Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Barack Obama: “If we're not willing to ask those who've done extraordinarily well to help America close the deficit, the logic, the math says everybody else has to do a whole lot more.”
Right. The 47% of people who aren’t paying taxes at all need to be maintained as net recipients of taxpayer money in order to solidify the Democrat base. Then, slice off a chunk of the remaining 53% by holding the lower brackets steady and presenting the tab to those “malefactors of great wealth” who earn – What’s the benchmark today? A million dollars, annually? $250,000? – and hope that they don’t go John Galt. No, no. No class warfare here.
Seriously, this is absolutely nuts. Quite aside from the fact that even if you confiscated the income of everybody who makes over $1 million per year, you wouldn’t make a dent in the deficit, the stratagem relies, with mind-blowing stupidity, on taxpayer stasis – i.e., the assumption that people who get clobbered with higher taxes won’t change their behavior at all. And even the dubious math pales in comparison to the outrageous injustice of thinking that you should be able to confiscate huge amounts of somebody else’s money just because you can.
Obama’s going to be presented with the biggest “intervention” in history, come November of 2012 – unless there are still a few Democrats left who have something resembling a survival instinct, and are willing and able to convince him to withdraw now. Which ain’t gonna happen, by the way – and, frankly, I don’t want it to. The election next year needs to be about Obama as the personification and apotheosis of liberal ideology, and I don’t want to see the Democrats clouding the ideological issues by sticking a new face out there, especially Hillary’s.
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One has to think that the millionaires around the nation are looking to squirrel their wealth overseas.
ReplyDelete"Voting with their feet" is extremely effective, but the Demonrats just don't get that.
You only have to look at all the British ex-pat millionaires from when They had a 90% income tax on the rich. They all fled to Switzerland, America and so on. Status Quo's bass player even hid out in Castle Hill, west of Sydney!
ReplyDeleteUmmm... I'm not sure you can classify Hilary's face as new exactly.
ReplyDeleteNancy's yes. Her face is renewed every time she bathes in virgin's blood, (although I do hear that she's had so many facelifts she has a beard), but Hilary's? nah.
wv = diesel. No comment.
I agree, Paco. Obama needs to stay in the running, and he needs to keep giving speeches about taxing the rich and corporate jet owners, with a speech thrown in here and there about the dumb white hicks in flyover country. I don't want the Democrats to have a ghost of a chance to win the 2012 election, because we need to be rid of "progressivism" once and for all.
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