From Precious Ezra Klein:
Democrats are going to lose this one. The first stage of the emerging deal doesn’t include revenue, doesn’t include stimulus, and lets Republicans pocket a trillion dollars or more in cuts without offering anything to Democrats in return.
Isn’t that fun? “Pocketing a trillion dollars” — again, as if these dollars — really 40 cents of which is borrowed — were not created by the sweat of the taxpayers sending it into the great maw of D.C., but were Gov property in the first place. Government property that Republicans are stuffing into their pockets or socks like a thousand Sandy Bergers, cackling at their cleverness.
I am sick to death of the nakedly cynical term “enhanced revenues” in place of “higher taxes.” Well past time for small-government types, inside and outside the Beltway, to grow a pair and forcefully stop any conversation or debate each time that phrase oozes from the lips of illiberals.
Does he mean literally that the GOP pockets a trillion dollars, or does he mean that the GOP can pocket the “achievement” of cutting a trillion dollars? Either way, how is this bad?
Why don’t the Dems start looking at ways to let ordinary people keep a trillion dollars of their own? Oh, that’s right — because Dems think ordinary people are those who depend on the Dems for their sustenance. Silly me.
The “comments” below Ezra Klein’s literary excrement are even worse. Maybe it is time for the cyanide pills. There are too many Commiecrats.
..or being stolen from God knows how many generations yet unborn.
So we’ll just have to manufacture more pills.
Wait, what?
there’s a new trillion dollar coin coming out.
fit’s in your pocket
This same Klein piece was linked at Althouse where she asked the question:
“Why do Democrats want high taxation as their brand?”
I went into this once before but it is worth stating again.
The tax increases talked about, income taxes, do not effect the base[s] of the Democrats. A large group of their base pay no income tax and in fact get money back from the income tax system far in excess to any they might have payed in during a given year. That is one group.
Another consists of union government employees. Though they might see their taxes increase somewhat they know that they will get increases from the additional revenue that will be generally larger than the additional tax, plus as government grows so does their job security and power of their position.
The last group is the wealthy. Not the “rich” but the wealthy. The “rich” that the Democrats castigate are what was once referred to as the “bourgeois”, and what we call the upper middle class, small business owners. To the wealthy they are seen as a threat. They are the up-and-comers whose strivings can shake the order of wealth and cause the downfall of families of wealth. The wealthy do not worry about income taxes, they have plenty of ways to shelter from any increases unlike the small business person who can be hurt by them.
The deal for all these goes like this. To the wealthy, “We will tax those pesky guys just below you and help keep them in their place, we will use the money to pay off and satiate the howling mob of the poor so that they don’t come to your door with ropes.”
To the poor, “We will take money from those lucky rich guys and give it to you.”
To the government employees, “We will siphon most of the money off into your hands on its way to the poor and we shall both get lauded as caring, loving, good people for it.”
Higher taxes, the Democrat way of government.
Paid not payed, sigh.
#6 is why everyone needs to pay Federal income taxes, even if it’s a relatively small amount. Plus, that amount needs to be raised every time taxes are raised for anyone else.
geoffb: That’s all well and good — the thing I don’t understand is why there’s so much support for the Party of Higher Taxes amongst the professional class (*). Highly-paid people who don’t work for the government, and will never be the ‘wealthy’ that get to hide their income.
I know a woman who works in NYC doing some-damned-thing in IT, making $150K/yr or so. Lives in New Jersey, where that’s still ‘real’ money, and actively wants taxes to raised (get rid of the evil Bush tax cuts!). So as to make a better world or some such; I don’t know.
When it’s suggested that there’s nothing stopping her from writing a check and paying extra taxes right this second, she looks at me like I’m crazy. I think it’s an envy thing; she’d happily pay more in tax as long as those above her get really soaked, the bastards.
Which I don’t understand, as she makes many times my annual salary, and I don’t want to screw her over so I can get ‘free’ money from the Government. I’d be thrilled if both of us paid a flat 15% of our respective, and very different, income levels.
