But we’re still in this wrestling match with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell about the last 2 to 3 percent, where ...we’d be giving them on average $100,000 for people making $1 million or more.
--Barack Obama on extending Bush tax cuts to Americans in upper income brackets.
NO Mr. President “we” meaning the government wouldn’t be giving those people anything.
Obama crystallized the central economic fallacy in progressive rhetoric. A tax cut isn’t a handout to the wealthy. A tax cut is the government prohibiting itself from taking more from what these people already earned. It wasn’t the government’s money to give—to anyone—in the first place.
As Rick Moran noted on the difference between tax cuts and entitlements:
To not see how that concept turns the idea of freedom on its head reveals a moral blindness that makes it easy to posit that all property is subject to government approval and control. It justifies eminent domain and host of other egregious threats to human liberty that used to be a concern of liberals but is now seen as an impediment to government management of most every facet of people’s lives.
The anti-growth/anti-property rights crowd in Queen Anne’s County has turned the idea of property rights on it’s head and seeks—and has sought—to make our property rights subject to government approval.
If the words liberty and property rights do indeed mean something to you, then choice today and in November couldn’t be clearer.
the mob takes from those less numerous without care of moral or ethical rights. Almost all those anti-growth financiers in QAC are guys who either developed their land already (Sears, Simmons, Altman), or who bilked the taxpayers out of millions by selling thier rights to the government. In any event, rich guys who got richer on taxpayers backs,now want to stop anyone else from bilking the system like they did
ReplyDeleteGosh darn!! I bet that fancy ole lobbiest though we we're a bunch of dumb hicks. Oh, and what about that Storm guy. Are we gonna make sure he gets Mr. "Holy than thou" has to play by the same rules. And how about all that lead paint floating around Centreville and those non-exsistent permits. I think he owes the county some bucks.The FEDS are gonna love him.
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