Posted on 12/10/2012 6:43:34 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Is it possible to have a principled opposition to raising tax rates to avoid the fiscal cliff? It seems that Joe Scarborough doesn't think so. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough suggested that those on the "far, far right" in the "conservative entertainment complex" and in the ranks of political consultants who oppose tax rate hikes do so out of base material motives.
According to Scarborough, speaking of such "far, far right" tax-increase opponents, "conservatism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very rich."
View the video here.
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Do you oppose higher tax rates? Joe Scarborough thinks you’re a racketeer. Ping to Today show list.
Do you oppose higher tax rates? Joe Scarborough thinks you’re a racketeer. Ping to Today show list.
What do you expect froma NYC liberal?
Like higly paid Hollywood actors, “sports” celebrities, “news” Men.
This is the left narrative post election. There is no conservative movement. Just an ‘entertainment’ network to make money. It is shocking that 40% of the country is self-described as conservative, yet somehow the left has redefined it as fringe and insignificant.
And... a lot of people getting rich is a bad thing??? How times have changed...
Whereas socilaism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very poor while a few of their "enlightened leaders" get very, very rich.
propagandist who will eventually fall victim to the regime, he he he he he he!!!!! those who do not know history are destined to repeat it! Ask the Russians, ask the Nazis, ask pol pot. “But wait! wait, I was onboard for you guys I carried the torch I supported you when you were young and up and coming....ARG!...CHOKE, SNIVEL, WHINE AND GASP”!USEFULL IDIOTS!
And prey tell what is Obamanism...
So how does Scarborough classify Union leaders? And what of all the poverty pimps?
Again with the projection.
All politics is a racket for a lot of people to get very very rich.
You mean, just like you, Joe Scarborough!
Joe is a stupid A-hole.
And liberalism is a scheme to make almost everyone equally poor. Except the ruling elite.
I agree.
Conservatism is a scheme by which the largest number of people possible get rich.
The antithesis is also true:
Liberalism is a scheme by which the largest number of people remain poor.
Hey Joe you got that backwards. Drive by Al Gore's mansion in Montecito or check out Michael Moore's lakeside mansion in Michigan. These are conmen who got rich from LIBERALISM.
If you really want to see a racket, look at how much hating whitey has spawned and entire "civil rights" industry. Sharpton, west and Jackson have become multi millionaires from hating whitey.
BTW, that would make a good title for a book.
Joe shouldn’t judge everyone by his own actions. He sure is making a lot more money these days than when he was a Pensacola lawyer or Congressman, pretending to be conservative.
Take 100% from everybody. 100% tax. It would not solve the debt problem. Why then do they think taking a smaller amount will work? They don't think logically that's why.
We need MORE taxpayers, not more taxes.
Unnecessary spending HAS to be cut HAS TO BE. . . . . .
Putting more people back to work, cutting spending, (Yes one Christmas tree is enough we don't need 54 trees in the WH, and many many more examples of ZERO spending our money like its water, $4M vacations etc. etc.)
Well, whats not to like then?
History is the best teacher. Joe Scarborough and all those other rich decadent liberals in Hollywood, NY, and in the media are reminiscent of all those upper middle class, wealthy and even aristocratic Russians who enthusiastically financed and supported the culture destroying Bolsheviks. By 1925 most of them were dust and footnotes.
Cool!!! I’m a conservative. When do I get really, really rich??
True!
And socialism is a racket for a lot of people to become very, very poor...and to be enslaved by the state.
What a jerk! The fact is that the ultra rich are not affected by this. It’s those people who have sacrificed for years and years, not making money for many of them, and who are now in a position to benefit from their efforts and ‘make up’ to some extent for the years of sacrifice and the years of much lower income, who will be affected the worst. I trained for 13 years, after college, to do what I do. Four of those years I was paying tuition and accumulating student loan debt, for the next 9 years I averaged ~$30,000/yr. salary. I made some additional income by moonlighting overnights and weekends, and used that to pay the student loan debt before it crushed me. I’ve never taken a dime from the federal or state government. I have taken a total of probably 5 weeks vacation in the past 7 years. So why exactly should I be punished? What is my fair share?
You are right. What bothers me about these comments is that even if true, it doesn’t invalidate the correctness of conservatism. Meanwhile, being a turn coat Republican, like Joe Scarborough, is an even bigger racket.
