Topic: Taking Down Socialist 'Tax Fairness' Rhetoric

[jpatrickham]

Alexander's Essay – September 22, 2011
 
Who decides what is fair?

""The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all."

--George Washington

"One thing's for sure, Barack Hussein Obama is unrelenting in his effort to break the back of free enterprise. His Labor Day stimulus welfare, part deux didn't get a rise, so now he's rolling out the big guns.

On Monday, Obama brandished that favorite weapon of "useful idiots," class warfare. Classism (discriminating against a minority class of citizens on the basis of income) is like racism (discriminating against a minority class of citizens on the basis of skin tone), except for the fact that the former is acceptable to Leftist hypocrites (but I repeat myself), while the latter is not.
In a speech proposing $1.5 trillion in new taxes, ostensibly to reduce his rapidly accumulating deficit and debt, Obama claimed, "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million. ... We can't afford these special lower rates for the wealthy. ... Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires."

Obama flatly stated that mega-millionaires pay less tax and a lower tax rate than average American earners.

That might be "wrong" if it were true, but Obama is wrong and it's not true -- nowhere even close to factual. The red meat, however, certainly resonated with his wide-eyed sycophants. Here in Realville, the top 1 percent of income earners pay a whopping 38 percent of all tax revenues collected, while the bottom 50 percent of income earners pay less than three percent of all tax revenues collected. The remaining 60 percent of tax collections are confiscated from "the rich" between those brackets. And, of course, there are no "special lower rates for the wealthy."

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[Libertas]

Obama thinks the current tax code is not progressive enough...there is not a rate high enough to slake his lust for OPM!

[Glock32]

We live in a time and place where the truth is meaningless, it's no defense. Perception, the narrative, that is what matters. It is the sustenance of the Left.

Mark Steyn had a good quip on Rush's show on Friday, he said something to the effect of "Political reality is about to run headlong into real reality." Whenever that happens, and whatever form it takes, I just hope we are able to use it to break the back of Leftism.

[Libertas]

Indeed G, the narrative is all that maters to them...but as you correctly state in your Steyn quote, that will only get them so far.

The reckoning is coming one way or another...and their ideology will be toast...the collateral damage will ensure it!