Posted by
Deane Pradzinski on Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:19:27 PM
Chad, I know it all sounds very nice. Here's the facts: the top 25% of income earners in this country pay 86.0% of ALL TAXES. The top 50% pay 97% of all taxes. The top 1% of income earners pay 39% of all taxes, up 2% from 2000 when President Bush took office.
The bottom 40% DO NOT PAY TAXES. When Obama says the bottom 95% cut tax cuts what he really means is that the bottom 40% will get checks in the mail of money THEY DID NOT EARN. That is welfare.
Now, when you say big business doesn't give back-what universe are you living in? They employ thousands of employees with great benefits and 401k's. They provide the services and products that run this country. Are you wearing clothes? Shoes? Driving a car? Pumping gas? Flying? Brought to you by big corporations. You see, i don't appreciate Democrats pitting one group of Americans against another. That's what they do in communist countries to manipulate the proletariat. I want to become a big corporation some day. I don't want to be penalized for being successful. Fred Smith became FedEx. America is business! Government should not be in the business of deciding who is too successful and then deciding to penalize you because you make too much money. That is call social engineering. Very bad.
We tax corporations at 35%. It's no wonder they are moving out of the country. They're moving to places like Ireland where the corporate tax rate is 11%. Why doesn't that connect with Democrats? After all it's mostly Democrats who are crying that jobs are leaving the country. Americans used to be proud of our big corporations. We had the best airlines, the best cars, the best medicine. Now Democrats have burdened big business with so many regulations and taxes that corporations are struggling to make it and are leaving the country in droves.
It isn't greed to want to keep the fruit of your hard work, to get ahead, to leave it to your kids, to invest it. Joe the plumber is not a rich guy. He just wants to get ahead without help or interference from government. I do too.
And yes, since we began the "Great Society" programs from the '60's poverty has not abated. It has gotten worse. If i provide a house and some money to my 30 year old son he will have no incentive to find a job. If I let him he will live with me forever. That principle works on a grand scale, too. We are all to human.
This country is built on HARD WORK. Obama is a socialist. Look at his record in Chicago and his "community organizing". Bill Ayers has called himself a small 'c' communist. His agenda is Obama's agenda. Which is why we need to know the extent of Obama's involvement with the anti-American education "reform" that he and Bill Ayers taught the children in Chicago.
Obama will rape our bank accounts. He wants to raise the taxes on capital gains and death taxes. Democrat George Miller, House Education and Labor committee chairman, wants to nationalize 401k plans. Google "George Miller" and "401k" and read about it. This is Obama's future administration.
If you think Democrats, after 70 years, are going to change their stripes and become free marketers you are sadly mistaken. Obama will strip you of every responsibility and every penny and convince you that it's for your own good.
I know Obama sounds wonderful. I know he is eloquent. But given the choice between bread and freedom, I choose freedom and I'll make my own bread, thank you very much.