Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Politics / Woods Tennessee GOP Establishment Embraces Tea Party Protesters
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Wamp: "By holding the line of taxes, at both the state and federal levels, we can help give small business people, entrepreneurs and working families a fighting chance in this tough economy. That's why I have introduced the 'American Working Families Tax Relief Act' that includes several common sense solutions for the challenges facing working families and small businesses in Tennessee. And that's why as Governor, I will oppose any attempt to pass a state income tax and will dig even deeper to identify and eliminate the waste and abuse of our tax dollars to help hold the line on any new taxes." Ramsey: "In Tennessee we balance our budget every year. We show that it can be done. And in 2007 - the year Republicans took control of the state Senate - we even cut the sales tax on food. Our friends in Washington could learn a lot from Tennessee." Blackburn: "The liberals' favorite day is tax day, April 15th. ... The election filing deadline is less than a year away and I need your help to be ready for the inevitable attacks. Please click here to send a $15 contribution on this April 15th tax day to my Blackburn for Congress re-election campaign. Then please help me by forwarding this e-mail to all your like-minded friends and family."
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Why do so many people hate taxes? I think living in a society is pretty awesome most of the time.
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I suggest all the people that are "Revolting" against socialism should make sure they return their library books and burn their card, bulid their own roads, never call the police or fire department, refuse public water and sewer works and make sure none of their ilk use public schools.
This is a silly notion. Our country is an alamalgam of many different political and financial systems... Get over it or move to a country that will somehow give you more freedom.
Ken, everything you mentioned are state funded programs, the revolt as I see it is against the Federal government trying to control what the states are doing.
"Our country is an alamalgam of many different political and financial systems... Get over it or move to a country that will somehow give you more freedom."
Like Somalia. ;)
I think Paul Krugman said it best in his last column: "Thus, President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre."
I guess Reagan was a Socialist too, no?
Ashley, we don't hate taxes, we hate waste, we hate redistribution of wealth, we hate intrusive government actions, we hate lack of accountability to any standard of law in government, we hate that we don't have a voice in Washington.
Ken, it is interesting that the examples you mention are all within the proper scope of government. We are opposed to paying for tattoo removal for gangsters. We are opposed to paying for abortions in China. We are opposed to paying able-bodied people to sit on their ass. The idea that we must move just because we don't agree with you is laughable. Your public school education didn't teach you much, apparently.
The top 50% of income earners pay 97% of federal income taxes collected.
They aren't getting 97% of federal government services in exchange for their money.
The bottom 50% are getting government services (and transfer payments) that they aren't paying for.
They should be required to start paying up for what they use and the government should stop overcharging the top 50% to finance handouts to those in the bottom 50%.
Fairness in paying for government provided goods and services is no different than fairness in paying for private sector goods and services - on a user fee basis.
"Ashley, we don't hate taxes, we hate waste, we hate redistribution of wealth, we hate intrusive government actions, we hate lack of accountability to any standard of law in government, we hate that we don't have a voice in Washington."
And the irony is that you probably support Republicans who are all that and more.
Ha, thanks for all those welfare checks too. I'm off to buy booze and trampy shoes. Being poor is awesome.
The Tennessee Republican Party leadership in an embarassment. Hell, right now Republican leadership in general is an embarassment.
Same old wingnut pablum from Wamp and Ramsey. They're against - everything. They're for - nothing.
Just Bush Republcians. Remember, Tennesseans, when you vote for governor that Wamp and Ramsey want to do for Tennessee what Bush did for the country.
Joe,
I can get behind many of the points you outlined, and with one in particular: we hate intrusive government actions .
I too hate intrusive government actions. Things like, oh, attempting to legislate religion, determining which two consenting adults can marry and which two can't, deciding that the government knows what's in the better interest of a woman than she and her physician do, and so forth.
I have voted Democrat in every major election since I was 18 even though I tend to side more with the traditional Republican ideals with regard to economy. Just today I had to write a fat check to the IRS and I don't mind saying I wasn't happy about it. But when all is said and done I would rather pay more money in taxes than have a bunch of holy rolling f*cktards in Washington tell me that I have to live by their "values" or else I'm an America-hating Socialist. Until the Republican party gets out of bed with conservative Christian movement I'll continue to vote Democrat, and I honestly don't care how much it costs me.
Wrong, Marsha B. - liberals favorite day is not April 15th. It's Jan. 20, 2009 - a day when our wish came true, and George W. Bush was tossed onto the scrap heap of history for good. My next favorite day will be the one that produces jail time for his deserving cohorts, like Karl Rove.
