Assumption ? ? ? We need to have that document from back then, I think it was called "The Constitution" or something, actually taken seriously. Instead of serious attempts being made to go around it.
Not remotely my intention although maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear. I was thinking --metaphorically-- of everything SINCE the Constitution. Actually, to be technical, more like everything from JQ Adams and Andrew Jackson onward. I am a Strict Constructionist / Originalist even if I think we need about 50 new Amendments, BR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ In a message dated 10/10/2010 7:08:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I'd have been more impressed with Thomas Jefferson rather than Teddy, but that's my choice. :-) We need to have that document from back then, I think it was called "The Constitution" or something, actually taken seriously. Instead of serious attempts being made to go around it. Take the "Bush tax cuts." On 01/01/2011, all tax rates in all brackets go up. It doesn't stop at the dear Presidents line in the sand of $250,000. If you paid ANY taxes, they will go up. I haven't reached that level, and yet the percentage in my bracket is going UP. Do tell me how an increase is a decrease. So all of the hot air about this not impacting the middle class is just that: hot air. To top that off, the Marriage Penalty is back, and allowances for offspring are up for reduction as well. My former college roommate has a small business. Small businesses basically file a return not that much different from that of an individual. Different deductions and no individual exemptions are about the only difference. With those differences, it does not take long-if you made any money at all-to get up there in the income column. Just as for individual the rates on the brackets go up, the same applies here. So he's probably not going to hire another clerk (even if he needs one due to the increased paperwork in the health insurance sales business), because the new taxes will come close to the salary a clerk would get paid, and the IRS demands its pound of flesh first. So the clerk will not be hired, the IRS has their salary in their vaults. And pardon me if all I hear lately from the administration is condemnation of the court ruling allowing corporate contributions and condemnation of corporations while they are silent on the unions, due to the massive advantages Democrats have with union thugs. According the the Democratic administration, union thugs are all sweetness and light (even the ones that beat folks up for not voting "correctly") but the only font of wickedness is the Republican party and Corporations. Or have you ignored Obama lately? God knows I've tried... Does the above paragraph strike you as ludicrous as well? One of your other charts confirmed my suspicions, Lehman Brothers gave more the the Republicans than the Democrats, so it was not rescued. Goldman Sachs gave more money to the Democrats, and it was rescued. Nice way to "legally" reduce contributions to Republicans. So what if it cost the economy several thousand jobs. Sincerely yours, P. J. O'Rourke To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.--Thomas Jefferson On 10/10/2010 7:49 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: David : Far be it from me to put all the "evil ones" in the Republican Party. Just saying that wealth and the GOP go together like hand-in-glove. Doesn't mean that , say, there isn't Big Money that flows to the Left from Hollywood or elsewhere. Clearly there is. But there is a reason why, most of the time, the Republicans are the ones in Congress who stick up for the wealthy. Just as there is a reason why some Democrats have jumped ship and want the Bush tax cuts extended to everyone, including the $ 250,000 crowd. The mutineers are in hock to Big Wealth. My argument is that wealth simply is no guarantee of virtue , investing in America, not transferring most of one's money to the Caymans or Switzerland, not shipping a large # of jobs overseas, etc,. Yet to hear it from the GOP leadership, the saints among us are all millionaires and the only font of wickedness in the USA consists of the unions. Such a view strike me as ludicrous ( insane, absurd on the face of it, demented, etc ). I have plenty of things to say about the social policies of the Democrats, about their fiscal policies, etc, which have been made abundantly clear in the past months and years. IMHO. we are dealing with two Evil and Stupid Parties even if one is more Evil and the other is more Stupid. Sincerely Theodore Roosevelt PS We need to go back to 1787 and start over. ============================================================= In a message dated 10/10/2010 4:46:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes: Although, oddly enough, I saw a couple of polls this week where Bush out-polled Obama. A couple were within the margin of error, too. Simply amazing. I wouldn't have given 45 % either on virtue, but I also wouldn't have put ALL of the evil ones all in the Republican Party. I might put them all in the Demonrat Party. :-) Doing a hell of a job there, Barry. Warren Buffet is one of Obama's advisers. I would speculate that Gates and Jobs are also in the Democratic camp, whatever somewhat strange bedfellows that might be. To put it kindly, the only Republican megabuck people I could have named (before Obama started going after the Koch family this week), would have been the Wal-Mart Waltons. Perhaps Rupert Murdock, but then he sort of spreads his contributions to both parties. Yet, on the other hand, I can name Buffet, Soros, Immelt, Zucker, Gates, and Jobs without breaking a sweat. Not to mention Kennedy and Kerry (Heinz), and Kohl. Most of the rich oil barons are long gone, and their money divided amongst the heirs, at least in the US. Here's a story about some Rich Democrats trying to turn Texas Blue _http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-shadow-party-how-a-washington-based-libera l-activist-is-trying-to-turn-texas-blue-whether-texans-want-it-or-not/_ (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-shadow-party-how-a-washington-based-liberal-ac tivist-is-trying-to-turn-texas-blue-whether-texans-want-it-or-not/) Do note "whether Texans want it or not." Of course, some of them won their money in lawsuits or got it from lucrative government contracts (like Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White). But it's always the Republicans that are corrupt. (Nevermind Waxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, the late John Murtha, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Blago.) Nancy Pelosi said that she would "drain the swamp." All she did was restock it with Democratic crooks. David -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
