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Title: Obama's Redistribution Scheme Bites Him In The Butt
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Published: Oct 30, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-10-30 20:16:48 by James Deffenbach
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In a local Leesburg restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference--just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more. I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.
Poster Comment: The same friend sent me the cartoon and that little story about the mentally handicapped server in a restaurant wearing political bs that he should have known would offend people and thus cost the people he worked for money (not to mention the tips he would lose from the pissed off people he waited on). I have no use for Obama or McCain but thought the cartoon and that little story were worthy of posting.
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#4. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
the cartoon is perfect and i enjoyed the anecdotal story. thanks for posting, JD.
I must be a little dense or something. Can someone set me straight on what the difference is giving a tax break(like capital gains tax reduction) to the wealthy and making the middle class make up the difference versus giving a tax break to the middle class and having the wealthy make up the difference. When the wealthy get a tax reduction it is a healthy thing to do. When the middle class gets a tax reduction it is wrong and is wealth redistribution. Am I missing somehing here or as I asked, am I dense or something?
When the wealthy get a tax reduction it is a healthy thing to do. When the middle class gets a tax reduction it is wrong and is wealth redistribution. Am I missing somehing here or as I asked, am I dense or something? The truly wealthy - the top 10% of income earners - already account for 60% of gov't revenues. Why should they be taxed more? Why should they be penalized for their success? What's the point of being smart and working hard and aspiring for success if the government will turn around and take more and more of your earnings and give it to strangers sitting on their butts in public housing and smoking weed all day? The middle class are also paying more than their share in taxes and out of proportion to what they take out in terms of gov't services - as per the case of rich - to float the underclass and illegal aliens. Furthermore, where I live an ICU nurse and a small business owner who have a house and some $ invested in stocks would be defined as "rich" under Obama's tax plan. If you accumulate assets, imo, it's yours to spend or give away as you please. It's not for government to steal from you to give to someone else who did not earn it.
I can agree with this. But why should the government give and give and give one tax break after another to the wealthy and then make me pay more to make up for the shortfall of revenue. After all, if the rich didn't employe the illegal aliens and the very poor and working both at substandard wages, we in the middle class wouldn't have to be supporting those who the rich are ripping off. Our system would be perfect if the rich hadn't bought and paid for our politicans thru political bribes. Most of us have learned there is no such thing as a free lunch. We could be living in a societal utopia if only the rich understood that and quit trying to elude paying their fair share.
If the gov't has cut spending and can afford to give tax breaks then of course firstly the rich and secondly the middle class should be the 2 economic groups who should get the tax breaks because they are the ones who are taxed the most. Do you think the poor and the illegals should profit instead when they pay little or nothing? What are you getting at? I'm middle class and I don't believe my federal taxes have gone up under W. Are you sure your state tax isn't the culprit for increases you are experiencing in taxes?
Both state and local taxes have gone up. They have gone up some because of the lost federal revenue and the many programs bush has proposed and passed but failed to make the necessary monies available. A good example is No Child Left Behind. Then we are paying for an illegal war started on lies told to us by the current administration. I am retired now and on a fixed income. It wasn't retirement by choice believe me. I get so damned mad when people call things like social security an entitlement. That may be what it is for the illegal aliens bush allowed to come into our country, but to me it is strictly a return on my investment that I paid into for over 50 years. A mandatory investment no less. Both the employer and I contributed to the SS fund all those years. Funny how the people don't call the exorbitant political salaries and the politicans health care and pensions entitlements. Funny how they need more and more and they expect us to get by on less and less and have been giving away social security money, have been looting the fund, and have been increasing our taxes like we all have a money tree. I guess the figures don't lie, only liars figure. Another 4 more years like the last eight will not onlyremove me from the ranks of lower lower middle class, but will reduce my standard of living to the point I won't have any money to pay all the taxes, federal,state, and local. Thank God I learned to be extremely frugal from my parents who went thru the great depression.
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#7. To: christine, All (#4)
the cartoon is perfect and i enjoyed the anecdotal story. thanks for posting, JD.
#11. To: LACUMO (#7)
I must be a little dense or something. Can someone set me straight on what the difference is giving a tax break(like capital gains tax reduction) to the wealthy and making the middle class make up the difference versus giving a tax break to the middle class and having the wealthy make up the difference.
#14. To: scrapper2 (#11)
If you accumulate assets, imo, it's yours to spend or give away as you please. It's not for government to steal from you to give to someone else who did not earn it.
#15. To: LACUMO (#14)
But why should the government give and give and give one tax break after another to the wealthy and then make me pay more to make up for the shortfall of revenue.
#16. To: scrapper2 (#15)
I'm middle class and I don't believe my federal taxes have gone up under W. Are you sure your state tax isn't the culprit for increases you are experiencing in taxes?
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