Look, up in the sky! There goes one now!
Posted on 02/09/2008 11:56:14 AM PST by SandRat
Joy Behar’s fact-free analysis continued on the February 8 edition of "The View" as she claimed the Bush administration raised taxes on the American people. Perhaps she was too overwhelmed with rage when Elisabeth Hasselbeck dared to take a shot at Hillary Clinton’s fiscal policy.
Hasselbeck joked about taxes on earned income, "just wait until Hillary is in office, you’re going to give it all back." Behar fought back: "That is so not true. Your president has raised taxes! Please! Ridiculous!"
The spat began when the View co-hosts were discussing a recent survey where the majority of women said they would prefer $1 million over a slimmer waistline. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg reminded the audience that in reality that a million dollars would be a lot less because much of that money is taxed.
GOLDBERG: Okay, let me ask you something because you think it’s a million dollars. 50 percent of that goes to the government-
SHEPHERD: 500.
GOLDBERG: -so you’re only getting $500,000. But wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. You still have the state and local government to pay for. Do not forget all of these taxes, so-
HASSELBECK: Yeah, just wait until Hillary is in office, you’re going to give it all back.
BEHAR: That is so not true. Your president has raised taxes! Please! Ridiculous! That is ridiculous for you to say!
After Whoopi promoted her weight loss plan, the discussion continued with Joy Behar misleading on the current tax policy.
BEHAR: No wait a minute, just one thing you said. This administration that we’ve been living in for eight years, has raised the deficit. The dollar is worth nothing anymore, and also has given tax cuts to the wealthiest American people, during a war which is unheard of!
HASSELBECK: You think tax breaks should only be given to certain Americans and not all Americans?
BEHAR: I think it should be given only to people who are working.
GOLDBERG: I’m working.
BEHAR: Middle class people, their tax cuts have been irrelevant at this point. Now the multi-millionaire tax cuts are kicking in. And we’re in big trouble because of that.
Apparently Behar has a very broad term for "irrelevant." In the Bush income tax reductions of 2001, the bottom two tax brackets composed of middle income Americans, 28 percent and 15 percent, were reduced to 15 percent and 10 percent respectively. Middle income Americans received between a 33 and 46 percent tax cut. Additionally, after the Bush tax cuts were implemented, the Heritage Foundation found that the rich paid even a larger share of taxes.
"...the share paid by the top quintile edged up from 66.6 percent in 2000 to 67.1 percent in 2004, while the bottom 40 percent's share dipped from 5.9 percent to 5.4 percent."
After Whoopi Goldberg claimed "no one in this country has fared very well under this administration," she replied to Joy Behar that a fair tax cut would give on to everyone who pays taxes, even the rich.
GOLDBERG: Listen, they can keep their money and just pay their taxes. But, you know, my point is that I don’t think you should be chastised because you did make a lot of money in your life.
BEHAR: No, we’re not saying that.
GOLDBERG: Well, you are when you say only- yes, let me tell you why I say that. I say that because if you say Americans across the board should get a tax cut, I think all Americans should get it. When you start to say that only these people should get it because of this, I don’t think it’s right. Give it to everybody, so that- because everybody needs a little break. Everybody needs to feel like their part of the system.
Joy Behar also mocked conservatives who think highly of Ronald Reagan resemble those with Tourette’s Syndrome.
"Oh, they’re dancing around it. They keep saying 'Reagan, Reagan, Reagan,' like some weird Tourette’s Syndrome. [laughter] You know it’s true! The Republicans, the Republicans know it’s true!"
Joy Behar also gave some fact free insight on the Republican nomination process. Behar seems to be ignorant that unlike the Democrats, Republicans do not have superdelegates.
GOLDBERG: Mitt Romney has suspended his running. What exactly does that mean?
BEHAR: He’s out of the race.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Suspended his campaign.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Suspended is different from dropping out though because he could come back.
HASSELBECK: Yeah, what were you saying about the super delegates?
BEHAR: The superdelegates if they vote for him, then he’s still in the race, but he’s out. Come on. Let’s face it.
Behar is an ignoramus
Do ppl really watch that show?
Why is this show still on the air? What a waste of air space.
I know people like Joy Behar. They are so bitter and uninformed that they’re simply not worth the time discussing politics. Her ignorance is displayed in almost every comment she makes.
Sounds like Whoopee needs to get together with Wesley Snipes and start a Hollywood anti-tax group.
I’m paying a lot more in income taxes than I was eight years ago, BUT my income has also doubled and this is almost entirely because Bush’s tax cuts resulted in so much economic growth.
totally wasted bandwidth.the view is beneath contempt for discussion
Their thinking calls for a 12-Step program.
She sounds like a typical rat to me. The country is infested with them.
Look, up in the sky! There goes one now!
Behar is a has been stand up comedian and now an ignoramous on a silly show about nothing.
“Behar seems to be ignorant that unlike the Democrats, Republicans do not have superdelegates”
Democrat superdelegates - proof that some animals are more equal than others...
“Joy Behar also gave some fact free insight”, but of what value are facts to that show’s viewers, or to liberals, or to Democrats, or to most American voters?
First, the tax cuts actually benefited everyone, well, everyone who pays taxes. The liberals are irritated because the Bush tax cuts were actual tax cuts, rather than wealth transfers disguised as tax cuts (see the current economic stimulus rebates for a good example).
Second, the dollar has been sliding for years, thanks to both Republicans and Democrats. Pointing the finger at Republicans without correspondingly blaming Democrats is hypocritical. So...pot, meet kettle.
Third, if anyone here thinks the deficit is bad, let me put it this way: "you ain't see nothin' yet!" All levels of government (irrespective of which party is in control) continue spending like drunken sailors in a race to see who can buy the most votes with promises of entitlements and wealth transfers. The drunken binge is fueled through borrowing, taxing, and printing money.
Just wait until the Social Security and Medicare chickens finally come home to roost. The Iraq war spending is a drop in the bucket, by comparison. And, what happens when credit dries up? There are limits to tax rates and how much money can be printed without thoroughly destroying the economy.
Whoopie may be a lib, but she’s far closer to the truth than Behar ever dreamed of being
If Whoopi would stop drinking the Democrat Koolaid, she would turn Republican.
Quick! Somebody save this thread by posting a picture of Elizabeth Hasselbeck, ooh la la!, the only redeeming feature of this moron-fest! thank you
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