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1 posted on 12/17/2013 4:09:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Those in leadership should know their history & learn from it. Sadly, they never do.


2 posted on 12/17/2013 4:33:25 AM PST by FES0844
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No longer merely spineless, stupid, and cowardly, Cry Baby must now be considered willfully complicit in the destruction of the US economy.


3 posted on 12/17/2013 4:41:25 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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your correct.
those whom don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

4 posted on 12/17/2013 4:42:38 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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This isn't a justification of the aviation passenger tax/fee, but there's a lot more to it than what this article lays out.

For one thing, the GOP (correctly) sees this kind of revenue as a palatable alternative to income taxes, corporate taxes, etc. -- mainly because it is targeted to discretionary customers of a certain industry that relies heavily on taxpayer funds to stay in business.

Secondly, the author of the article is disingenuous when he suggests that there is something wrong with directing the revenue from the passenger tax/fee to the general fund instead of the TSA. The airline industry already costs the taxpayers a lot of money from the general treasury that goes way beyond just the TSA (the entire Federal Aviation Administration, for example). These Federal expenditures are hardly a justifiable use of tax revenues that are paid by the general public, most of whom will go through an entire year without even boarding an airplane.

This particular issue was the subject of an interesting radio interview I heard last weekend, and the consensus of the participants was that one of the long-term goals of the GOP is to gradually replace general tax revenues with industry-specific taxes and fees that actually make more sense from the perspective of a user-beneficiary comparison.

5 posted on 12/17/2013 4:47:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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Boehner will allow a vote on immigration reform, piecemeal or otherwise. But it matters not as the Senate bill will be inserted in any bill the Speaker allows the House to vote on.

The illegals will be legalized and they will vote in 2014 even though they are not citizens. They will register and vote because laws do not matter to them.

It will be a gargantuan task to remove the millions of illegals that will register to vote from the voter rolls. But they must be removed! It will be difficult because the leftist press will shriek that the removals constitute discrimination and voter suppression. And it will be difficult because there must be positive proof that they are not citizens. They will sign on penalty of perjury that they are citizens and are eligible to vote. But laws do not matter to them.

So how to remove illegals from voter rolls?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/08/Florida-Thumbs-Nose-at-DOJ-Cleans-Voter-Rolls-of-Illegals


6 posted on 12/17/2013 4:50:04 AM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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BUT during an election any number of shills here will tell you he’s better than the democrat. Really? How is that? Looks to me like he does all the same things a dem would do but in just a slightly different way.


7 posted on 12/17/2013 4:58:59 AM PST by 556x45
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What is being overlooked here is the concept of trends..If businesses and private families deem it too expensive to fly they can stop doing it in droves and suddenly with devastating effect on the industry. Investors see low profits and shift their money somewhere else and overnight another American industry goes the way of the buffalo. As noted in Dr. Zhivago, one person stealing firewood is not a problem, but if millions start doing it, it will destroy a city.
More importantly, politicians don’t even pretend anymore to look at ways to cut government costs.. only look for ways to increase taxes... May a revolution engulf them!


8 posted on 12/17/2013 5:03:55 AM PST by ArtDodger
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One of the advantages of going Galt is not having to fly and therefore not having to pay this new tax.


13 posted on 12/17/2013 5:21:39 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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And, people wonder why I go to the expense of owning a private plane and flying myself. As much as I travel, it’s cheaper and safer.


19 posted on 12/17/2013 7:04:36 AM PST by eastexsteve
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