Posted on 11/19/2011 3:30:19 AM PST by Kaslin
“The Post Office has never lost the U.S. Congress in over 200 years..”
Maybe that explains why they think they’re Santa Claus.
That's why I said to sunset it.
People who already have it, get it.
People who get new mortgages don't get it.
It will depress the price of houses slightly, but that just proves it's a subsidy.
And it has not been the case that houses “plummet” in value like new cars, so that is just a red herring.
Then why are so many people walking away from their mortgages?
Mortgage-interest deduction is a subsidy.
But you aren't honest enough to admit it, just as I predicted.
Here’s where that political science degree from American University comes in handy. It is Marxism 101 that the revolution can’t be successful without the destruction of the petit burgeouise - the middle class. And it proceeding right now.
Look, I don’t deny that it is a subsidy, clearly it is.
The drop in housing prices is a very recent turn of events, but people are not walking away from their houses because the houses have lost value. They are walking away because they can’t pay their mortgages, or at least most are doing it for this reason.
That is part of what is causing the value of the homes to drop, too much supply, not the other way around.
Take away the interest deduction and see what happens to mortgage payments at that point.
You say it will depress the price “slightly” but I think it will bring the market completely to a halt.
But maybe like Obama you want to put “fairness” ahead of everything else.
I don’t want to pay any more taxes. I think I pay enough taxes right now. And I’ve been paying them for a long damn time and I anticipate continuing to pay them for several decades. But I’m exceedingly tired of having my money spent to provide for overpaid gov’t workers and ne’re do wells. Now we are expected to provide 3 meals a day to school children in addtion to the foodstamps their families already get in addition to the sec. 8 housing SUBSIDY their families get in addition to the free cells phones their families get, etc. etc. etc.
Call me greedy, stupid, a racist, anti-military, un-American, I don’t really care. I’ve had it. I don’t want to give the gov’t any more money under any scheme or plan. I don’t want to SUBSIDIZE them any further. Not one penny more.
Come up with whatever plan you like, if it’s going to cost me more money, I’m against it.
Anybody who wants to give the Feds more money, send them a check, they’ll be happy to get it.
When one faces a Obama/Pelosi/Reid Death Panel, anyone wonder if their political affiliation will have any bearing on whether or not they get medical care? Anyone out there think it was designed that way?
We on Free Republic are on such a list, I’m sure.
The fact of the matter is, we got here with special-interest subsidies, and "here" is the complete and total collapse of the financial system. The longer we put it off, the worse it is going to be.
I certainly wouldn't want to take away any of your favorite special-interest subsidies, and I am sure you wouldn't want to take away anybody else's in the interest of "fairness," so lets just wait for the bleeding SOB to explode in our faces.
I am certain you deserve it.
I'm willing to make whatever sacrifices of free government stuff required, so I'm not so sure about me.
I think I’ve stated pretty clearly some things I’d be willing to take away from people. Let’s start with the school dinner program, NPR funding, sec. 8 housing, “wage” based COLAs for soc. sec. recipients, “disability” payments for drunks, drug addicts and probably a whole bunch of other people, medicare for the wealthy and the current system of medicare.
I’ve never been on unemployment and my income has always been way too high to qualify for any kind of aid. I managed to feed my kid 3 meals a day. I pay the taxes that are required of me. I give to charity.
I’m tired of being told I haven’t done/paid/given enough.
Come next summer, we all start reaping the fruits of "gimme gimme gimme."
Got'cher "fundamental change" coming right up.
Count on it and know that they’re reading every comment 24/7.
Count on it and know that they’re reading every comment 24/7.
They can kizz my azz.
FUBO!!!!
” Even RINOs like Hewitt are upset.”
Or at least he’s feigning anger like he did when he pretended to be upset over illegal immigration awhile back.
Hugh Hewitt is one of the more accomplished frauds trying to appeal to conservatives in order to manipulate them. His pal Michael Medved is cut out of the same cloth.
“A RINO is someone that votes mostly with the rats. You don’t know how Hewitt votes, so you can not call him a RINO”
Yes, EV should have said CINO, conservative in name only, instead. That fits Hewitt far more closely.
Hewitt is without a doubt a Republican. Years of Hewitt-watching have taught me that Hewitt’s one lone principle, if it can be called one, is fealty to the Republican Party.
Right now Hugh is dragging out copies of his book “A Mormon in the White House” in preparation for Willard’s triumphal procession down Pennsylvania Avenue. Hugh will, of course, humbly accept Romney’s invitation to join his administration.
” Sound familiar?”
Uh....Germany ?
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