Thread: Krauthammer blows up Obama and the FOLLY of "The Buffett Rule"

Buffet rule is simply a capitol gains tax, and more divisiveness on Obama's part. We need to scrap the entire tax code and implement a flat tax

Originally Posted by WatcherOfTheGate

You rarely if ever see a republican trying to cut military, SS, or medicare spending but they will (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) about taxes all day long. Meanwhile they backing the programs that are the true issue. They are pathetic.

Apparently you've never heard of Paul Ryan and his attempts to deal with the true drivers of our insolvency. Or maybe you don't remember what happened when George Bush suggested we reform Social Security by emulating the Chilean model (which has been very successful). The democrats had a real collective hissy fit over that and reform was never brought up again. Happy your tantrum killed this issue, leftists?
"Pathetic" is the word, allright, for someone who is so thoroughly uninformed.

Crying about something that doesn't really matter and ignoring the true issue just so they can be petty partisans. What a bunch of stupid (*)(*)(*)(*)s.

I know you love to portray yourself as a "real" non partisan conservative (which is obviously a lie) but speaking of crying over issues that don't really matter, like a rule that does next to nothing to pull us out of our hole when the rich already prop up income tax and nearly half of the income tax payers in this nation contribute nothing to our revenue gathering, constitutes real idiotic babble disguised as righteous indignation. You yourself (and your posts) are precisely what you whine about and you don't even seem aware of the irony.

Originally Posted by Never Left

Hummm, that sounds suspicially like "occupy" propaganda and "head up butt" economics to me.

Why do you believe what you claim to believe? Do you also believe the wealthy would forgo tax breaks large enough to drive a yacht through, merely to prosecute a War on Drugs?

Originally Posted by FearandLoathing

And therein you have the problem, or one of many, with the idea that you can tax your way out of a deficit. You spend your way into one, so the only way out is to....wait for it....stop spending!


wow. How hard was that?

Why can we still afford the entitlement spending of a War on Drugs, if it is that easy?

Originally Posted by Yosh Shmenge

The Obama-bots claim that the so called Buffet rule is meant to be part of a package of measures used to reduce out toxic debt problem. The thing is, however, that Obama and the Zombie left are fixated on this asinine crusade and have no intention of making any meaningful cuts in our budget. It's all an abusrd con game meant to divert attention from the hole that Obama has put us in. It's sick!

In my opinion, our elected representatives to federal government could be lowering our tax burden by investing in the general welfare with public policy schemes that generate a positive multiplier effect on our economy.

From my perspective, supply side economics should be supplying us with better governance at lower cost.

Originally Posted by Subdermal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...nDT_story.html

Excerpt:



Obama: Charlatan. Anyone who is fooled by his rhetoric is - himself - a fool.

These are the same people that say drilling in ANWR won't help. What a load of (*)(*)(*)(*).

Originally Posted by cupid dave

People who earn over a million dollars can be salaried or trading stocks, real estate, or other Capital Gains incomes.
Many could just move out of America and still get the money tax free.

Drivingthe rich people out will leave us poor people as the consumers who the corporations expect to sell products and services such as to employ people for that task.

These politicians who have no Economic Overview in a system where even the "experts" like Greenspan don't really understand what can happen when tax bases are changed are risking our future.

Would that really matter as much, if we had public policy choices that actually solved official poverty in our republic, instead of merely paying for a War on Poverty for a generation?

Originally Posted by sec

we have a spending problem, not a lack of tax problem

Why can our elected representatives still afford to have a War on Drugs and deny and disparage Intelligent Design theory, at the same time?

Originally Posted by webrockk

Nothing more than politics of begrudgement....

blatant pandering to give the dull-eyed drones a sense that Dear Leader will give them their pound of flesh ("punish" the "evil 1%")....
while delivering the magical and mythical "fairness" and "equality" fairy.

same old victim/oppressor dichotomy that authoritarian collectivists have trotted out since the beginning of time.

Shouldn't we expect our elected representatives to do a good job and solve our social dilemmas with the Peoples money instead of merely create more problems that need to be solved with the Peoples money?

No defense of the Buffett rule from a single leftist. Illuminating. Do you not have the courage of your Dear Leader's convictions, lefties?