Aw, poor baby, Obama gets called on the carpet for blurting out his agenda and Biden couldn’t spin it with advance warning. Could it be that he just assumed the MSM would give Obama another pass? He was taken completely off guard.
Oh, yes. His “socialist agenda”. You know what? I’m just going to assume that the right-wing is going to be completely incoherent and impermeable to fact or reason until well after Nov. 4th. You whole lot are like sheep to me for a while. Baah Baah Baah…greed good, compassion bad.
Your ridiculous insistence that the notion of basing tax policy on “fairness” is somehow intrinsically Marxist requires you to call Ronald Reagan a Marxist too.
See, for example, his 1985 document “The President’s tax proposals to the Congress for fairness, growth, and simplicity.”
Reagan’s speeches on the subject, such as this one, also clearly reflected the centrality of his concept of fairness to the structure of his tax policies:
No, he didn’t. And this kind of nonsense shows how “conservatives” have become completely untethered from reality. Reagan cut taxes his first year in office, and revenues dropped dramatically. Then Federal taxes were raised every single year of the Reagan administration, except for the last year, when there was no change in Federal tax policy.
I’m not saying this to bash Reagan. He had his pragmatic times, and around taxes he ultimately ended up looking at facts.
Here’s an opinion column from Bruce Bartlett (warning: NRO) which lists all the Reagan-era tax increases. Bartlett was a domestic policy advisor to Reagan and a treasury official in the first Bush administration.
You can’t grow an economy by peddling nonsense. I’m curious, how old are you? Because if you’re old enough to have lived through Reagan administration, what is your explanation for not remembering Reagan’s tax policy?
In other words, you’re completely uninterested in logical consistency when you use the label “Marxism”.
Reagan based his tax policy on the concept of fairness, and said so openly, so by your reasoning, that makes Reagan a Marxist.
But because Reagan’s tax policies happened to be ones you agree with, and Obama’s aren’t, you’ll call Obama a Marxist but not Reagan. Figures.
“And Alaska - we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs….” - Sarah Palin
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Well, as I asked before, if it’s not based on fairness, what is it based on?
I’m amazed you think your argument is worth making. I mean, I’m sure if you ask McCain if Obama’s plan is fair he’ll tell you no, it’s unfair. What does that make him? If it’s okay to reject a tax policy because it’s not fair, but it’s wrong to create one based on the same principles, something is not just not adding up.
Incidentally, she got the extra money by imposing a windfall profits tax on oil comanies (something that McCain/Palin now says is bad), so it definitely IS a tax on income.
I’m an independent who votes for candidates of both parties.
But the last couple of elections, I treat my Republican friends like inebriated drunks in the days before the election. Obama is a Muslim, John Kerry a coward. Ignorance is strength. (But we will always be at war with (west) Asia).
They’ll be much more civil and pleasant to be around when they wake up. And four years from now (eight if the Dems win), it will be a dirty lie that they EVER called Obama a socialist.