Posted on 11/11/2006 9:59:00 AM PST by Fred
o: National Desk
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by John Kartch of ATR:
Democrats rested on Wednesday following their victory to take over both houses of Congress. But sure enough by Thursday the calls for tax increases were put on the table by the Democrats' top economic advisor, Robert Rubin. Rubin served as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton Administration and as an advisor to failed presidential candidate John Kerry.
The decision to wait until after the elections to mention tax increases should come as a surprise to no one since Rubin suggested this exact tactic during the Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. Rubin said:
"I don't think you can make proposals to try to dig out of this hole until you've gotten elected and until you've organized effectively across both parties and both houses. If you start to put out proposals now, they would be vigorously attacked, and they would in effect become tainted so they couldn't be used." Source: Rich Miller, "Robert Rubin: Embrace Kerry," Business Week Online, 8/2/04
"Liberals are doing exactly what Rubin suggested in 2004 and what conservatives tried to emphasize throughout the entire course of the 2006 election cycle," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. "Clearly, Rubin views his position on taxes as unacceptable to the American people or he wouldn't have advocated keeping their plans a secret until after being elected."
Americans are now in jeopardy of experiencing a $2,000 tax increase if some or all of the President's tax cuts are not made permanent. All the tax cuts are set to expire by the end of 2010. Furthermore, the new Congressional leadership is advocating tax increases wrapped under different guises such as the "Tax Gap" and "Tax Reform." Despite their poll-tested rhetoric, the fact is these proposals are designed to extract higher levels of tax payments from the American public.
"Democrats dressed up like Republicans on the tax issue during the campaign and emphasized they would not raise taxes. Somehow the new leadership believes they have a mandate to raise taxes on working American families, continued Norquist. "Despite repeated rhetoric by Pelosi and Rangel in the final weeks of the campaign claiming they will not raise taxes, it is becoming clearer each and every single day that tax increases will be on the table."
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ATR is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all federal, state and local tax increases. For more information or to arrange an interview, contact John Kartch at 202-785-0266 or at jkartch@atr.org.
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Having been a teacher for 19 years, I know that some kids would benefit more from working than from spending another year in a classroom. Instead of changing compulsory attendance to 18, Lynch and his education cronies ought to focus instead on work-study arrangements.
Dems want to raise taxes; sun rises in the east. Dems live to raise taxes for one specific reason: the more money they can take away from people, the more power they have to exert influence and make people dependent on them. Simple as that. Dems aren't interested in solving problems. They're interested in creating them.
I'm for a flat tax...and make it low----and no more loopholes for anyone.
How's that?
I read this all the time and it makes me so angry. The people who actually pay taxes didn't vote for anything of the sort. A democrat swing as we had this year might consitute 25% of them voting for socialists instead of the usual 20%.
The vast bulk of people lobbying and voting to pay more taxes aren't the good hearted and selfless out to give something back to society, they're the ever growing ranks of tax recepients who are voting on their own livelyhood.
Saying people voted to raise their taxes implies at least a modicum of consent. The only consent that is actually going on is acquiescence with the robbery because the alternative is federal prison.
Frankly, I am serious disinclined at this point to do ANYTHING to help them stop it. These rich self important pompous twits did everything they could to achieve this result, let them reap as they have sown.
""If they wait, they will be committing suicide."
Preemption certainly seems be necessary if Israel is to survive.
Michael Frazier"
Michael, this is the most undercovered reality of this election. Israel will be destroyed by Iran and Syria if they leave their fate to the rats. They are not suicidal and will not allow the 2nd cleansing of Jews to happen while liberals in charge look the other way.
I *notice* every penny that the government gets out of my paycheck.
And then, to have the money handed back to me again in the form of student loans...with interest? WTF?
Sigh. It's supposed to be my money, right?
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's.
Except according to the 'Rats, those folks are "rich" and ought to pay their "fair share."
The income tax system does not tax the wealthy; it taxes those who have high income. Some may be wealthy, but many others might just be climbing out of the lower income ranges.
To a lesser extent, the federal financial aid system for students penalizes "high" income. A family of four in Manhattan with $5 million in property and cash on hand but zero income (just living off the accumulated cash) will get Pell grants while a family in Northern Virginia with both parents working, making $150,000 annually, will get slapped with student loans.
The question of the night is: how much of the extra tax money was actually spent on roads here in Northern Virginia?
(I am willing to bet on...zero.)
See comment # 69, or below:
...the federal financial aid system for students penalizes "high" income. A family of four in Manhattan with $5 million in property and cash on hand but zero income (just living off the accumulated cash) will get Pell grants while a family in Northern Virginia with both parents working, making $150,000 annually, will get slapped with student loans.
IMHO, the folks with money already find ways to hang on to their money. The income tax penalizes folks who try to move up the social ladder, and the college financial aid system penalizes kids who attempt to work their way through college or attempt to avoid debt in college.
So this gives the really rich people time to hide their money in tax free shelters.
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No I think it's worse than that. The truly rich don't have to work, that's the point! Since most of these taxes are on income, not on wealth, they are totally unscathed...
My #2 son experienced the latter problem. He returned from his tour in Kuwait/Iraq with the USMC Reserves and found a job at In-and-Out Burger. He tried the community college approach, but found it to be little more than a super high school. He took a more ambitious approach. He studied and passed the real estate sales license exam. He then took a position at a real estate office where he was paid $500 per closing. The broker was pocketing the big commissions. My son decided to turn the experience into an "on the job training" opportunity. Soon, he was running the office. Still, the broker pocketed the commissions and never credited him on the paperwork with the sales he was closing. He earned enough to start working on a BS in Business Administration with augmentation from his GI bill and student loans. Because he had an income, the repayment cycle for the student loans started almost immediately.
Fast forward to Nov 2005. He took the CA real estate broker's license and passed the exam. He opened his own real estate office and hired good sales and loan staff. He finished his courses in May 2006 and walked through commencement exercises in July 2006.
He continues to pay the student loans. It will take 5 more decent commissions to retire his student loans. It wasn't easy. It wasn't handed to him on silver platter. It took hard work and discipline. He is now the employer of 26 people with two corporations...at age 23. He's also still a LCPL in the USMC Reserves.
When his hitch in the USMC Reserves ends in July 2007, he intends to apply to law school. The reason for waiting is that he wants to go to better law schools than he can find in San Diego. His reserve obligations are at MCAS Miramar.
Ping for later printout/reference. I need to show this to my boss - a 60-something-year-old woman who was raised on the southside of Chicago and doesn't seem to understand why she should not vote for Dem-mies.
Monday morning bump
Somebody has to pay for all of those ILLEGALS.
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