Being an Ingrate
You probably heard the little bit from the President yesterday when he said he expected a “Thank You” for all of the wasteful and unnecessary spending he’s inflicted upon us in the last year or so. Our buddies at No Sheeples Here put together this video to illustrate the problem;
I’m a single issue voter – besides veterans and defense – and that’s on taxes. I’ll admit that I did good on taxes this year, but only because I paid cash for a new first house and a new car after saving my pennies thanks largely to the Bush tax cuts. Those tax cuts end this year and it’ll hit mostly low income earners who will pay taxes for the first time in ten years. Other low income earners will have their income taxes increase by 50% – from their 10% marginal rates to 15%.
That is tax increase anyway you look at it. Of course, that paltry $16/month tax break we got last year won’t cushion the income reduction we’ll all feel next year. And the President is somehow “amused” about that.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Economy
Best sign I saw at our local Tea Party-40 something black woman with a sign that read “I Have A Dream! and Obama isn’t in it”.
If the pres really thinks we should be thanking him for the financial situation we are in, he is farther off into la-la land than previously suspected.
We amuse him? Really? WTF!!
Dave, that is so cute, I posted that to my Facebook status. 🙂
“I like to pay taxes. It is purchasing civilization.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.” –Judge Learned Hand, Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934)
Maybe that’s why FDR didn’t nominate him for the Supreme Court. Now go crawl back in your hole, douchenozzle.
Joe I don’t want to start a discussion with you, but do you think that either of those quotes really mean anything to people here?
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. -Calvin Coolidge
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
-Karl Marx
Have you figured out what logic is yet?