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boxcar
02-05-2002, 11:54 AM
If you answered our income tax system, pat yourself on your back, and treat yourself to a nice lunch while you're at it. The following was taken from Neil Boortz's web site.

Boxcar

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FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY ……

Throughout my 33 years of talk radio I have been
consistently hesitant to call people or ideas
“communist” unless, of course, the people or ideas had already self-identified themselves as such. I adopted this tactic because I feared being lumped into that group of irrational and ignorant blowhards who scream “communism” when the local postal authorities tell them they can’t use their mailbox as a bun warmer.

Just because I’ve refrained from using the word
doesn’t mean the folks with communist ideas and
principles aren’t out there threatening our freedoms.

Those of you who have made any study of Karl Marx and his little pet political project will recognize his belief in “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” Though there is good evidence that Marx actually lifted this little ditty from the Torah, it has become recognized as perhaps the preeminent motto of Communism.

I bring this up today because it is becoming
increasingly clear that the international Communist movement needs to get one of their lawyer pals to hurry out there and either trademark their precious motto. If they don’t act fast “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs” is going to become the de-facto motto of the Democratic Party – quickly becoming known as the Social
Democratic Party.

First let’s deal with this “from each according to
their ability ..” part. If you know the current
reality of our so-called “progressive” income tax you will know that the income tax burden has been shifted almost entirely onto higher income earners. You have to make around $280,000 to be in the top one percent of income earners in the United States. If you are in this top one percent you and your other “one percenters” are earning between 18 and 19 percent of all personal income, but you are paying almost 39 percent of all personal income taxes! Similar disparities exist for the top 5 percent, the top 25 percent … even the top 50 percent. Time after time I have heard leftist (socialist) politicians excuse and
even praise this disparity on the sole basis that
“these people are earning a lot of money and they can afford to pay more.”

So – there you are. That the first part of the
Communist motto --- “From each according to their
ability…”

Now, what about the “ … to each according to their
needs” part? Unless you’ve been locked in a cave or vacationing in Kabul for the past 30 years you will readily note that politicians make a regular habit of excusing their various vote-buying programs based on the “need” of those receiving your tax dollars. For the latest example we need only listen to the words of failed Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore.

Gore was speaking to Tennessee Democrats in Nashville Saturday. It was the usual leftist, Democratic nonsense. Clinton did everything right, Bush is doing everything wrong. Gore even blamed the current recession on Bush, a rather neat trick considering the fact that the recession began under Clinton/Gore.

But .. here’s your Marx Moment. Gore said “We need a government that lives within its means, invests in the American people and supports tax cuts for the people who need tax cuts.”

First of all … Gore isn’t really talking about tax
“cuts” here. He’s talking about transfer payments --- money being transferred from those who earned it to those who did not. Only in America, and then only with the eager help of the leftist media, could the seizure of money from A for payment to B be called a “tax cut” when, in fact, B had no tax liability to begin with!

Having established, then, that what Gore is really
talking about is simply income redistribution … we get to the magic words --- “tax cuts (the seizure of property) for the people who need tax cuts (the
redistribution of property).” In other words … “to
each according to their need.”

It’s so obvious, folks. The Democrats have
appropriated the internationally recognized motto of Communism for their own use. The wordier version would be “We take the tax money from the people who have the ability to pay and give that money to the people who need it.” The most politically honest version would be “We take the tax money from the people who have the ability to pay, and who are the least likely to vote for us; and give it to the people who aren’t bright enough to earn that kind of money on their own, and who are the most likely to vote for us.”

Remember --- “He who robs Peter to pay Paul can
always count on the support of Paul.”

Tom
02-06-2002, 05:50 PM
I thought they were one in the same?
Did I miss something?

Tom :confused:

boxcar
02-06-2002, 06:22 PM
Dunno. Did you blink, Tom? :)

While it can be generally said that both parties represent a two-headed monster, there are a few differences between them. The more conservative Repubs, for example, have historically been for across-the-board tax cuts because they recognize what the real deal is (i.e. who is actually bearing the brunt of the tax burden); however, they score a big fat "F", generally, when it comes to explaining it to Americans in simple, easy-to-understand lingo, and in so doing allow the DemRats to get away with foisting their euphemisms upon the unsuspecting or non-thinking, i.e. "tax cuts for the poor".

Boxcar

Lefty
02-06-2002, 08:51 PM
You are right on Boxcar. I cringe when a Democrat says we don't want tax cuts because we don't want the deficits of the 80's. I keep waiting for a Republican to say that when Reagon cut taxes the I.R.S. coffers more than doubled! The spending caused the deficit not the tax cut. It's like telling your boss to please not give you a hundred dollar raise because your wife would just spend two hundred.
C'mon Republicans, get on the ball with the explanations.