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To: Tolik
The new leaders of the left, not much different in their lifestyles from those on the elite right, are now almost all multimillionaires.

Even Noam Chomsky has said, "The Republicans are the party of the rich, but the Democrats are the party of the really rich."

3 posted on 03/23/2006 5:26:06 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky

Noam Chomsky, greedy capitalist
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4699


And a hypocrite, too. Peter Sweitzer of Canada’s National Post points to Chomsky’s use of tax-avoiding trsusts, investments, and money-making schemes:

The iconic MIT linguist and left-wing activist frequently has lashed out against the “massive use of tax havens to shift the burden to the general population and away from the rich,” and criticized the concentration of wealth in “trusts” by the wealthiest 1%. He says the U.S. tax code is rigged with “complicated devices for ensuring that the poor—like 80% of the population—pay off the rich.”

But trusts can’t be all bad. After all, Chomsky, with a net worth north of US$2-million, decided to create one for himself. A few years back he went to Boston’s venerable white-shoe law firm, Palmer and Dodge, and, with the help of a tax attorney specializing in “income-tax planning,” set up an irrevocable trust to protect his assets from Uncle Sam. [....]

Chomsky did say that his tax shelter is OK because he and his family are “trying to help suffering people.”

In my experience, liberals are often greedy and immoral in exactly the terms they denounce capitalism. It seems to me they project their own faults onto “the system” and then salve their consciences by adopting political positions to in theory compensate for their own faults.

I have nothing against capitalism, getting rich, or minimizing taxes. But I can’t stand people who criticize others for their own faults.


5 posted on 03/23/2006 6:25:30 AM PST by Valin (Purple Fingers Rule!)
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To: metesky

Remember that when Chomsky criticizes Democrats, he's doing it as someone who sees himself as even farther to the Left, criticizing people who aren't sufficiently Left enough. That's the whole radical position - "there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats so you have to be truely radical like me."


8 posted on 03/23/2006 7:03:50 AM PST by happyathome
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