JiangxiDad on October 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM

Oh no, I wasn’t accusing you of plagiarism at all….I’ve certainly said such a thing in the past, but so have you and a few others. I was just glad to see you raise the issue :)

I’d go even further, in fact….make all ‘taxes’ voluntary. If you choose to participate in a standardized gubmint revenue-generation scheme (flat 10% or whatever), then yuo get to vote – if you buy in, you get a say in how your money is spent.

The Obama campaign has tried to deny that their tax plan is really a disguise for massive wealth redistribution, with the IRS taking phenomenal amounts from those who do pay taxes and giving it as welfare tax credits to those……

My main issue with Barack Obama doesn’t get any clearer than this. He wants to confiscate more from those that are productive and give more to those who are not. It’s a page right out of the Karl Marx playbook: From each according to his ability, to …

Video: Obama’s redistributionism
Fox and Friends featured this exchange between Barack Obama and a
plumber on the campaign trail this weekend. Want to hear a
redistributionist explain his policy?

Plumber to Obama: “Your new tax……

“Economic justice,” I think they call it in the radical consciousness-raising schools he funded. How does he intend to spread the wealth? By increasing the size of federal programs? Well, that’s a start. But I’m afraid he’s going to spread……

By Obama’s reckoning, they had almost no taxes whatsoever.

He can go on to define freedom of speech as allowing us to write in to the government newspapers.

Rather than go to all of the aggravation involved with Obama’s proposal, why not just get to the bottom line quickly by sending China a check?

hillbillyjim on October 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Of course, I forgot about the Constitutional right to a big-screen TV for all “under-served” individuals.

Obama plan: tax cuts or Demogrants?

Given Barack Obama’s relentless populism this cycle, the Wall Street Journal analysis
of his tax cuts should surprise no one. They find that Obama relies
less on actual cuts in tax rates and more in……

It’s a nice argument Ed, and the correct one, of course. But the problem with it is that such a scheme can work in the short and intermediate term. The political and economic policies that have destroyed so many American cities, (and as you suggest now threaten whole states and even the US) took decades to achieve their aims. Only now do those places no longer have any revenue to re-distribute. I’m afraid that in a perverse way, the horrors you describe are seen by many others as sublime. They don’t care that in the long run, it brings ruin. Looting and ruin is the aim. Barack’s words are winners.

JiangxiDad on October 13, 2008 at 9:08 AM

We are well past the “short” and close to the end of the “intermediate” terms.

Mix in other programs where eligibility is based on income, and you will find points on the income spectrum where earning an additional dollar results in the person having less money to spend after factoring in the taxes and programs. I once had a single mother who worked for me that told me she didn’t want more than a certain number of hours a week, because it would cause her to be pushed into a higher bracket for her Section 8 housing, Medicaid, etc., and would actually cost her money.

It is as if the marginal tax rate in those income ranges is over 100%. And that seems awfully regressive to me.

Obama’s unsound theories of wealth redistribution will now get a tailwind from Europe with Krugman’s Nobel prize.

whitetop on October 13, 2008 at 10:11 AM

With the Nobel “peace” prize having been awarded to people like Arafat and Al Gore, does anyone take the Nobel prizes seriously anymore? They have become nothing more than a public confirmation that the recipient adheres to the loony Leftist line of thinking.

Since when have Democrats become all about tax cuts? For that matter, since when have they been all about prayer and God and religion?

ballz2wallz on October 13, 2008 at 9:11 AM

Very good questions. Another: Since when did Republicans become all about government bailouts and increased regulations?

That’s where McCain is right now…

This plan removes Federal income tax for the benefit of all Americans and makes sure the bills get paid….

obladioblada on October 13, 2008 at 10:40 AM

That is an urban legend that has been thoroughly debunked. Secession is not in the Texas Constitution! However, Texas can divide into 5 states, but good luck on that also.

Anyway, come on down, but leave your liberal minded teenagers in their home state!

There are no moose to hunt, but deer are a major pest in the Hill Country because the only top of the food chain predator is the hunter with a deer license, and we are not giving up our guns, bibles, or tax dollars to the USSA.