sleight of hand is practiced and taught.

In the end, “golden parachutes” for the rich and “collateral damage” for the unfortunate both at home and abroad will be the major objectives of the conflict as in other Bush Wars.

Combining the John Wayne (a draft dodger himself) mythos of Ronald Reagan with the Constitution-shattering paranoia of Richard Nixon (you know, it's funny how only Republicans show on your attack list....could it be, MAYBE, you have a SLIGHT liberal slant? I'm not sure, but there might be something to that....so nice to see you lay out OBJECTIVE arguments) and the voyeurism of J. Edgar Hoover, this administration plans to spend its way into the impoverishment of future generations while they and their associates create the wealth-based inherited aristocracy so feared by our nation’s founders. Bill Neel Butler (sure has great linguistic skills, sounds to me like he's UNDERemployed and bitter)

I cringe every time I read some negative thing about our President!!! I don't want to even read it, and I don't. Why don't people wake up and see that we have an honest man who is just doing the job....I don't think he even cares about reelection....he is such a breath of fresh air...start enjoying it....we will NEVER get the chance again. (I care very much about his reelection and hate to see all the sneering naysayers)