Comments on: From The Department Of Completely Predictable Consequences

By: JoeG

JoeG — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:07:56 +0000

Sounds like taxation without representation to me.

Several Oregon cities have enacted an income tax. The state courts ruled that you can’t tax non-residents because its outside the authority of local governments to do so. But not so with the state legislature.

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:12:15 +0000

I think y’all better move on down here to Texas quick as you can, where state income tax is unconstitutional. Before Bambi closes the borders.

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:11:20 +0000

Can you say “mark of the Beast”? I knew that you could!

By: Leopard1996

Leopard1996 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:38:29 +0000

By: peg_c

peg_c — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:30:18 +0000

(being able to move from state to state) must be a huge drag to the statists. They’re probably working on a fix for that right now.

By: itdiehard

itdiehard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:02:08 +0000

nt…

By: grinlap

grinlap — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:21:52 +0000

“the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”.

By: UpLateAgain

UpLateAgain — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:19:53 +0000

The problem is the money has to come from somewhere. Somebody has to produce the largess for the mooks to redistribute. The system isn’t closed, with a limited amount of goody to go around. Wealth is both created and destroyed. The theoretical idea behind a stimulus package is that it jump starts the producers of that largess. but if you are by-passing the producers and going straight to redistribution, at some point the cash flow stops.

Obama and company of course know this (and I mean Obama and the entourage he brought it. Congress, for the most part, is clueless and just playing party politics). Once the cash runs out, then it is no longer a matter of redistributing wealth, it becomes a matter of providing subsistence. ( We’re now into our, what, third extension of jobless benefits?)

This government has been doing everything it can to destroy wealth short of putting a gun to the ribs of those people that still have jobs and telling them to not go to work. None of this is accidental or incompetent. It is deliberate, organized, well thought out, and being passionately pursued.

By: Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:52:09 +0000

I think the idea of giving $ the states become dependent on is like giving them heroin. The plan will be to make it politically impossible to resist giving them more.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:55 +0000

to try to force Washington to levy an income tax.

By: bs

bs — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:36:28 +0000

he might return.

By: Darin_H

Darin_H — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:33:01 +0000

unlike the other names, I do believe that BR was hit with the blam stick.

By: janis

janis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:32:53 +0000

one of that other guy.

By: Darin_H

Darin_H — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:31:35 +0000

I figured y’all were talking about pliny and flyerhawk on the other thread, that I would make it complete

By: janis

janis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:30:41 +0000

to invoke the name of some demon, even accidentally, for fear that they will show up and wreak havoc? Same thing with that name you mentioned here.

By: Achance

Achance — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:29:59 +0000

By: Darin_H

Darin_H — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:24:34 +0000

Well, we know that NY is on the wrong side of the Laffer curve.

By: itdiehard

itdiehard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:23:47 +0000

They raised the tax on millionaires and now there are fewer millionaires in Maryland… Maryland will eventual run out of the rich to TAX…

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:21 +0000

…..redistribution.

I have a friend who is a liberal jew. Loves Obama, we get into heated arguments over the economy and Obama policies. Of course he thinks the stimulus is doing wonders and that ObamaCare is the salvation. So he calls me and is driving to Odessa, Texas to produce a video for Odessa on “economic development”. I will let you know how that goes. Odessa is as red as it gets. My friend better bite his lip when they start bashing Obama and the “stimulus”……

Should be an interesting mix. Next time my buddy might send me out to the RED territories instead?

By: UpLateAgain

UpLateAgain — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:06:27 +0000

accomplishing its intent, and as time goes by it will become ever more effective.

Unfortunately for us, that intent is not to ramp UP the economy, but rather to ramp it DOWN.

You can’t get ‘social justice’ to take off when an economy is vibrant. People just don’t see a need for it.

The whole idea of a bunch of ‘haves’ and a few ‘have-nots’ is unfair, unfair, unfair. We need EQUAL misery for all…. or, er ….. as it actually works out, a bunch of ‘have-nots’ with just a few ‘haves’.