Posted on 05/06/2003 11:11:14 PM PDT by DPB101
Senator Tom Daschle and his wife, big money airline lobbyist Linda Daschle, have just purchased a seven-room house valued at $2,250,000 in DC. (Tom says he paid a humble $1.9m.) Not bad for a public servant who earns around $170,000 a year. It makes you realize why the pair doesn't release their income tax reports.
Tom & Lin have a huge pool of money in the bank even as they're pushing taxes on that which would help you accumulate wealth: income. I guess Linda is doing pretty well lobbying the government to give out money to the airlines even as they're losing billions, declaring bankruptcy, firing workers and demanding employee give backs. I don't begrudge anyone buying a nice house - and that's the point: the Democrats do.
They don't want you getting yours even as they lavish millions on luxury. Your tax bill can never go down so you can put a little money away, because Daschle knows how to spend your money better than you do. There's no tax on the wealth of Democrats like John Kerry ($675 million), but there is a tax on wealth creation: the income tax. The Democrats don't want you creating your own wealth.
They want you poor and dependent and looking to the government when you need to buy a house, etc. It's sad to say but it's true. The way they've set it up, there is never a time for tax cuts. When there's a surplus, they say we can't "waste it" on tax cuts for people whose overpayment of taxes caused the surplus. When there's a deficit, they say the government can't "afford" to do with less so America's families will just have to tighten their belts. It's hypocrisy, and we're here to say so.
Not bad, presumably their main home is in South Dakota. Which would make this is their second home. They must have quite a spread in South Dakota.
What's Sen. Daschle trying to hide?
SIOUX FALLS - Is Sen. Tom Daschle trying to hide something? When recent reports - premature as they were - came out about a potential issue ad campaign highlighting Sen. Daschle's liberal record, the Senate minority leader reacted harshly and quickly.
Just the mere suggestion that the Rushmore Policy Council might pull the curtain open to expose the window to his political soul had him unleashing the attack dogs within days. A "Special Alert" from Daschle's office urged his supporters to go out on the attack. "Send money." "Write letters to the editor." "Call talk radio." "Stand up to the extreme groups," the alert pleaded.It's quite apparent that Sen. Daschle doesn't want us to know that he was the keynote speaker at the country's largest homosexual activist organization's annual banquet last year in Los Angeles. Perhaps he's afraid people might remember how he rebuked the Boy Scouts of America and Salvation Army for their Christian beliefs about sexual morality.
Certainly, he doesn't want people to be reminded that last year he credited the pro-abortion group EMILY's List as the primary reason for him being elevated to highest leadership post in Congress. And he definitely doesn't want us to know that he sent out a fund-raising letter on behalf of the National Abortion Rights Action League.
Oh, and the taxes he has raised on senior citizens' retirement benefits? He certainly wouldn't want that to get out.
His support for the death tax? When four out of five people in his home state are against it? Shhhhhhhh.
You see, our senator thinks we're not paying attention. Or so said one of his staffers to South Dakota media when asked if he thought there would be public backlash for his obstruction of judicial nominee Miguel Estrada.
Didn't we fight this war in 1776? If they want the fight again, let's get it on.
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