Obama Calls It Fairness. The GOP Calls It Class Warfare. Scripture Calls It Envy

Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2012 | Doug Giles

[NTHockey]

Fairness means equitable to everyone. Nowhere in all this discussion is mention made of the 47% who pay ZERO income taxes. When everyone pays, then we can start talking about “taxing the rich” and being unfair.

[scbison]

Instead of envy, it is covetenous, which is spelled out directly in the 10 commandments.

[Track9]

Great read. Should be printed on every Unitarian Church flyer and EBT card.

The more envy grows, the more it drives its impenitent coddler nuts.

[Jerrybob]

Absolutely true. "That's just not fair". Has nothing to do with truth, justice, equity -- nothing.

And it is a poison -- only this poison kills very, very slowly -- and it kills everything it touches -- people, societies, organizations...

And it fits perfectly with the present occupant of the White House.

[Rapscallion]

His favorite "fair" tactic seems to be to tell the other party to do this or that and then viciously smash them with outright lies and falsehoods saying that they resist. He is not the author of How To Win Friends And Influence People.

Nothing is too low for what Mr. Obama calls "fairness".

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Blame Ronald Reagan for the 47%. He believed in lowering the tax burden to everone, nowhere more than for workers with near subsistance incomes. Reagan said in 1984:

"The Census Bureau confirms that, because of the tax laws we inherited, the number of households at or below the poverty level paying Federal income tax more than doubled between 1980 and 1982. Well, they received some relief in 1983, when our across-the-board tax cut was fully in place. And they'll get more help when indexing goes into effect this January."

Republicans complaining about ANYBODY paying too little tax is not a winning move. It certainly wasn't Reagan's way.

[trebb]

Instead of envy, it is covetenous, which is spelled out directly in the 10 commandments.

Yep - while "envy" is associated with "covet", "covet" fits: to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.

[TexasCajun]

Yo Bari! ...

Something for nothing is not fair !

It's called welfare and it used to be in this country where an able-bodied man was embarrassed and scorned to be dependent upon government.

But now under Obamanomics, un-motivated able-bodied men happily take 96 week Obamah-paid vacations while they claim to be looking for work.

How times have changed.

[VRW Conspirator]

Envy is not a virtue. Jealousy is not a family value. Socialism is institutionalization of jealousy, of envy, of covetness.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

In the story of “The three little pigs” ‘fairness’ to Obama would be forcing the industrious pig, who worked hard and built his house of strong brick, to pay for someone to come and build comparable houses for the other two pigs who sat on their butts and hadn't put the effort in.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Envy is not a virtue. Jealousy is not a family value. Socialism is institutionalization of jealousy, of envy, of covetousness.”

So true.

[yldstrk]

Fair my eye, they want to have theri cake and yours too. Joe Blow wants to buy cocaine and have a mansion too.

I talked to a Dr who had a really nice house about his house. He said he saved for that house for 10 years, he didn’t just rip off some dough and go plop down a down payment. Then he planned it with an architect for two years, then built it.

10 years he saved for that house.

[yldstrk]

The Little Red Hen getting to eat the bread she made by herself when everybody else was goofing off illustrates this too

[Lysandru]

I reached this conclusion some months ago. And it is further evidence that the Democratic Party is a tool of Satan. (Yes, I said it.)

Agents of Satan abound in the GOP-- but they have control of the Democrats. The Democrats embrace sin and subsidize it.

[yldstrk]

I agree with you, it is a tool of Satan and it garbage they speak is all lies of Satan

[Reeses]

There's a tremendous amount of wisdom in this article. Like happiness, envy is a choice. The most effective remedy ever discovered to counter the painful emotion envy is the painful emotion of shame. Unfortunately many of those consumed with envy have lost all sense of shame.

“The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.” ― Thomas Moore

[rogue yam]

Ping

[BipolarBob]

Exactly.

[Vaduz]

Obama’s fairness = Socialism