March 29, 2007
Meet the patsy
Here's a guy who is only too happy to be the shnook who gets to pay for the state Democrats' fiscally irresponsible budget.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 29, 2007
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1. Apparently this guy has never realized that when tax rates fall, revenues to the government increase. What a pity.
Iceland Joins the Flat Tax Club
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb_0207-43.pdf
excerpt:
"Iceland's most dramatic reforms are in corporate taxation. The corporate income tax rate is 18 percent, which is among the lowest in the industrial world. The corporate tax rate has been cut steadily from 50 percent in the late 1980s, to 33 percent by the mid-1990s, and to just 18 percent by 2002. The rate cuts have created a powerful increase in investment incentives and boosted economic growth. Rather than creating a revenue loss for the government, Iceland's corporate tax cuts have coincided with rapidly rising corporate tax revenues."
2. There is a real disconnect between the types that gravitate to the two main political parties. Believe me, I hate sterotypes, but bear with me. Every person has their favorite type of pork funding, mine is the arts. I love the symphony, ballet, opera, and theater. Let's use the typical arts organization as an example. Most are populated and run by those who share Mr. Large's basic secular progressive idealogy. Most run a deficit. Many would argue that that is due to the nature of the artisitc endeavor. I would argue differently. Having served on the board of a local theater company, I would argue that in many secular progressive circles there is a real distrust of business, except when soliciting donations, and a lack of understanding of economic principles. Many arts organizations give short shrift to the revenue generating side of their operations and consider them a necessary evil, but really don't want to spend the time and effort to generate revenue, because it is some how dirty. Many secular progressives will point to the socialism of Europe and really want to model that system here. What they don't want to discuss is the very real structural economic problems and economic stagnation in a country like France. We need to grow up as society and realize that we can't eat all the candy we want.
3. I just bet this guy sends 2% of the value of his vehicles to the government of this state every year even though he doesn't have to.
Well, maybe he doesn't.
4. I bet this guy makes sure he gets every penny's worth at the grocery store, out of the gas pump, from the lawn service (unless he's a multi-unit "cave dweller", which is highly likely), and on top of that, thinks he's
underpaid.
What do loony liberals care about high taxes? They're excellent at reducing their own tax burden, and passing the increased burden on to everybody else.
Demonrat motto: "We've got what it takes to take what you've got"
5. If this guy likes taxes soooo much he is more than welcome to pay mine.
6. Taxes are the Libs' way of having others do the heavy lifting when it come to taking care of society's ills.
7. And of course he had to add the liberal mantra about the poor being punished by taxes. I'm sure he'd have an argument about the following - or claim it's a lie conceived by Karl Rove et al:
"In 2004, the quintile of households with the lowest income received roughly $8.21 in total government spending for each dollar of taxes paid. Middle-income households got $1.30 per tax dollar, while the highest-earning took in just 41 cents.
The ratio of taxes paid to services received is most stark at the federal level. Those in the lowest quintile received $14.76 in federal spending for every dollar they paid in federal taxes; for middle earners, it was $1.29; top earners, just 32 cents.
In total-dollar terms, low-income families netted over $31,000 each from government taxes and spending, while high-income households lost roughly $48,000."
8. Jerry Large is acting out of self interest; asking to pay more hits me and you guys a lot more than Jerry;
90% of his writing is on Afr Amer only stuff; so be thankful he strayed into the main for a while
9. So Jerry Large LIKES paying taxes. Good for him. I'm pretty sure my family is putting more into the state's coffers than he is, (which is probably why he doesn't mind taxes) so I invite him to pay ours. Because we're holding up this state and providing good jobs for people, and all these state officials can do is raise taxes even more. No thank you.
In fact, Jerry, I challenge you to send additional money beyond what you normally owe. PROVE to us that you really like paying taxes.
10. I have heard this same song and dance from the resident leftist at my place of employment. Funny thing is this guy drives to Portland to pick up major purchases he shopped the internet for and then has had shipped to his friend's home in Portland, isn't it. These guys are so full of crap it runneth over.
11. Actually if you want to get a real clear picture of secular progressives, or leftists, or liberals get and read a copy of Who Really Cares. These people are all mouth.
12. Wouldn't it be nice to someday pick up a Times or P-I and not read a leftist column or editorial? They have both become sooooo predictable! How boring.
13. This column reminds me of a bumpersticker I saw while visiting in Texas last week: Republicans think every day is July 4th; Democrats think every day is April 15th!
14. This guy is living proof you don't even have to have a measurable IQ to be a writer for the MSM.
15. Odd that Mr. Large, who says he dislikes initiatives, especially ones dealing with taxes, has no apparent trouble with initiatives that raise taxes, like I-884. Where were you on that tax initiative, Mr. Large?
16. I laughed when I first read this article. Then I realized that April 1st is still two days away...
17. rates current mortgage 30