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akuma587 on 17 April 2009
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TheRealMafoo said:
luinil said:
akuma587 said:
I think the most ironic part is that 95% of the country is getting a tax cut. So unless every member of those protests is part of that 5%, they are actually protesting Obama's choice to cut their taxes.

I wonder how 95% can get a tax cut when only 50% pay taxes to begin with....

 

If it doesn’t matter if you collect as much money as you spend, why collect taxes at all?

They are protesting, because they know that the math does not work out. When you spend money you don’t have, you have to earn it back at some point. To say we are going to double or triple the expenses, but not take any more taxes from people, reminds us all of the famous saying:

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

When he said “we will cross that bridge when we get to it”, what he really meant was “we will put these programs in place now that become extremely difficult to remove, and then we will raise taxes to pay for them”.

When the people you are manipulating don’t look more then 3 months into the future, it’s easy to sway them.

So why weren't they protesting during the Bush Adminstration, or the Bush Sr. Adminstration, or the Reagan Adminstration?  Reagan was even specifically known for his "voodoo economics" of increasing spending and cutting taxes.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson