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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?
#9. To: LACUMO (#7)
Yea, you see, the wealthy are already paying a greater percentage of their income. They get the break because they pay more, they're in a higher "bracket" which is bullshit "Progressivism". Aside from that, anyone who actually believes the freaking government needs more money or is actually going to do something beneficial for the Republic and it's citizens with it is a fool. Remember, when the government siezed the Mustang Ranch they ended up driving it under, the government can't make money selling sex and booze!. Let them go broke, there will be a lot of misery and chaos but hopefully leading to a rebirth, all giving them more tax money will EVER do is prolong and worsen the misery...
the answer is to reduce taxes for everyone equally, not targeted tax cuts.
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.
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? Ever hear the expression that "a rising tide lifts all boats"? Any and all tax cuts are good things. Tax cuts for "the wealthy" only means the government is stealing a bit less of their money than they were before. Tax reductions are also good when the middle class get them--I repeat, any and all tax cuts are good things. What you may be missing is that the government, which is nothing more than a group of individuals, has no right to steal from anyone, the rich or the middle class. If you don't have the right to hold a gun on your neighbor and take some part of what he has earned, either for yourself or to give it to someone who, in your opinion, is worse off than the guy you're robbing, neither does anyone else. I don't know if you have ever read Frederic Bastiat's excellent little book The Law, but if you haven't you should. Here is an excerpt from it which tells you how to identify "legal plunder" and why it is not right. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system. The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen. Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
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#7. To: christine, All (#4)
the cartoon is perfect and i enjoyed the anecdotal story. thanks for posting, JD.
Replies to Comment # 7. 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.
#10. To: LACUMO (#7)
#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.
#18. 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.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
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