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* Not counting lawyers, and various other professions that are more-or-less in bed with the Government at some level or another. It’s quite clear why they are pro-big-govt, even if it does mean being pro-big-taxes.
You are probably right on the envy. And I wouldn’t understand her either.
Religious guilt, I’d reckon. Don’t really understand it, but it has been around forever. Progressivism is founded on it, like most other religions.
Hairy Reid (or is it “Red”) and his Marxist minions, who think that the little jug earred stupid fuck-head is the New Messiah, have made sure that there is NOTHING – NOTHING! – but bullshit in this bill…
And so have the RINOs. Seven billion in savings? WOW! SEVEN BILLION?” THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! My investments are SAVED!
Oh!
Excuse me!
You mean to say that you WON’T spend that extra 7 billion on your 2.4 TRILLION raise in spending? And that’s a fucking “cut”?
I don’t know, but it sounds like more of an insult to human intelligence to me.
HA! Unfortunately, most Americans ARE pretty stupid (thank you DOE). To think that our money that the government has decided “not to spend” is a fucking cut? While they SPEND 2.4 trillion dollars more? Do we live in the “Fun House?”
Yup. Apparently. Why not actually CUT some REAL spending? Because the crack-head entitlement bums won’t vote for them if they do. “Fuck America, my re-election is much more important than that piddly horse shit!”
WTF?
Sorry. At least I am not THAT monumentally stupid. About other things, for sure, but not the assholes who spend their shitty, greedy and priveledged little lives pretending to “represent” the American people while they eat our brains and make us burn our food in our cars, make us use toilets that leave skid marks, and make us use light bulbs that we need to call the EPA if we break them.
YEEHAW!.
The worst thing is that so many Americans swallow this giant dick – balls and all. Thank you, Mr. Boner-up-to-here. You are truly a man of principle. I hope you get it six feet up your butt in the next election. I’m amazed that there aren’t a lot more people gagging on this giant “chew-stick with nuts”.
Fuck me! Seven Billion? What a fucking joke! That’s absolute DC bullshit, even by their own standards. LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!! Sorry. I meant to say “BULLSHIT!!!!” I can’t put my font on 256, or I would.
We have one more chance, IF we make it to the next election. Which is becoming more dubious every day.
Sometimes I think that I will be one of the first lined up against the wall for permanent “re-education”. And, make no mistake, if you don’t believe these Marxist morons will wipe out ANYONE who has said a word against them, you ain’t read history, or you believe that it is a fairy tale. It’s not. PW is probably on the “urgent” list for these assholes when they finally overcome their own ignored murderous history and fuck this whole country.
These monsters have an eye (or maybe I should say a “scope”) on those of us who treasure liberty and free speech. Hairy Red makes me puke. I can’t even watch him or listen to him. He is the lowest form of life on the planet (Well, maybe he is neck-and-neck with Al Gore and Jug Ears).
I am not allowed to say “terrorist”?
You gotta be kidding me! Our government gives guns to the Narco-gangs in Mexico, and then shits their pants when one of our American Border Patrol agents is killed by one of these weapons. Some of these weapons are going to Hamas and Hezbollah (who do have a presence in Mexico)).
If this was Bush, he would be dead meat. The clamor would be ear-splitting. Nes-pas?
Obama and Holder?
Absolute fucking angels. “I know nutting”.
I would bet the ranch that everyone at PW has a “dossier” with Jug Ears infantile horde of flaming, historically ignorant government “fuck-you-white-people” assholes, who are too illiterate to know that they CAN’T do it better (they are stupid enough to think that they CAN)…To them, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot were right, they just did it the wrong way. Communism just DOESN’T work, and millions of people die, but these clueless illiterates, who would be fired in the real business world, think that THEY can do it better. “I’ll just take your dough, Bro”. When “Bro’ runs out of money, who do you turn to?
