What Is “Our Fair Share?”
“The rich,” our president tells us, should be willing to pay “their fair share.” But he never tells us what a “fair share” is. Nor does he level with us about who he considers the ‘”Rich.” Oh, he goes on endlessly about “Millionaires and Billionaires,” all of whom should ante up, according to our class warfare waging chief executive. But there really aren’t enough of them to pay for all the spending the Obama Administration thinks necessary for ours to be a fundamentally fair society. So the so called rich end up being individuals making more than $200,000 and couples making in excess of $250,000 – not exactly. There will be some millionaires and billionaire in this group, but there will be a whole lot more ordinary folks, nurses and accountants; insurance agents and small businessmen. These are the people who are struggling to pay their mortgages, come up with tuition for their kids college education, and take a modest vacation once a year. They haven’t played golf 72 times over the last two years, their wives probably haven’t been on safari recently, or on an expensive vacation in Spain. The Obamas won’t be running into too many of this crowd on Martha’s Vineyard next month – because these “rich” folk can’t afford to do any of those things and continue to pay their fair share to the multiple governments now picking their pockets.
We are not an under-taxed people, we’re an over governed people. To pay for all our government, most of us are paying (in addition to federal income tax), state tax, sales tax, school tax, local tax. There are taxes built into almost everything we use – as businesses and corporations pass the taxes they pay on to us in higher prices. Not to mention the increase in the price of the goods and services we buy caused by the cost of complying with massive administrative regulations imposed by federal, state, and sometimes even city governments. We pay dearly for the leviathan government has become.
As if this wasn’t enough, when folks manage to work hard over the course of a lifetime, hoping to leave a legacy to their loved ones, that legacy is taxed again before being passed to the intended beneficiaries.
But that’s not enough for the insatiable appetite of government. Money, after all, is power. It enables politicians to reward friends and supporters, and to pay whole constituencies of supporters – their “base” voters.
The progressive tax code allows there to be net payers and net beneficiaries of the tax system. After all, according to the National Taxpayers Union, in 2008 the top 5% of income earners (those making over $158,600 per year) are paying close to 59% of all federal taxes.
Not fair enough for the president, though. He wants MORE from these rich folks – why some of them probably fly in corporate jets! Can you imagine that, what greedy, selfish scum to want to keep the rest of their money – they should pay their fair share.
The bottom 50% of wage earners paid only 2.7% of total income tax. Essentially this group pays almost nothing to the commonweal – they receive the benefits of a system for which others are paying.
This is a recipe for disaster – when close to half the population pays nothing to support the government, these people have no incentive to restrain federal spending. It’s not their money (literally), but they do receive the benefit of other people’s money. This group will continue to vote in the party that gives out the most goodies to them. The Democrat Party has stayed in business for a lot of years, and now holds the White House, because of the solid voting blocks of dependent populations. And it’s in the Democrat Party’s interest to keep that block dependent. Small wonder that inner city schools remain failure factories, and why poverty remains rampant among key democrat constituencies. The party of the poor has a vested interest in having lot of poor people to support them.
Mr. President, the rich are ALREADY paying their fair share – have been for years. You can play the envy card all you want – it may even work in your base (and in Hollywood, where they’re too stupid to realize that you’re picking their pockets empty too).
It’s the lower 50% that isn’t paying their “fair share.” EVERY American should be paying something – at least a tenth (tithe) of their income. If everyone paid taxes, then maybe our representatives would think twice before asking for more, and more, and more – to feed its insatiable appetite for spending
Obama: Our Trojan Horse?
Who is Obama?
An odd question to ask more than two years into his presidency. Even after electing this man to the highest office of the land, however, we know pitifully little about him. There are hints, though.
Hint 1: He’s a creature of the far left. No one with his connections to the radically anti-American preacher, Jeremiah Wright, and to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers could be anything but a far left ideologue himself.
Hint 2: He’s lazy. While in the Illinois Senate he voted “Present” more than he voted either for or against legislation before that body. As a US Senator, he spent most of his time running for the presidency rather than doing the job he had. As president he has distinguished himself most for his penchant for golf and for taking vacations – abdocatomg the work of the presidency to his allies in Congress.
Hint 3: He’s a demagogic. He doesn’t focus on issues and engage in public discourse and debate. Instead he will demagogue an issue – blaming “millionaires and billionaires” for the woes of society; claiming that serious budget reform will through grandma over the cliff and compromise the care of vulnerable children. Demagogues play to the emotions of the mob – they avoid serious, intellectual engagement.
Hint 4: He’s a big government ideologue. Despite knowing that his tax and spend policies are exacerbating the nation’s economic woes, he continues to want more of the same: higher taxes (on the “rich”), and more spending to stimulate the economy. What he really believes in is big government – government so large and all encompassing that it rules over more and more aspects of our life. Aspects such as what light bulbs we use, what foods we eat, what doctors we will have access to, how much of the money made by our own labors we will be allowed to keep.
Had we known even these few things about Obama in 2008, we might have a war hero in the White House today, rather than a community agitator. Where was the press, where were the media? Are they so far in the tank for the left and it’s fortunes that they have been rendered incapable of fairly reporting the facts that the people need to make wise choices in the voting booth?
This president and his cronies now systematically strip Americans of their resources and their freedoms. We should have known what was coming, but the voices trying to warn us were like so many Cassandras – speaking the truth only to be disbelieved.
In the case of the Cassandra of myth, the failure to listen to her warnings was dire to the fortune of Troy.
Is Obama OUR Trojan Horse? Will anyone listen to the voices that now warn us of the danger he poses to America and her liberty?
