Posted on 09/13/2010 7:59:14 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
> “Cmon editor, you know dang well that this is true, people love the envy of others more than actual wealth”
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That is true for some, but most of them do not last long. Their nature gets the best of them quickly.
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If you are not happy with Boehner challenge him in a primary.
Maybe Boehner is smarter than I had given him credit for, or maybe he's just catching on.
I've been trying to tell people for many years that there are very few conservatives as executives or management in corporations, and even less in NGOs, academia, hollywood, government agencies at all levels. The commies having been "seizing the wealth" long before Obama showed up.
“there are very few conservatives as executives or management in corporations, and even less in NGOs, academia, hollywood, government agencies at all levels. The commies having been “seizing the wealth” long before Obama showed up.”
You are so right. The Bush tax-cuts for the ‘wealthy’ will hit lots of democratic elitists that make between 250K and 400K - about all of the PhDs behind fancy college desks fall in this category. Democrats are the ones that fill many sweet and well paid bureaucratic jobs.
Probably not in your case, but O has given it some thought:
…the Earned Income Tax Credit provides… income through the tax code …(it) should be expanded…so more families can take advantage of it.
2006
The Audacity of Hope, p.283
Also don’t forget the local bureaucracies - remember that California mayor with the 6 digits salary?
Obama calls the expanding of the Earned Income Tax Credit a ‘tax-cut’. This is a travesty. Through EIC folks that don’t own taxes receive check of thousands of dollars.
Also they transformed the ‘workfare” into community jobs. Workfare did not count as income for EIC - so they transformed it into salaries so the workfare (street sweeping etc) can collect EIC bonus trough the tax-code on their workfare.
THAT is an interesting statement. Do you have a confirmed source? The reason that's so terribly interesting is that this would replicate the Islamic Sharia tax scheme of zakat, which is a 2.5% tax on net worth.
What he actually said was:
"If the only option I have is to vote for those at [$250,000] and below, of course I'm going to do that," Boehner said. "But I'm going to do everything I can to fight to make sure that we extend the current tax rates for all Americans."The Democrats want the Republicans to fight for "tax cuts for the rich", so they have something to beat the Pubbies with in attack ads just before the election. What Boehner is doing is to tell the Dems: "You want it? You got it. We will just vote "present" and let you pass it, and get all the credit for it. See how well your rich constituents like you now."
According to the Constitution, the people have a right “to petition their government” and lobbyists are just agents for the people.
Like all things it is possible to corrupt the intended process. Bribes given and accepted does not make for a government of the people. MO
Tom Daschle and his wife, that was a lobbyist for the airlines and the legislation that was proposed and passed during their time EI.
Theoretically, it is legal; and it is definitely a conflict of intersts.
Just one instance among thousands.
Everyone knows about Daschle and his wife, but if actual bribes can’t be proved, lobbyists are a legal and Constitutionally protected part of the process. Just like the boogeyman issue of PACs and the dreaded “earmarks”, they’re all phony issues that have been created as a political smokescreen to deflect from the real horror of Democrat ruled America.
My point is lobbyist have too must leeway and take up too much of the legislators time. There needs to be some policies, rules, and definition of what is legal behavior and a bit more control of their apparently immense power to sway the legislators. MO
It has become more powerful than the wishes of the people. and very enriching to the legislators too, I might add.
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