It will all be programmed into our recently implanted ‘inter-active response’ GPS-based microchip explained to us when we are shackled to our seats meet for the first indoctrination economics class at the main Southern FEMA Camp that doesn’t exist branch of The Department Of Social Justice’s Education’s Transforming The United States facility.

Back in the 90s, IIRC, I heard him talking about how he’d rather see gov’t expenditures go toward things like Section 8 housing, as opposed to being “spent” on middle class subsidies like the mortgage interest deduction.

It’s a fundamental disease that seems to afflict many career Washingtonians.

Money that I earn by my labor, or by my wits, is my money. That portion which the tax code does not confiscate is not a tax subsidy.

It’s our money. It’s our government. Any elected official that has a tough time with that concept deserves a one way ticket home. And he can pay for his own damn ticket.

Didn’t you know that if you have to take a pay cut, you mortgage goes up?? Next time ask her the opposite and get that logic out there – if taxes are raised, does that count as a cut in spending?

The Democrats have used this for a long time anyways, they always talk about how tax cuts ‘cost’ too much. Just another thing that the Bush Admin got beat up for without defending themselves and the truth.

bracelet?
You know, the “What Would Mao Do” one.

If tax cuts are spending, then tax increases would be saving? WOW, That makes no sense at all. That is like saying Mexico should dictate our Immigration laws, or NASA should start an outreach program to Muslims.

is that the Bush Tax Cuts are to blame for the deficit. This is being pushed on all the lefty blogs with charts and convoluted explanations.

What would you expect to get from someone who looks to Chairman Mao for inspiration? Your money IS the government’s money in all Marxist systems. In fact, you don’t own anything at all.

Opportunity Cost 1. The cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action. Put another way, the benefits you could have received by taking an alternative action.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/opportunity+cost

By giving the American people tax cuts, the government has that much less of our money to spend. Oh wait, they will anyway see (deficit)

When the IRS and other gov’t agencies report the money we are allowed to keep as a “revenue loss” because they failed to confiscate it, well, there isn’t a whole lot of respect for our property on display. She’s just crossed the Rubicon on taxes by saying out loud what the democrat tax increasers all believe. It all belongs to them by right. Once we’re completely socialized they can make it true, the gov’t will write us our paychecks and give us our fair portion of their money that we’ve earned.

pure unadulterated fascist doublespeak…. it is the bellwether of where the left would take us and in my opinion time one cannot reason with the unreasonable only mock them and ridicule and resist…

Heading off to a funeral, have a nice day red state.

Erick lost for words?

Anyone that has been paying attention knows Anita Dunn is a full blood Communist. Glenn Beck exposed her last year and she was swept and hidden under the carpet just like Van Jones.

In her mind…
It’s the governments money… they allow us to keep what they decide.
We don’t own property… we are just the temporary caretakers.
We all work for the state.

This is why the entire country has to wake up and get these people out of power as soon as possible. Our freedom is at stake.

If he was in your place Erick… General George S. Patton would have pulled a pearl handled Colt and shot her dead in the forehead.

The blood of tyrants… the tree of liberty.

believe property is theft.

Whatever money you have was obtained illegitimately by stealing it from poor people, hence gummint’s job is to take it back from you & give back to poor people.

well, unless you’re a commie like Anita or Obama. then you get to make & keep a lot of money because you did not steal it from the poor but made it legitimately by “serving the people.”

etc.

The GOP trying to get their point across to the electorate that they proposed unspent stimulus and the Democrats voted against it… They are using this issue as a political football deliberately.

I am 50, live in MI, and am collecting unemployment for the first time in my life. It has been a God send, but never was supposed to last forever. There are some pretty scared people in this state who have done everything correctly in their lives and are now at the mercy of that damn check. Anita Dunn and her party are complete idiots. It is unfortunate that many Americans do not pay attention to politics whatsoever, which is their choice, but the GOP had better shit or get off the pot and get their message across……..They make me angrier than the left because they never bother to explain themselves

Maybe she meant tax credits? You pay back in taxes, and government promises to give you a tax credit, which can be technically called a form of spending, since tax credits have to come from somewhere.

On the other hands, tax cuts are not a form of spending, it merely means you pay less in taxes, nothing more or less.

and his Enlightened Vision of the Brave New World he is attempting to build for YOU?

This has been the Democrat theme ever since Tom Daschle rose to prominence in the Senate.

But it also gives us a splendid opportunity. They are going back to the Keynesian model employed by FDR: To restore economic health governments must spend Spend SPEND!

So, if Spending is the key and if Tax Cuts are Spending, why not go ALL IN and cut taxes TO THE BONE.

