MSNBC's Bashir Suggests Founding Fathers Would Favor Obama's Push for Tax Hike on Rich

newsbusters ^ | 9/20/2011 | By Ken Shepherd

[tobyhill]

British-born MSNBC afternoon anchor Martin Bashir devoted his September 20 "Clear the Air" commentary to clouding the issue of raising taxes by citing the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution's that bans Congress from granting titles of nobility (video follows page break):

It's time now to "Clear the Air." And with Republicans declaring that class warfare has been started by President Obama, after he suggested that Warren Buffett should at least pay the same amount of tax as his secretary, I was reminded of an American history class that I took in my final year of high school in London.

During one lesson, we were introduced to Article 1 and Section 9 of the American Constitution and were told that this was one of the most important clauses designed to end the aristocratic and class-ridden approach to society that had defined Great Britain during the 18th century.

[scooby321]

Martin Martin why do you think they had a revoltion against your Country?

Taxes????

[WOBBLY BOB]

I bet Marty flunked his history class.

[YellowRoseofTx]

The meaning and concept just zinged right over his head

[tobyhill]

“Indeed no federal income tax implemented until the Civil War, and that tax was repealed 10 years later. It was only with the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913 that income taxes received iron-clad constitutional authorization.”

[WKUHilltopper]

What uneducated and parroting fools.

[gusopol3]

Not only the Founding Fathers, Jesus would, too.

[econjack]

Martin Bashir devoted his September 20 "Clear the Air" commentary to clouding the issue of raising taxes by citing the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution's that bans Congress from granting titles of nobility ...

Man, no matter how you look at it, this is really a stretch.

[tobyhill]

I can’t even come close to stretching that far.

[SVTCobra03]

“Not only the Founding Fathers, Jesus would, too.”

Wrong. Jesus would say that charity must come from the heart. That means voluntary giving; not legalized theft and redistribution of wealth.

[kearnyirish2]

“That means voluntary giving; not legalized theft and redistribution of wealth.”

That’s right; He didn’t suggest that the injured man on the road was the community’s problem, though He lauded the man who assisted him.

[kearnyirish2]

Did he mention whether or not they’d be allowed to pay with slaves they owned instead of cash?

Some people have no idea what (or who) our founding fathers represented.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All Liberals ever think about is money.

Other people's money.

[gusopol3]

But you don't know Jesus the way Bashir knows Jesus.

[APatientMan]

Who is stopping Warren Buffett from paying more taxes? It’s an outrage!

[Red Dog #1]

kearnyirish2,
I'm pretty confident SVTCobra03 was engaging in some pretty dry sarcasm.

RD

[TexasCajun]

Martin Bashir’s Flying Circus !!

[MAKOTHEDOG]

Life, Liberty and Property. Nice try Bashir.

[Billthedrill]

Uh, Martin? To the best of my knowledge no one in the country, however wealthy, has been granted a title of nobility, which had nothing to do with taxation anyway. Try reading the Federalist Papers if you want to know how the Founders felt about taxation. This isn't a matter for imagining what you'd like to think they might have thought, it's a matter of hard record, put into words by men who were specific, precise, and articulate about it. Taxing "the wealthy" for being wealthy would have been an idea as foreign to them as Kabuki and just as incomprehensible.

[kearnyirish2]

I responded to Jesus not demanding charity by force; I agreed with his assertion (on a serious level).