Posted on 12/23/2010 6:07:54 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Jeffrey Sachs has attacked distinguished military historian Victor Davis Hanson as an "extremist" who "has done more harm to the American people" than any other commentator.
Sachs, a Columbia prof and income redistributionist supreme, launched his surprising verbal assault in commenting on Hanson's National Review Online column, "The Obamites' About-Face." Hanson there makes the case that out of political pragmatism, Obama has flip-flopped on everything from "the environment, radical Islam, taxes, stimulus, the economy, national security" to foreign policy.
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Victor Davis Hanson - somebody.
Jeffrey Sach-munch - nobody.
I have no use for a crypto communist like Sachs. On the other hand, Hanson is a neo con, and one of those who argued us into the position we are in where we are overstreached and bankrupt. Dr. Hanson knows and knew far better than that because he wrote about the collapse of the Athenian empire when they became overstretched and started to defend the periphery, which they could not afford, thereby losing the core of their Empire and existence.
A lot of the time Dr. Hanson writes tellingly, but no competent scholar would make the egregious error that he made. We are going to be paying for Bush's escapades for several decades.
I think they figured out a way. They call it the death tax.
That's not the reason.
There are 535 examples of why we don't go where the money is sitting right there on Capitol Hill.
If pols were taxed based on their wealth instead of the income, they might not be so eager to keep raising taxes.
How much longer before we take away this soft, nondemanding, wholly unproductive lifestyle from these no-talent Commie “professors”.
Their easy, safe and protected existence is largely provided on our backs after all.
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A very valid question.
Taxing wealth, while probably not totally fair (I'd have to think about it), is MUCH better than taxing income, even with a flat RATE scheme, which is usually mistakenly referred to as a “Flat Tax”.
Sachs is quite an screwball if he really thinks that telling the truth does harm.
Just my opinion of course.
Sachs is spelled wrong, I have it on good authority that it’s “u”, not an “a.”
Soros could have not have wreaked the havoc he did in Eastern Europe, without Jeffrey Sachs and his “shock therapy”. These cruel individuals continue to boast about it. What better example of Sachs than to witness him taking the good character of another - it’s what Marxists do in order to hide their own evil.
And someone like VDH understands what passes for leftist thinking far better than anyone who has never been a liberal. That makes for very insightful commentary.
Like 0bama, Sachs is a stooge of George Soros.
Googling “Jeffrey Sachs” and “George Soros” pulls up a plethora of articles linking the two.
They tax both.
Lots of areas & states also have ‘personal property taxes’ on everything they own.
Because what they truly want is a feudalist system.
They don’t want anyone else accumulating wealth.
I’m a huge VDH fan, and I must say to Professor Hanson, You must be doing something right; you know you’re over the target when you’re taking flak.
Which part of the American populace dreamed up “Trusts’ to be put into place instead of just plain wills?????
I want to know who will eventually have to pay the taxes that this generation of people with trusts are so fond of?
I have a neighbor who insists that he needed a trust because probate would drag out for tens of years on his estate!!!
The man has a small property with a 35 ++ year old manufactured home on it, 2 trucks which don’t total $15,000 in calue, a very old llama & a pasture pet horse.
His entire estate isn’t worth $30,000 & he tries to talk like he ‘had to get a trust’ & so should everybody else!!!
The answer is easy if you go back to the book (Marx’s The Communist Manifesto)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Marx takes care wealth in Rule 3
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Rule 4 is where they come for us.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
“Lots of areas & states also have ‘personal property taxes’ on everything they own.”
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Here in Missouri the thieving PP Tax is just on cars, boats and motorcycles I believe.
Do you mean there are some states that actually scour the entire personal balance sheet?
A younger looking version of total Lefty Robert Redford.
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