Liar, Liar Leftists On Fire

Is anyone as weary as I am of hearing the constant crap from the Leftist Blowhards who say that the only tax increase should be on "the rich?"  In a nation that declares "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal" how is tax one "class" of people honoring those words so boldly stated in our Declaration of Independence?

And how is it these Leftists actually believe themselves when they say the so-called "tax cuts" (which are already in place thanks to President Bush in 2001 and 2003) are being held up because of Republicans?  This is blatantly false as there are 57 Democrats in the Senate, and 255 in the House.  Hello? They are the MAJORITY. I guess someone out there thinks some of us are really dumb.

Am I missing something here?


I'd say no.  In fact, on September 15th, 31 Democrats signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) suggesting to that the Bush tax cuts should not expire not expire:

View the complete letter HERE.

The Left will continue to lie to themselves.  The Right knows the truth.  Be armed with facts, and all they will be able to do is resort back to the name-calling.  Nothing new.

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Mourning Has Broken

November 2nd comes down to a simple choice:

Either we believe in America

or we don't.

The Tax Man Taketh As Much as He Can or More

The Heritage Foundation published the following article and graph just yesterday:

❝The Members of the U.S. House and Senate are about to engage in one of the most consequential tax policy debates of the past 50 years. At stake is the nation’s tax policy. For 14 years, Congress after Congress has voted to lighten the tax burden on taxpayers. The current Congress will decide later this fall whether to continue this successful policy and extend the tax relief laws currently in force or significantly raise personal income taxes.

Two developments have prompted this historic policy debate. On the one hand, tax laws passed in 2001 and 2003 under Congress’s peculiar budget rules means that key tax rates and tax credit or deduction provisions will revert to their higher, pre-2001 levels on January 1, 2011. Congress could, of course, extend these lower rates for a specific time or, preferably, permanently. 

 On the other hand, President Barack Obama has proposed several changes to tax law in his fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget that would hold tax levels constant for most married taxpayers with incomes below $250,000 and single taxpayers with incomes below $200,000, and raise taxes on those who earn more. Indeed, it is both the impending expiration of lower tax rates and the President’s and congressional leadership’s tax hike proposals that shape this coming debate.❞

The POTUS is not cutting taxes.  He's proposing that the 2001 & 2003 Tax Cuts be held, and he is propsing an implementation of raising taxes on anyone making more than the arbitrarily pulled $250,000 in income.

❝If Congress enacts the Obama tax hike, it will have changed the course of long-standing tax policy. With the exception of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), no Congress has voted to raise significant sums of new tax revenues since 1996. Indeed, the fundamental tax policy of this country until now has been to reduce tax burdens.

This policy has largely been driven by a bipartisan understanding that lower tax rates support stronger economic growth. Certainly, that view animated the debates over the 2001 and 2003 tax legislation, each of which resulted in lower, though temporary, tax rates and tax liabilities. While the jury is still out on the overall economic effects of Bush-era tax relief, these two changes to tax policy, particularly the 2003 legislation, likely boosted economic activity and strengthened the macro economy.

President Obama, however, has advanced a tax plan that reverses this tax policy. Rather than continuing the pattern of tax reduction and reform, the President and his supporters in Congress and elsewhere are calling for tax increases, primarily on upper-income taxpayers and businesses. Many of these individuals are small-business owners, the primary job creators in the country, whose income often fluctuates from year to year. These tax increases would add approximately $1.8 trillion to government revenues over the next 10 years, of which more than half ($970 billion) would come from upper-income taxpayers.  Enacting this tax plan would have serious, adverse consequences for economic activity, and sharply lower the rate of economic growth. This would frustrate the President’s effort to raise these new revenues.❞

How is punishing people who make money and hire other Americans anything other than unconscionable? Further more, who wants to give THIS GOVERNMENT 1.8 trillion dollars?  Who trusts them to do the right thing with it?  In the meantime, 45% of Americans pay NO income tax, and this number is growing.

Inequitably raising taxes on a class of people is wrong, immoral, and outright UNAMERICAN.

Read through the graphs completely to the end for the Economic impact by state, or visit Heritage.org for tons of info.

Jobs Lost by Congressional District (click on image to enlarge):

Impact of Obama Tax Hikes, state by state

> Alabama	> Montana
> Alaska	> Nebraska
> Arizona	> Nevada
> Arkansas	> New Hampshire
> California	> New Jersey
> Colorado	> New Mexico
> Connecticut	> New York
> Delaware	> North Carolina
> D.C.	> North Dakota
> Florida	> Ohio
> Georgia	> Oklahoma
> Hawaii	> Oregon
> Idaho	> Pennsylvania
> Illinois	> Rhode Island
> Indiana	> South Carolina
> Iowa	> South Dakota
> Kansas	> Tennessee
> Kentucky	> Texas
> Louisiana	> Utah
> Maine	> Vermont
> Maryland	> Virginia
> Massachusetts	> Washington
> Michigan	> West Virginia
> Minnesota	> Wisconsin
> Mississippi	> Wyoming
> Missouri

The Tax Man Taketh

USA Today's interactive
tax increase calculator

USA Today had an interesting post today about what happens if/when the Bush tax cuts expire. They have this interactive bubble chart (left) that you can mouse around on to get examples of how much more or less wage earners will be affected after the Bush tax cuts expire and/or the Obama* "tax cuts" go into place. What the examples didn't show though is who the tax cuts would hurt the most. 

