Please don’t take “The Democrats want to tax your taxes” literally.
No. Seriously. Some people have such a morbid case of Demotaxophobia that they will believe any sentence that starts with “The Democrats want to tax your…” Try it some time. When you’re at a party with some conservative friends, fill in any word to complete the sentence, and I guarantee at least one of them will guffaw and say something like “ain’t that the truth?”
No, actually it isn’t.
Today Mccain and Barack Obama both touted their plans for fixing the economy. Obama plans to raise taxes on the top 3 percent of the country and cut taxes for the middle class. Mccain plans to cut taxes for everyone across the board and cry wretched, gruesome, bloody murder when anyone so much as mentions the word tax increase.
You’d think that some people have been living in a tiny, purple, plastic bubble country their entire lives where nobody has to pay taxes and pretty glowing trust-fund fairies with miniature wands foot the bill for everything.
Have you not heard the phrase that there are only two inevitabilities in this life: death and taxes?
Can you not take that to heart and quit whining about it like the rest of us did after our 3rd paycheckfrom Mcdonalds? For a group of people that preaches so much about personal responsibility, fiscal conservatives sure act like a bunch of spoiled brats any time you bring up tax hikes.
Obama’s plan has its faults, but Mccain’s is a numerical impossibility. Paying for the war in Iraq is not getting any cheaper, and promising to balance the budget, cut taxes, and continue a ludicrously expensive war makes even the fairy bubble world look plausible by comparison.
Lesson number one of economics: if you want a good or service, you have to PAY for it. Civilization costs money. I suggest you get used to it.
July 8, 2008 at 4:28 pm
http://www.marketingvox.com/british-lawmakers-levy-for-ipod-tax-038085/
http://www.marketingvox.com/states-push-for-tax-on-digital-downloads-038066/
I just wanted to show you what I was talking about the other day.
July 8, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Absurd, I must admit. Those state deficits could easily be wiped out by better budget management.
July 8, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Or better yet, progressive tax policies that aren’t beholden to the whims of the underworld creatures that run the music industry.
July 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Right, there are a lot of politics that come into play here.
#1. The music industry has to readjust the way they do business because they were lazy and money hungry all these years and didn’t adapt to the digital age. By never lowering CD and DVD prices, the entertainment industry has put themselves where they are today, between a rock and a hard place. To me I think this is great because the artists now have to rely on tours and merchandise for their income, which really, they should work a little harder like the rest of us if they are earning that kind of cash I don’t think it is asking to much to actually reach out to their audience with a concert here and there.
#2. When it comes to local, state or federal government, our political leaders are the worst when it comes to spending. I know I beat the dead horse with this but their Pork spending is out of control and the only way to fix the problems that they set on us is to find new things to tax us on so they can continue to abuse their spending powers. It is absolutely ridiculous. I am not saying that republicans are innocent by any means, what I am saying though is that when it comes to placing taxes or raising them the main culprit is USUALLY the democrat party. We need to completely clean out all of these politicians, place them with term limits and get some fresh blood in there that knows these spending problems on both sides of the aisle.