You nailed it with the Democrats believing it all actually belongs to the government. What you did not express is that today’s Democrats are necessarily dim. Well, maybe not all; some are just willfully ignorant actors.

the same tactic in a debate with Paul Ryan on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning and Ryan, apparently having watched your encounter with Ms. Dunn, was ready for it. He zinged her with the idea of keeping the Bush Spending Program in place rather than eliminating it and extending it to those in lower tax brackets as well rather than, in effect, subsidizing unemployment.

Fun stuff to watch.

She accidentally told the truth. But nobody should be surprised. OF COURSE they believe it’s all their money, whatever you have is due only to the government’s generosity anyway.

This is why leftists, statists, and liberals need to be utterly banished from any form of power. But it sure helps when they come right out and say what they truly believe.

or “estate tax” as Dems like to misrepresent it. Somehow, taxes are owed on money that you have already paid taxes on your whole life. Dems just come and take it because you’re dead and can’t say squat about it.

Imagine Pelosi showing up at your loved one’s funeral and rummaging through the pockets of the corpse. Dont’ forget the gold in his teeth Nancy. Did you bring your pliers? Good girl.

This is should be part of all Conservative’s messages: The Democrats (liberals) believe all wealth, all money, is the Government’s and what you get to keep is decided by them (those elected officials on high) as their gift to you for being a good citizen. As examples to support this claim use this interview, “revenue loss”, etc. etc. etc.

Bush’s tax cuts ended the Clinton (remember the dot-com collapse?)-9/11 recession and raised revenues (while Obama’s are off 11%);

Bush had years of 4.36% unemployment (Obama has officially 9.5% but my state–nJ– is 10% and my county is 12%, MI is 12%, and 4 counties in CA are 22%);

Bush had a DOW of 15000 (Obama has an unstable 10000, meaning retirees and investors have LOST 1/3 or more of their investments and futures);

Bush had a deficit of $161 billion in 2006-WSJ (and Obama has a $trillion and has already increased the debt by $4 trillion with no end in sight);

Bush created 4 million private sector jobs (Obama has lost 8.8 million and created 750,000 PUBLIC jobs that are tax-draining and nonproductive toward GNP);

Bush tried throughout 2005 to generate interest in restructuring Social Security and barely received MSM mention of his campaign or any speech he made. Soc. Sec. has been added to general revenues since 1968 when Pres. Johnson and a Dem. Congress ended the “lockbox.” SS is now $39 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Bush did not waste DOJ time suing sovereign states, gutting the economies of several states by business moratoriums, and never chose reverse racism (the New Black Panthers v registered voters) as an administration policy.

My political memories only go back to Carter and Reagan (thankfully more Reagan than Carter) and that was a Democrat meme even back then, as several posters above have already noted.

If you are willing for a moment to suspend your established set of beliefs, and work only from a hypothesis and logical connections I can attempt to explain their non-Euclidean premise. The hypothesis is the government is the full embodiment of the will of the American people. Therefore whatever is the will of the government is the best expression of the will of the American people. Any reduction in the ability of government to engage in a particular policy is therefore against the will of the American people. Most government policy is implemented by spending money. Government spending is funded by tax collections. Therefore any reduction in government tax collection (eg tax cuts, mortgage deductions) is by the chain connection a reduction in the ability of the American people to implement their will.

Now, you and I with our established value system in place will immediately identify the problem with the government = will of the people bit, but many of them do really truly believe it. This is the difference we conservatives must paint in bold colors before our fellow citizens.

And from now on, I hope you will be able to answer them on this fundamental issue, no matter how they vary the fabric which covers the frame of their argument.

In the current environment, raising or cutting taxes is irrelevant. As long as the Govenment is spending money regardless of tax revenue, they are spending our money. It will have to be paid back. So, she is actually correct! Ouch, my head and wallet hurt!

Is it possible that she was referring to the fact that a tax cut would increase the deficit in the same way that spending would increase the deficit?

I don’t think the two are equivalent – that doesn’t make any sense. I personally would like to see the deficit (and debt) dramatically reduced and tax revenue is part of the equation.

You should feel greatful when they let you keep some of it.

“If 5% appears too small…be happy I don’t take it all.” – Harrison/McCartney/Lennon.

Then I am going to pick tax cuts, because at least that way I get to spend my money myself and it is not spent for me by some pandering politician or idiot bureaucrat.

Then I am going to pick tax cuts, because at least that way I get to spend my money myself and it is not spent for me by some pandering politician or idiot bureaucrat.

if he had such mindless, unquestioning disciples of him and Corpoism in the press when his dictatorship was born.

A member of the lowest (middle?) feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights.
An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in 18th- and 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe.
A person in bondage or servitude.

I think the way the Left is working at this moment is to return to the way things use to be (and still are) in several parts of the world.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

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Erik – it is quite simple. The Left views all money in the economy as rightfully theirs, so anything our central govt “gives” you – ala a “tax cut” – is money given out. aka – an expense of govt. Quite twisted and illogical but I am often shocked by the basic misunderstanding by those on the left re money, finances and economics.