Just a few things
I simply cannot stand any more of these "tax cut" debates and rants. Let's make it clear and without the leftist spin placed on the matter by the lapdog liberals of the media:
Our current rates are what they are. Call it level X. If by inaction, they rise ... then the choice/deed of inaction causes taxes to rise, then it would be a tax rate increase. A tax hike. If by action they were allowed to remain the same, then it is taxes remaining the same -- a choice made by the relevant legislators. If they were to decrease, then that too, would be an action, a deed. So by "forcing Obama" to sign the extension, we are not making a tax cut. We are not "GIVING" tax breaks to the rich, or for that matter anyone.
Taxes are the UNNATURAL state of affairs. The neutral state is no taxes -- taxes by their nature are an affirmative action to take money from one group of people to spend on the common good or to distribute to others. That is reality.So any time a body imposes taxes on others, it is not a gift in any way sense or word: it is a taking. If unwilling, it is a form of state-sanctioned theft. Feel differently? Well on your tax return you are able to fill in the blank for what you would willingly give -- EXTRA -- to the the IRS. I would be willing to bet that the percentage of people in the USA filling any number into that blank would be less than 1/10 of 1%. Which means that all those Democrats and Liberals who loudly proclaim how important and civic minded the tax system is, miss the essential point: they don't walk the walk. They don't send in whatever sum they made in the previous year that is surplus to their needs. That would be the ultimate extension of their belief system. Therefore they are hypocrites.
For my part, I don't want to fund blueberry research in Maine. I don't want to fund bridges to nowhere. I don't want to extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks. I don't want to provide free medical care for persons in this country illegally. I don't want to pay for ballots and RMV license documentation in two languages or poultry marketing in Korea. Or pay for Pelosi's 757. I want to cut government spending to infrastructure and military -- with precious little else. You corn farmers out in Iowa? You don't deserve subsidies to produce corn to make ethanol that we don't need.
Speech should be free. Freedom to hate as well as love -- the limit of such freedom where it physically hurts another, either way. Where the population becomes inured to yet another taking, another removal of property and rights, we become a herd of sheep to be ruled by elites in Washington. I do not want this for my children.
Our current rates are what they are. Call it level X. If by inaction, they rise ... then the choice/deed of inaction causes taxes to rise, then it would be a tax rate increase. A tax hike. If by action they were allowed to remain the same, then it is taxes remaining the same -- a choice made by the relevant legislators. If they were to decrease, then that too, would be an action, a deed. So by "forcing Obama" to sign the extension, we are not making a tax cut. We are not "GIVING" tax breaks to the rich, or for that matter anyone.
Taxes are the UNNATURAL state of affairs. The neutral state is no taxes -- taxes by their nature are an affirmative action to take money from one group of people to spend on the common good or to distribute to others. That is reality.So any time a body imposes taxes on others, it is not a gift in any way sense or word: it is a taking. If unwilling, it is a form of state-sanctioned theft. Feel differently? Well on your tax return you are able to fill in the blank for what you would willingly give -- EXTRA -- to the the IRS. I would be willing to bet that the percentage of people in the USA filling any number into that blank would be less than 1/10 of 1%. Which means that all those Democrats and Liberals who loudly proclaim how important and civic minded the tax system is, miss the essential point: they don't walk the walk. They don't send in whatever sum they made in the previous year that is surplus to their needs. That would be the ultimate extension of their belief system. Therefore they are hypocrites.
For my part, I don't want to fund blueberry research in Maine. I don't want to fund bridges to nowhere. I don't want to extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks. I don't want to provide free medical care for persons in this country illegally. I don't want to pay for ballots and RMV license documentation in two languages or poultry marketing in Korea. Or pay for Pelosi's 757. I want to cut government spending to infrastructure and military -- with precious little else. You corn farmers out in Iowa? You don't deserve subsidies to produce corn to make ethanol that we don't need.
Speech should be free. Freedom to hate as well as love -- the limit of such freedom where it physically hurts another, either way. Where the population becomes inured to yet another taking, another removal of property and rights, we become a herd of sheep to be ruled by elites in Washington. I do not want this for my children.
posted by Zaphod at Saturday, December 18, 2010
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