“Ghostbusters” or your AK-47?
“Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot just didn’t ruthlessly murder enough people! Over one hundred million murdered by communists? It just WASN’T ENOUGH! MURDER TWO HUNDRED MILLION, AND OUR MARXIST BULLSHIT WOULD WORK!” Those humongous piles of skulls just weren’t big enough. Not enough dead people, eh?
Good luck anywhere else in the real world, you otherwise unemployable government cretins. Especially when you come after us because you are too stupid to live, but, by some twist of illiteracy, assholes who call themselves “representatives” while filling their pockets faster then their hands can move, and educational super brain farts, think that WE are the ones who are too stupid to live, and that free speech is only an illusion perpetrated by old, racist white fucks.
“Shut up, Honky! How dare you even open your mouth?”
Useful idiots.
And also, perversly, they are as dead as we will be if the Marxists pull this off. Stupid people must die, along with the smart ones. They might “believe in the cause”, and get in “Snowflake’s” way…
“Animal Farm”, bozos? Fucking TOTAL BRAINDEAD IDIOTS! Some are more equal than others, unlike what America has always been about.
How cool! Suicide by ignorance and illiteracy! “Hey! But I’m a minority! I deserve a break, instead of deserving to be a human being who is proud of my own efforts and accomplishments”. GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!!!!!”
“I can speak to you in gibberish that you can barely understand, BUT YOU’D BETTER FUCKIN’ HIRE ME! I MAY BE USELESS, BUT WHO, THAT MATTERS, CARES? I AM THE LIGHTGIVER’S CHILD! And if you expect me to expend any energy on making myself better or helping your business, you are sorely mistaken. I am cool as can be as an illiterate jerk-off who can barely, if at all, speak english. Just ask MY government! THEY KNOW HOW COOL MY BRAIN-DEADNESS IS! AND WILL ENFORCE IT BY LAW!”
Fucking perfect!
Come get me, you Marxist asshole stupid MoFos.
I have no illusions how it will end, but I have some surprises for you…Many of you will be making that trip with me.
That, and cheap grace.
We should hang onto that cheap grace description for a bit because it works where I sometimes otherwise chafe with “this or that thing is also a religion”.
Here’s an initial thought… I don’t like equating things I dislike such as socialism or strident atheism with religion. It’s like trying to insult dog shit by saying it’s sort of like apple pie. No. It makes no sense.
But, cheap grace is a thing that makes sense to me. Because it takes the human element of it (a bit like religious guilt, as well) that exists everywhere and places that in the central point. Yes, that can be quite terrible. Can suck plenty of ass.
This isn’t a fully formed thought. But, as a non-believer, it’s a thing I’d much prefer to say myself. I’d never say something sucks because it’s like a religion. But to say that it’s full of cheap grace? Yeah, that’s right there to be seen, isn’t it?
Okay, it’s now a fully formed thought. As I’ve now thought about it.
I do indeed agree with what I just said. As should all of you.
Cults are about cheap grace. In religion grace is both free and priceless. The most precious gift you can ever have bestowed upon you.
I think that’s almost exactly what I’m saying, Geoff.
At some point we could hit the edges of “no true Scotsman” as we pulled it apart but there seems to be a true qualitative difference there.
I wrote 17 before I saw 16 so I was just trying to see if I understood your thoughts by saying what mine were.
WHOA! TLD!
A little attitude, maybe?
Yeah, sorry.
When you are being raped by the courts, you sometimes transfer your anger a few degrees.
But all you women who wish to get divorced. Here’s some tips.