Conservatism is a racket to make a lot of people rich, that is why we were the richest nation on earth. Socialism is a racket to make a small minority rich, and that is why we no longer are a rich nation.
joe, you are depraved. You are supposed to be producing something, not being a drain on the resources without putting back in, you moron
More like Rush, Glen, Mark, Dennis, etc.....and now Jim DeMint....
And don’t forget. He was a 4 term GOP Congressman. How many of our GOP congressmen today secretly think the same way?
I oppose higher tax rates on the “rich” precisely BECAUSE of the adverse affect it will have on the poor.
The “rich” happen to have a function in the private sector, and that of course is to put excess capital at risk. Without having altruistic motives, the “rich” function as benefactors to the poor, because they are our employers and our investors.
Extracting money through taxes from the “rich” causes layoffs (harms the poor), and increased prices on everything, every product and every service, that these “rich” employers provide. This also harms the poor.
In short, the poor will pay disproportionately for the increased taxes on the “rich”.
This is the way we should be articulating our opposition to taxes on the “rich”.
Joe should write a book:
“How I Made The Jump From RINO To Liberal Water Boy”
I guess the converse is...:
Liberalism is the ability to fool stupid people in to believing that Democrats are there to help, while enslaving and dooming generations of stupid carbon units into thinking that working for a living is foolish, and blaming others for your parasitic lifestyle is the fault of someone else.
Silly liberal carbon units of the PC (Parasite Class) "being lazy, stupid and ignorant, is no way to go through life, nor is living off the labor of others.
Yeah. Like you. A$$hole.
First, they play the role of an aggrieved minority, bravely fighting against a big, bad, bullying monolith. This is the "wolf in sheep's clothing" stage, in which coordinated interests conspire to take over civil institutions, often over a prolonged period of time. During this phase, radicals pretend to support the institutions that they truly mean to destroy or to utterly re-make.
Then upon achieving power, they seek to marginalize, demonize, accuse and blame the opposition for all manner of societal problems. They begin to consolidate power by working to de-legitimize the ideas and beliefs of opponents, placing them beyond the pale of civil society, slowly introducing the idea that they are a problem, a threat, a danger.
Hmmm, I wonder what comes next.... (read your history).
‘Conservatism Is A Racket For A Lot Of People To Get Very, Very Rich’
Not like being a shill for some 3rd rate leftist propaganda mill.
I’m a conservative and I’m poor. Please, Joe, tell me the secret!
Just another media-slut slander moment...???
How much did they pay for you to sell your soul to the last-place non-news org??
I think we'll just call you "traitor" from the get-go...
Saves time...
KMCA....
It is not often you get to see the outright ignorance of a person in the media but this is proof of Scarborough’s ignorance graduated to stupidity.
If thinking were something Scarborough was capable of, he would have noticed by now that corrupted politics is the racket.
Government is corrupted. All it comes down to is which form of corruption you favor. It really doesn’t matter whether your favorite corruption is Liberal or Conservative, Democrat, Republican, left, or right.
And Rich Liberal Republicans like you, Joe “I found a dead girl in my office” Scarborough, get very, very rich trashing Conservatives for your big paycheck on the liberal network you agree to work for.
Whereas Liberalism is a racket for lots and lots of people to get very poor.
Liberals are driven by a need to HELP.
Liberals believe that Rich People do not need HELP.
Liberals believe that Poor People do need HELP.
So the sooner the Liberals can make the Rich People Poor,
The sooner the Liberals can HELP them.
(BTW Scarborough, you have my permission to read this on MSNBC, (More Socialists Now Bow to Communism).
Refreshing to see some Truth and Honestly from Ol Joe. Sadly, he seems to think that it is a BAD thing for the maximum number of people to become wealthy.
You mean like you, Scumborough? Any dead girls show up in your office lately Joe?
“conservatism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very rich.”
Actually, it is.
Socialism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very poor and miserable.
Mr. MSNBC “libertarian conservative” doing his part for the constitution. “Them conservatives need to shut up and let my shallow, self interested butt speak for the oppostion to the communists.”
Joe you serve no purpose. At least Myna is pleasant to look at, until she opens her yap.
Hey joe (sounds like a hendrix song), the dirty little secret is that you socialists need those rich people’s money to fund all these programs. Once the host is consumed or moves elsewhere you will not be able to sustain the spending. Perhaps that’s the plan. Capitalism collapses and the only thing left standing is government.
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