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Does it get any better?
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If Obama is helping the evil rich, maybe you need to reconsider your support for him and his party?Rush clarified this issue rather well. When you are rich and have the ability to keep money from the government on principle because you KNOW how badly you're being fucked over to support lazy ingrates, you do it when you can. You hire that accounting firm to keep your cash safe from assholes who have no idea what it is to do a real job, meet a payroll, mind investments, or even how to stay in a budget.
A 50k investment to save millions is always money well spent. And you know what? They deserve to protect what the thieves in government are trying to steal for 'the sake of the children'. Yeah well, maybe if they'd stop condescending to minorities and thinking they can't make it 'without them' and get real jobs themselves, their lot in life would improve. You know who's really evil here? Bureaucrats and do-gooders who think they have the right and responsibility to steal from others to accomplish goals they feel need to be accomplished. Put your own damn money in if you feel drawn to help the poor. Quit shoving the government's gun in the face of others do do what they don't want.
That is evil, and so are those who think that way.
No, it is not evil. Nobody has a patriotic duty to pay a dollar more in tax than he owes. However, it could be considered evil to pay lobbysists and fund campaigns so that a new tax loophole is created to shelter ever-more of your income. It could be considered evil to hire public relations experts to help convince those you steal from that giving you even more money is the right thing to do.
Obama: GOP favors tax loopholes that send jobs overseas - TheHill.com
Comments on: Obama: End Tax Breaks That Send Jobs Overseas - CBS News
Meh, I am not interested in the souls of the mega-rich; I am interested in trying to reach my fellow Americans with a message that we have been and are being sold a bill of goods. Common sense should tell you, your self-interest does not lie with the Rupert Murdochs and Karl Roves -- it lies with your fellow working man.
Joe Biden said paying taxes is an patriotic act.
The DNC is trying to prevent companies from leaving the US to let them wither and rot in the US under union oppression rather than let them make money so they can provide jobs.
The tax code, which is about to be amended to make our tax on foreign profits even MORE odious by removing the protection that prevents the tax as long as hey do not bring the profits back to the US.
Evil to hire lobbyists. Do you know how they came about? They were advocates for farmers and businesses so far removed that to petition government was so difficult they had to hire someone specifically to go be their advocate. That is how the practice came about.
To say that today it's evil is to say petitioning the government for your rights and needs and protection is evil. That's pretty skewed IMHO.There is nothing evil with lobbying, only in some of their tactics, and how incestuous the game has become. That is what needs to be fixed. Serious penalties for those who corrupt the system. Corruption is the issue. Entitlement to what is not yours is the issue. Not money.
Public relation firms to steal... You mean like ACORN who uses political pressure to try and steal billions from TARP to fund their voter fraud drives? You mean like teachers unions who collect more money 'for the children' only to have it line administrators pockets while letting the schools turn into nothing more than mini penitentiaries with little learning done and preventing homeschooling or real education form to protect their government sanctioned monopoly? How about the whiny rich who hide behind an anti-trust exemption for organized sports then blackmail the taxpayers when they want a new facility costing a billion dollar or they will move?
The government is the one constant in these scenarios. We have voted people into power who WILL steal for these people. Not defend us from Armani wearing pick pockets. The hide behind children and poor people while continuing to do evil in our sight, yet we vote them back time and time again. Once the populace figured out they could vote themselves goodies out of the public coffers, our republic began dying in earnest.
What is the purpose of government? To rob the innocent and steal our rights they are sworn to protect in the name of 'goodness' and 'charity'? Or are they to stand up to well dressed crooks and say 'no' and not try to justify theft or make it morally palatable to those who have been robbed, trying to elicit a thank you as they are made poorer.
You can't have it both ways for the sake of politics. Both sides need their throat slit because they're both in on the game, just for different clubs.
Come on Madeline, I know you're better than this.I can't believe you really think that Karl Rove and Rupert Murdock define evil rich while there are so many other examples which are far more clear. You need to see beyond the short term of what's going on. The long game of collectivism ends in a coffin for everyone who doesn't agree and slavery for the rest. The long game of captalism is a land full of achievers who come together at times, but live their lives as they see best while respecting the rights of their neighbors to do the same.
Your comments and observations have been awesome to read Fitz, great job. Wish I could rep you again. Thanks.
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