First of all, stay blind drunk for six years, go to prison for four and a half months, make your husband pay two thousand dollars to make sure you don’t have to stay there for 2 more years, try to commit suicide and cover your two year old son with your blood while saying “I love you”, run up $800/mo electric bills, help out your husbands booming business by making sure he has to come home every day at noon because you are fucked up out of your mind, run the credit cards up like Obama, throw a thousand dollars worth of electronics into a bathtub full of water, pass out for three hours in the driveway with your 2 year old son in the stroller, then accuse your husband of kidnapping when he shows up and takes your son away (which will land you in the psych ward for two weeks) beat the shit out of your spouse every night, do not allow him to sleep, steal ALL of his money, hit things so hard with your car that it is totalled, but, please, don’t remember what it was that you hit, get two DUI’s in ten days, forge some checks, and then TA-DA! – leave, without telling him, taking his son and all of his money, saying “You never did anything for this family”..
Then go to court, put on your best doe-eyes and wobble up to the stand with a cane, and act like you have been abused, and that all your physical ailiments weren’t supplied by your own natural state of oblivion and an inability to stand erect for more than fifteen seconds without something to lean on.
Holy Moly, Batman! Worked like a charm, it did! My sentence?
Permanent poverty, and a lifetime time-share in a roadside culvert. I used to have enough money to live comfortably. Not so much now…
Yeah. I know. Bad attitude.
Thought it might make you laugh, though…
Heh. Well, it was a bulls-eye (bulls eye? bullseye?), Geoff.
It helps to have a sense of what is “true” (as in real or authentic) religion versus false religion.
that is a terrible story I don’t like that lady I can’t help it she sounds like a very uncaring person
and scary
“geoffb posted on8/1 @ 9:31 pm
Cults are about cheap grace. In religion grace is both free and priceless. The most precious gift you can ever have bestowed upon you.”
I do believe in something way beyond what our brains are capable of understanding, but don’t forget that THEY tell you that you will live forever in heaven, where the lion lies down with the lamb (regardless of eons of DNA and anatomy), they will both eat vegetables (this really makes me laugh out loud), and you can pet them both at the same time while they smile at each other, while you wear your finest summer dress, and smile ’til your mouth hurts and your teeth fall out.
OH! Wait!
In heaven, teeth don’t fall out!..
And the pictures they show you of this “miracle” are straight out of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. A three thousand dollar suit and a condescending attitude does not (for me, anyway) make you an emissary of Jehovah. Just the opposite. You are an emissary for yourself.
OK. got it! I’m ready.
Save me, baby! Look at me with your frog eyes and tell me that YOU are between me and God, and that I am not smart enough to know when I live in God’s light. Sometimes, our darker side chooses not to live in the light, but Jehovah is always there, twiddling his thumbs while he waits for us. god has no hands, feet, arms, legs or nose.
God just IS, and is waiting for us to be “is”….
I DO believe in something that exists beyond our capability to understand, but not in a manure pit of human created horseshit.
hf –
I’m assuming you are referring to my post, and I must tell you, this woman could charm the skin off of a snake. And would. My sponsor (who is a psycotherapist) told me: “I’m not legally allowed to say this, but your wife is the most selfish person I have ever met”. That’s going some, huh?
I just have a lot of anger because of my son, who is learning every day how to be just like her. I really don’t give a fig about her, but having a young son makes this period very trying – especially when she takes 80+% of the money I make, and the judge thinks that I am the bad guy….
Thank you. I don’t really care for her, either….
yes she sounds very take take take never give always take
we need a balanced approach
hf-
Excuse me?
Are you hf, or John Boehner?
Just kidding.
And, by the way, “take, take, take” doesn’t even come close to a description of this devil-woman. It’s more like slash and burn.
Thanks.
I am trying hard to lose my anger, but it is semi-hard, hard, hard…(pun intended). It is depressing and debillitating to lose everything you have worked for your whole life to an absolute fucking lying, drug addicted lunatic with a penchant for manipulation. And she is as good or better at it than anyone I have ever known.
Just remember, if you are too young to know better – those aren’t boobs, they are bait.
I think I talk about anger here to help release it. Hasn’t worked great so far, and my anger may rear it’s ugly head again.
Hope not. I’d rather amuse than bitch…
Maybe I can stick to the “meme” from here on.
TLD