AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Hatred is the stock and trade from the right across time and nation states: the KKK, the Nazis, the Fascists in Spain, the Tea Party.

plainoldme wrote:

Hatred is the stock and trade from the right across time and nation states: the KKK, the Nazis, the Fascists in Spain, the Tea Party.

Total and absolute garbage, and an insult to every decent American that has spoken up against the socialist and confiscatory policies of Obama and his irresponsible Democrat associates in Congress.
Think for a moment, if you are capable, compare the decent Tea Partiers to the Bill Ayers of the World, a domestic terrorist that has wreaked violence and advocated the overthrow of the United States of America, and a friend of Obama, and the Reverend Wright that has essentially said America deserved 911, a friend and political / spiritual mentor of Obama. It is Obama and his friends that are dangerous and that can be compared to Nazis, fascists, or if you want to go there, it is one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, KKK Byrd, who has been one of the kingpins of the KKK in his past.

If anyone is spewing hatred here in fact, it is you, pom. And yes, I have the courage and backbone to say so, I will not stay silent in face of the Democrat and Liberal leftist demagoguery.

Had a long talk with a friend who is a history prof today. We both agree that the Tea Totalitarians are neither a movement nor is its origins grass roots.

What you fail to understand that the only fascism is that the industrialists who have scored an enormous victory with the Supreme Court are the fascists, that industrialists control the government largely through lobbyists, but, now through the Supreme Court and that you are being led to speak on their behalf.

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HOW "SOAKING THE RICH" CLOBBERS YOU

When it comes time for tax hikes to pay for all the spending we're doing with borrowed money, Washington just figures that the "rich" will pay, says Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute.

Case in point:

President Obama seems certain to let the Bush tax cuts for upper-income Americans expire -- so in January the top rate will jump back to 39.6 from 35 percent.

Two years later, a new 3.8 percent tax kicks in on investment income earned by families who make $250,000 and up (part of the health care bill). Thing is, the rich already do pay. And when it comes time to pay for all of the spending we're doing now, the rich may not be able or willing to pay even more, says Gelinas:

Taxpayers earning over $200,000 paid more than 54 percent of federal income taxes in 2007, way more than the 32 percent of the nation's income they earned.

In New York, the rich pay even more; families above the $200,000 mark pay nearly 67 percent of the Empire State's share of federal income taxes.

It's the same with New York's state and local taxes; Mayor Bloomberg regularly notes that 40,000 families making a half-million or more pay nearly half the city's income taxes, and these same people pay a similarly outsized share of state taxes.

But there's a limit to how much the government can get, says Gelinas. Last year, New York hiked income taxes on people who earn more than $200,000. But, as E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for New York State Policy noted last month, the expected take from that tax hike seems likely to come in half a billion below estimates.

There's good reason to think Obama's tax hikes on the rich will fall short, too, says Gelinas. Although federal taxpayers can't leave the country as easily as a handful of Bloomberg's Upper East Side neighbors can leave New York, they can park more money in tax-free investments or simply decline to earn it in the first place. Such tax-avoidance is perfectly legal -- but it means less economic growth, and thus less income earned by everyone else.

Source: Nicole Gelinas, "How Soaking the Rich Clobbers You," New York Post, April 14, 2010.

There's good reason to think Obama's tax hikes on the rich will fall short, too, says Gelinas. Although federal taxpayers can't leave the country as easily as a handful of Bloomberg's Upper East Side neighbors can leave New York, they can park more money in tax-free investments or simply decline to earn it in the first place. Such tax-avoidance is perfectly legal -- but it means less economic growth, and thus less income earned by everyone else.

Producers vs. Expropriators: America's Coming Civil War?
by Edward Hudgins


April 13, 2010 -- America is drifting toward civil war, albeit one that does not yet involve bloody battlefields.

This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama's election as president has widened into a deep fissure and might split the nation apart. The divide is not based on regional, racial, or religious differences, factors that often set neighbors at one another's throats. Rather, the conflict is between producers, those who work to earn their own way and prosper through their own efforts, and expropriators, those who survive by taking from others with governments as their agents.

For Tax Day 2010, as the government empties the wallets of productive citizens, read this insightful analysis by Edward Hudgins describing how we got into this situation and how those who still value their lives, liberty, and independence can fight back!


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