FAIR SHARE. As in the “rich paying their fair share of taxes.” There is nothing fair about this philosophy. The facts are: the top one percent of our citizens pay forty percent of our income tax revenue; the top five percent pay sixty percent of our income tax revenue; the top ten percent pay seventy percent; the top fifty percent pay ninety-six percent of our income tax revenue. The bottom half of Americans only pay about four percent of our income tax revenue. For fifty percent of our citizens, then, paying income tax is what one columnist called a “spectator sport.” The percentage of citizens who pay no income tax has doubled since 1950 to about forty seven percent. The Leftist New York Times calls these figures “a cleverly selective reading of the facts.” Is this another “fact,” New York Times?
Worse, the bottom forty percent of American earners, those who pay no taxes, receive a payment from the government. Characterized as a “refund” it is not a refund at all but a transfer of money from the “rich” to the “less fortunate.” The “refund” will be more than they pay in federal, state and local taxes, sales tax and Social Security tax combined. ." Representative Paul Ryan Paul Ryan hit the nail on the head when he called this “more takers than makers.”
A New York Times columnist recently commented that elements of the financial reform bill might eventually place another burden on taxpayers. Would it not hurt our other citizens, too? Probably not since they have no “skin in the game” and they will not bear the cost of failed government policies.
Leftist politicians and media pundits, whose compensation often runs into the millions of dollars, often characterize those who make $250,000 as “rich.” In order to appease the unions in regards to the healthcare bill, the administration will not tax their health plan like they will tax similar plans held by other Americans. To make up for not being able to expropriate healthcare cash until 2018 from the remnants of the old industrial unions, the Democrats conjured a 3.8% “Medicare tax” on higher-bracket investment income. Democrats and Mr. Obama defended the investment taxes as “fair-share” social justice. The president has talked of “redistributive change” and “spreading the wealth around.” He has also said, “I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.” Okay, maybe he was talking about just the “rich.” But since the definition of “rich” is being defined downward, at what point are all of us going to be accused of “making too much money.” Maybe we have already reached that point since the Obama administration is piling tax after tax upon those who work and already pay all the income taxes in America.
Sixty years of experience have shown that increasing the marginal tax rates on the “rich” produce no increase in government revenues. Question for Al Gore: Where are you on this “inconvenient truth?” But the Left needs a scapegoat to throw over the cliff to deflect the blame from themselves so the assault on the economy will probably continue.
The tax code, as presently written is 70,000 pages long; this is not a typo. It is so full of exemptions and concessions to special interests that no one can truly understand it. Because they do not understand it, politicians keep heaping additional tax burdens on the “rich.” And, on a regular basis “rich” is includes a greater portion of the middle class.
The Obama administration has no plan for reducing the deficit or rewriting the tax code. Under current levels of spending the national debt will rise from forty percent of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2008 to ninety percent of GDP by 2010. And this estimate fails to take into account the additional costs of the new healthcare program that the Democrats have squirreled away in one dim corner of the budget or another. Greece, the financially failed state of Europe has an annual deficit of thirteen percent of GDP. In the United States the annual deficit is ten percent and rising. Our politicians fiddle while our fiscal system burns. Greece is a member of the European Union and cannot simply print more money. The United States can print all it wants, even though each dollar minted will be worth less in real money than the one printed before it.
The time is not far off when our government will hit a financial wall where no more tax money is available unless everyone is taxed at punitive levels. Can we expect Europe to bail us out as it is doing for Greece? Think about it.
FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING. This was initiated in 1949 when television was in its infancy. It was meant to provide for equal access to broadcast networks for a wide variety of opinions. As a result of several court decisions, the Federal Communication Commission revoked this practice in 1987. For several years now, the Left have been struggling to have it reinstated. They are alarmed by popular radio broadcasters, for example Rush Limbaugh, and the growth of their following. They seek to reduce this influence by reducing the number of stations available to broadcast anything that does not fit into their philosophy. Their own attempts to take to the airways, e.g. Air America, have been dismal failures so they are trying to use a perversion of freedom of speech to give them leverage with an audience that has largely rejected them.
FAMILY. The basic unit of the human race that reaches back to the dawn of mankind. The Left is increasingly encroaching on decisions that were traditionally the business of the family. A book by Hillary Clinton book is a major assault our family structure. See It Takes a Village, below. The voice of the parents is increasingly less important as the Left removes more and more decisions, choices, from the family. “Choice” is almost always attached to something that has the Left’s approval. They do not, for example, believe parents should have a choice about where to send their children to school. Yet, they believe that underage girls should not need their parents’ consent to obtain an abortion. In Maryland there is a law that prevents schools from sending test scores to military recruiters. The reasoning is that it gives the recruiters access to children without their parents’ consent. See Choice, above.
FAMILY VALUES. The belief that our laws should be written with the American family in mind. In Newspeak this, like law and order, see below, is an inflammatory term that is an attack on non-traditional families. The Left does not believe that the traditional family is capable raising its children and conducting its affairs, competently. Secondly, “family values” is regarded by the Left as a conservative code word for opposing the harmful changes in our society wrought by the values of the Sixties generation. These include unrestricted abortion, the prevalence of pornography in the name of the First Amendment, the spread of Internationalism and other things that are destroying our society. They also feel that “family values” is an attack on such treasured things as multiple genders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the coddling of criminals, and absolving half of all Americans from paying income tax. The list goes on and on.
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