tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post6169284122734815979..comments2024-03-01T03:51:38.081-05:00Comments on Allergic to Bull: If It’ll Save One Life...A.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10876021589516844048noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-69869978906855747252013-01-26T10:33:37.304-05:002013-01-26T10:33:37.304-05:00While there are good arguments on both sides, what...While there are good arguments on both sides, what bothers me is that AK 47advocates have no doubts whatsoever. They may in the end be correct, I think it's reasonable to limit automatic weapons, but I see both sides. <br /><br />To claim Obama is some evil person, just fits in to the hate rhetoric that now fills the country.<br /><br />Going back in history, the only thing close to this is pre - Civil War South. If you read those newspapers, and Southern books and speeches at the time, it's much like now. The hate is stunning.<br /><br />Only, in the South, the government controlled what newspapers could say. The anti -incendiary laws, enacted by every slave state, made it a crime, punishable by whipping, to write, say or preach anything that would "dissatisfy" a slave. Hilarious that they were supposedly worried about making a slave unhappy.<br /><br />But because of the growing fear of slave rebellion, any open discussion against slavery, or even preaching anything against it, owning a book that even questioned it, was against the law. While these laws against free speech came from a legit concern over slave rebellion, it was clear that either free speech had to go, or slavery had to go. So the Southern states decided free speech had to go.<br /><br />The resulting hate spewed forth - not against the oppression of free speech, but against anyone who dared speak against slavery. They were the devil, evil, Lincoln was trying to force the women to "be" with black men, even walk down the street with black men.<br /><br />Seekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10206503506011763393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-42618565448060099372013-01-26T10:26:13.225-05:002013-01-26T10:26:13.225-05:00If you claim you are against bullshit politics, pl...If you claim you are against bullshit politics, please do a story on the bullshit fraud which fooled me for a while, and still fools many Conservatives (I am not a conservative).<br /><br />I admire your tenacity, but let's see if you have the balls you claim, expose this bullshit. Conservative pundits on FOX pushed it for a while, Mike Huckabee ran for President on it, Neal Boortz was hired to push it.<br /><br />But it's a fraud, not flawed, I mean it's literally a fraud.<br /><br />http://fairtaxgoofy.blogspot.com/<br /><br />I admit Fairtax sounded great, and if it was just half as amazing as Boortz claimed, what are we waiting for? We need an entirely new tax code, that is true. I have been preaching that for 30 years. Our tax code is horrible, unfixable. It can not be fixed, it must be replaced.<br /><br />I never dreamed Boortz was getting paid to hawk a deliberate fraud. He seemed so sincere. If Fairtax was a fraud, surely Boortz would not only spot it, but he had the balls to expose it. Nothing scares Boortz right?<br /><br />Turns out, the fine print in Fairtax scares Boortz. In fact if you ask him about it, he will block you from his twitter account, and before he left radio, he would not accept your call.<br /><br />Neal might have been fooled by Fairtax at first -- it does sound great -- but it's clear after a time, he learned the fine print tricks that make Fairtax a goofy absurdity,. <br /><br />Most of Fairtax revenue is not from personal retail sales. Boortz and Fairtax.org sell it as a personal consumption tax. And it is, they have personal retail sales tax. <br /><br />But in that fine print are other taxes -- and the other taxes are much much larger than the retail sales tax. It's not that Fairtax has a few other taxes, Fairtax is a massive tax on city county and states, on all their operating expenditures, even capital invesments. Wages, pensions and benefits, paid by city county and states, are taxed 23%. No, the employee does not pay those, the employer -- the city county or state -- has to.<br /><br />If your state has 2 billion dollars in "expenditures" on prisons, for example, including wages, pensions, construction, food, utlities, etc, your state would have to pay -- separately - the fed gov 430 million tax. No, I am not wrong. It's not only in the fine print, but Fairtax spokesmen defend it,. And, President Bush Tax Advisory Panel exposed this absurdity.Seekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10206503506011763393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-37934757089477523392013-01-21T08:00:49.174-05:002013-01-21T08:00:49.174-05:00Van Harvey, a friend of mine, has a succintly diff...Van Harvey, a friend of mine, has a succintly different take on Jay Carney's reprehensible comment abt "saving one life". I hope you won't mind my linking <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2013/01/jay-carneys-vicious-blood-thirsty.html" rel="nofollow">to him.</a>Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.com