AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Debra Law wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:

Perhaps they are incapable of understanding it?

How many times has Foxy used this line to suggest those who disagree with her are too stupid to understand the intellectual complexity of her point? I think the number is in the thousands.

Is "every" a number yet?

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How can you say that with certainty? Would you like to show your future employer that C or D or F you got as proof that you obtained knowledge?

When you remove the grade as an indicator of knowledge achieved/effort expended, why would the superior student study like crazy if he was going to fail anyway? He would still receive an "F" no matter how much he studied. If it was knowledge he wanted, most would figure they could get that with a lot less hassle and in a way that would have a whole lot more credibility.

Now you take a small business owner who is offered a nice contract, but if he accepts it he will push himself into a substantially higher tax bracket and subject himself to all manner of government regulations, mandates, and red tape that he doesn't have as a Mom & Pop operation. He decides he doesn't need the aggravation or the reduced income so he doesn't hire the half dozen people he would have otherwise hired. And the next guy lays off a few employees to keep himself under the threshhold where the government would have socked it to him.

Petition for the Impeachment
of Barack Obama

To: The 111th Congress of the United States of America

Given that President Barack Obama may not be a natural born
citizen of the United States, he therefore does not meet the minimum
requirements to serve as President. There is considerable evidence that,
while campaigning, he broke Federal Election Commission regulations
and accepted massive amounts of mony from foreign interests. It seems
that he is now representing those interests and not the interests of the
American People.

In running for president, Barack Obama has knowingly defrauded the
American people, costing our nation billions of dollars, while desecrating
the U.S. Constitution.

What's more, Barack Obama has made unconstitutional power grabs
unlike any witnessed in the history of our nation. He is dismantling our
democracy and moving our nation to socialism and Fascism. There is
ample legislation passed, regulations implemented and government
controls put in place that violate our Constitution, U.S. sovereignty and
endanger American citizens. It is clear Barack Obama is representing the
interests of our enemies and violating his oath to protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States of America.

Therefore, as per the U.S. Constitution, as representatives of the American
people, the U.S. Congress must act to impeach Barack Obama before our
nation is put in greater peril.

Sincerely,
_________________________________________________
White House Watch Member

To: The 111th Congress of the United States of America

I am really stupid.

Sincerely,
_________________________________________________
White House Watch Member

I an assure you that if you are applying for graduate school or certain professional positions, or want honors on your resume, your grade point becomes damned important. And your post strongly suggests that I probably know a lot more sh*t about taxes than you do, especially as they affect business. I have run a business and paid local, state, and federal taxes, payroll taxes, and various other taxes associated with that. Have you?

Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. That government is best that governs least is an Americanism. When "Silent Cal" Coolidge went home in 1929, the U.S. government was spending 3 percent of gross domestic product.

And today? Obama's first budget will consume 28 percent of the entire GDP; state and local governments another 15 percent. While there is some overlap, in 2009, government will consume 40 percent of GDP, approaching the peak of World War II.

The deficit for 2009 is $1.8 trillion, 13 percent of the whole economy. Obama is pushing a cap-and-trade bill to cut carbon emissions that will impose huge costs on energy production, spike consumer prices and drive production offshore to China, which is opting out of Kyoto II. The Chinese are not fools.

Obama plans to repeal the Bush tax cuts and take the income tax rate to near 40 percent. Combined state and local income tax rates can run to 10 percent. For the self-employed, payroll taxes add up to 15.2 percent on the first $106,800 for all wages of all workers. Medicare takes 2.9 percent of all wages above that. Then there are the state sales taxes that can run to 8 percent, property taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes, and "sin taxes" on booze, cigarettes and, soon, hot dogs and soft drinks.

Comes now national health insurance from Nancy Pelosi's House. A surtax that runs to 5.4 percent of all earnings of the top 1 percent of Americans, who already pay 40 percent of all federal income taxes, has been sent to the Senate. Included also is an 8 percent tax on the entire payroll of small businesses that fail to provide health insurance for employees.

Other ideas on the table include taxing the health benefits that businesses provide their employees.

The D.C.-based Tax Foundation says New Yorkers could face a combined income tax rate of near 60 percent.

Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people.

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Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people.

This line from your e-mail is misleading. The revolutionists were reacting not to taxes but to "taxation without representation". What they objected to was the fact that they had no representation in the Parliament that imposed the taxes.