Dear Chris Matthews; Build Your Own Business And See If It Feels Like Work.

Business & Media Institute ^ | 3/3/2009 11:59:50 AM | By Dan Kennedy

[MindBender26]

Yes!

[Red Badger]

As long as the left has existed, The French Revolution comes to mind, they have demonized the “rich”. When there are no more “rich” in a nation, you have Zimbabwe..................

[DonaldC]

Eventually, the tax code will have to be changed so that there is a way to distinguish between businesses and individuals. That would be the only way to tax the rich without killing businesses.

[Paine in the Neck]

bump

[kellynla]

I don't know why ANYONE dignifies ANYTHING that Matthews says with a response...we all know that he's just a “water-boy” for the DNC and his program only draws maybe 10 or 12 people a day and they're probably just “friends & relatives!” LOL

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

These days, I am often hearing the words from "I’d Love To Change The World" by Ten Years After in my head:

"...Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more."

To me, these lines illustrate the essential difference between Liberals and Conservatives.

If a Conservative wrote those lines they would read;

"...Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no poor no more."

[MrB]

Mathews deserves nothing but a good nut-kicking.

[Lurker]

This is the most vile lie ever told to those working people. Why? Because every dollar of income stolen from me with taxes I retrieve plus three from those working people, to cover the taxes and overhead. I do so by: downsizing companies and cutting jobs, outsourcing jobs, not investing in expansion and creating jobs, and by raising prices.

Don't worry. They'll take care of that.

Directive 10-289 will put a stop to that.

L

[Cyclone59]

IF Chrissy were to ever get a real job, that tingle he feels running up his leg would be replaced by sh!t filling up his briefs, every time obama spoke.

[snowrip]

If you’re self-empyed, it doesn’t matter; your business income is your personal income.

Taxing the rich kills business either way. If I make a million a year but have to pay an extra $100,000 in income taxes under Obama I don’t eat out as much. I don’t buy a new car, or a new boat, or build a vacation home. I consume less, because my income is lower; that overall consumption loss is spread out over the businesses that I support.

Liberals are idiots.. they never learn.

[gibsosa]

Excellent!

[snowrip]

"...Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no poor no more."

Or until this is no food no more.

[Red Badger]

I doubt he has any to kick.................

[kellynla]

“Eventually, the tax code will have to be changed so that there is a way to distinguish between businesses and individuals?”

Excuse me? Those of us who own our own businesses pay BOTH individual AND business taxes already, thank you. Which is why after 50 years of busting my ass, I retired...I got tired of working 6 months out of the year to pay my taxes just so others could sit on their fat asses and draw welfare! And with HALF the population dependent on the government for their livelihood, it's time for the non-working half to get off their ass and GO GET A JOB!

[Gondring]

Pretty good, but this is wrong: “[...] backdoor tax increases via the taking away of real estate interest [...]”

A tax deduction is merely the government not levying a fine on those who don’t act the way it wants.

[netmilsmom]

Gee, that’s exactly what Warren Buffet found out.
When 0 demonizes Corporate airplanes, Buffet’s airplane business dies.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

We not only work harder than all those we provide jobs for, we also provide nearly all the capital and take all the risks to create businesses and build communities and retail centers and everything else that provide the majority of jobs.

I agree with the article writer that Matthews' idea is nonsense. But class warfare is incorrect both ways and the idea that any group has a monopoly on hard work and usefulness is also detrimental. Some of the hardest working, most honorable and socially useful people work the so-called humblest jobs.

[Gondring]

I think the original is the correct one. You will eliminate the rich before you eliminate the poor.

[Gondring]

[...] class warfare is incorrect both ways and the idea that any group has a monopoly on hard work and usefulness is also detrimental. Some of the hardest working, most honorable and socially useful people work the so-called humblest jobs.

Right on the nose. And the assumption that capitalism perfectly allocates resources according to value is a fallacy that has been quite clearly demonstrated. A person who could be quite valuable to others but cannot bargain well is not paid as well as those who create nothing but can swindle a deal.

[Gondring]

Ugh...I mean that those who don’t do what the government wants get taxed more than those who comply with government desires. It’s a fine on non-compliance.