Posted on 08/21/2004 8:34:37 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Income redistribution is right up the wicked witch of the north's alley. Remember about two months in San Francisco when Hitlery was up at the podium giving speech and told the San Franciscans, who paid up to $10,000 a plate to be in attendance, that they made too much money. Further, when the demoncRATS take control of the White House, she's going to make sure that she and other demoncRATS like Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Richard Gephardt, etal, take their money away from them and redistribute it for the common good. And these same San Franciscans loved it for her.
Thanks. This is so true and those who need to see it do not.
As Alvin Lee once sang, "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more - tell me, where is sanity?"
Income distribution isn't only welfare, it's FREE TRADE as well. They're taking our incomes and moving them overseas.
Good post!
Socialism has never worked long term to any acceptable degree, but Dems say "this time it will be different".
I'm no fan of income redistribution, but I'm against means testing for Social Security benefite - if a person has money confiscated throughout their working life, they must get it back when they reach the eligible age.
Witness the palpable hostility when shoppers paying cash wait in the check-out line at the grocery store while someone uses food stamps to make purchases.
I've never witnessed what he describes; I have, however, witnessed a Hispanic customer just in front of me in line at the supermarket paying with food stamps shoot hateful stares MY way.
Only the ruling class-those who constitute the government-can confidently expect to gain, as each new program enlarges the number of official jobs and the bureaucracy's budget.
Wrong. "Private" companies that live off of government contracts gain more than anyone else.
P.S. Since the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act, it's been known as TANF -- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
Oops! I just noticed that the piece was published in 1994, before the PRA was enacted.
save...for later
If the money paid into S/S had been invested at even a low rate of interest, say 4% for all of the years that people paid it in, it would have been worth a million dollars per retiree. But the Washington Gangsters saw that big pile of money and could not keep their hands off of it.
The biggest offender was LBJ when he wanted to fight in Viet Nam, and underwrite the Great Society at one time. That started the raid of S/S funds.
Interesting, but I'm not going to give up my federal pension to make the writer of the article feel better.
Hey, the Republicans are in charge. Government spending increases and sharing the loot in exchange for votes is now acceptable.
Enron accountants couldn't have cooked up a bigger scam. And the government is immune from prosecution or any sort of accountability.
Ping..
So that's where all that money from my paycheck goes before I even see it...
Why don't we band together, and nominate one FReeper from every state to run for either the House or Senate, and do it every election year until we can infiltrate...
I'd run for the US House, but I'd have to move 10 miles south so I'd be in a district that has at least a reasonable chance to elect a conservative. Any district that elects Tim Ryan (D-Parts of Akron and Youngstown, OH) is a futile attempt...
"They're taking our incomes and moving them overseas."
-- Are you a Buchananite protectionist? Protectionism is a form of incoem redistribution and and the protection of "mature" insustries is truly despotic.
Take the steel industry for example:
Why should Every American consumer, along with every american business that uses steel, pay MORE so that one small political constituency gets more? That's income redistribution as well.
If you're talking about "off-shoring" money, I see tax AVOIDANCE as one's patriotic duty to starve the beast.
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