http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/14/whs_bernstein_millionaires_dont_need_the_extra_cash.html
"The most important thing we have to do right now is hold the line for the tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires who, frankly, do not need the extra cash.
Anyone who thinks that these tax cuts for our millionaires and billionaires costing $700 billion over 10 years -- we we're just talking about the importance of that long-term budget under control. This is a great way to lose control of that and if you think an extension of one or two years is going to hold, I think that is very misguided political thinking,"
What he's saying is that if the government doesn't think you "need" the money that you worked hard to earn, then they have the moral right to just take it away from you. And did you notice the hypocrisy?
It's simply this... they don't want to "go back" to old "economic policies,, but they certainly don't mind going backwards in our tax policy. The party that says they want to look forward actually wants to wind the clock backwards to higher and higher tax rates that will make this country less competitive in the global market.
Hypocritical.
When you hear these guys talk about how tax cuts ALREADY IN PLACE will cost the government money, you hear them betraying their worldview. In THEIR MINDS, your money isn't yours, it's theirs. You may have earned it, but by God they are the government and they have a right to any money they want!
I remember a newspaper article many years back, talking about a new WalMart in a small Alabama town. In the second paragraph they talked about how much tax revenue the store would generate. The article didn't mention new jobs or the goods you could buy at low prices until six or seven paragraphs later.
Guys! It's not all about government and what they can take from us. Sometimes, it's just us. We should NOT be thinking of government first and foremost.
It's time for government to do what everybody else in this country has already started doing... Stop spending money they don't have. They also need to stop raising taxes on those of us in the private sector. The higher our taxes go, the less economic activity we'll be able to engage in.
Do they really WANT to hurt our economy?
Matthew - It's a scary thought - I'll take what you've earned because you've earned to much. Who do these idiots think build the big companies, hire all the employee's, provide benefits and vacations for their workers? Take them out of the loop and your dependent on the Government.....Oh, that's the plan isn't it?
ReplyDeleteBut I agree... that's what they believe. And it's unfortunately not limited to Democrats... far too many Republicans view us the same way.
ReplyDeleteAmerican taxpayers... the never-empty cookie jar.
The question that you could pose on the streets of America (or backroads of Bama)...is where this fine line is located when you've earned enough and should not earn any more.
ReplyDeleteGo out and sit down at some diner in a small town and pose this question to ten folks. Most will sit there for 30 seconds and admit they just don't know where that fine line is, but they have not approached it ever and are content to keep working. When you do find a guy who pauses for 60 seconds and thinks hard...he'll likely say that this fine line is imaginary because as you earn more, you expect more in life.
I'm kinda wondering where the president gets this logic over "enough money is enough". He cannot state the Bible on this. You can't find a single verse to forbid a guy from making gains in life. There is a verse or two about "waste-not, want-not" but thats about far as you can go.
It's sad that someone would screw with people to this extent, and talk about your limits in life as though it was the natural thing to do. Heck, we might as well say we have enough paved roads in America, enough Dairy Queens, enough bridges, and enough septic tanks. The logic ought to carry through. And it doesn't.
I know one thing we've had "enough" of... politicians like Barack Obama who want to control this country and every aspect of our lives.
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