Though there is a link later in the article that takes you to the website where you can input your own numbers, the mouse-over bubble image is really a disservice. How the expired tax cuts will affect the lowest wage earners never gets enough media time - and this is who need the tax cuts the most.

Obviously everyone's taxes will go up on 01.01.2011 at 12:01am. But to demonstrate how I entered my own example data.  A married couple with three children under the age of 17 with no deductions to speak of (other than the kids) making a combined  income of $32,000.  When the tax cuts expire for this financially challenged family, the total tax liability for this financially struggling family would be $4,563 higher. 



And, interestingly enough, AFTER Obama's tax proposal? Tax liability difference? $0.00. In other words, the total tax liability for this financially struggling family would be $4,563 higher.

Which means what? More Americans who have to depend on THE GOVERNMENT for help?

Gee, you'd think that this is almost by design. 

Try it out for yourself.

TRACKER: Where are your tax dollars?

TAX CALCULATOR: See how you would be affected

*Note! Obama is not making tax cuts.  He's merely proposing a tax change, allegedly aimed at the middle-class.





No  matter how anyone calculates any of it, the federal income tax, or better stated as the money they take from hard-working Americans' wages, is tantamount to SLAVERY.

Bonus Link: Is the Federal Income Tax Constitutional?

Oh, and here's even more good news:

MORE ON THIS IN MY NEXT POST

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This is HILARIOUS!

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For a Short While, the Whole World was American

(last in a week-long series)

There are countless heroes still among us who helped so many people on September 11 and the days following. Some of them are known, many are not. I'm sure they'd all trade the tragedy for any kind of notoriety for their help. A special thank you @Jikiri for sharing some memories with me of all the good that happened during the experience; and a special thanks to @cnin whom I know to have been an NYPD officer serving at that time.


We should all remember what we're living for.


In total 3,497 people died in the attacks on 11 September 2001. 

• 2,735 civilians in the World Trade Center died 
• 87 passengers and crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North Tower
• 60 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 175 that hit the South Tower
• 343 New York City firefighters and rescue workers and 23 New York City law enforcement officers, 47 Port Authority workers* and 37 Port Authority Police Officers, lost their lives when they rushed in to save the victims in the World Trade Center
• 36 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93, who gave their lives stopping four hijackers over Pennsylvania 
• 64 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon, killing them and 125 people in the building. 

*I could not find a list of the victims' names

In addition, 19 cowards - the terrorists who hijacked four airliners and murdered 3,497 people - also died. 
An American tragedy, an attack on the world:

Country Total fatalities  Argentina 4 [34]  Australia 11  Bangladesh 6  Belarus 1 [35]  Belgium 1  Brazil 3 [36]  Canada 24 [37][38]  Chile 2  China 4  Côte d'Ivoire 1  Colombia 17  Democratic Republic of the Congo 2  Dominican Republic 1  El Salvador 2  Ecuador 3  France 3  Germany 11  Ghana 2  Guyana 3  Haiti 2  Honduras 1  India 41 [39]  Indonesia 1  Ireland 6 [40]  Israel 5 [41]  Italy 10 [42]  Jamaica 16  Japan 24 [43]

Country Total fatalities  Jordan 2 [44][45][46]  Lebanon 3  Lithuania 1  Malaysia 3  Mexico 16  Moldova 1  Netherlands 1  New Zealand 2  Nigeria 1  Peru 5  Philippines 16  Portugal 5 [47]  Poland 1  Romania 3  Russia 1  South Africa 2  South Korea 28  Spain 1  Sweden 1  Switzerland 2  Republic of China (Taiwan) 1  Ukraine 1  Uzbekistan 1  United Kingdom 66* [48][49]  Bermuda 1  Venezuela 1 (Source: Wikipedia: Casualties of Sept. 11)

More sobering numbers can be found HERE.

Part of the Proposed NYC Memorial

the Pentagon Memorial

       Shanksville, Pennsylvania is slow to achieve the goal of a fitting Memorial

A lovely ODE to America, read it here.

New York Times September 11: Port

raits of Grief

Project 2,996

9-11 Heroes

9-11 Mem0rial

Biography.com/911