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Michael G

I like it. I've never been able to understand why the American voter so consistently votes against his/her own interests. I fail to understand why money earned through honest toil should be taxable while found money is not. I also wonder where the Dems went. They've been absent from the scene for some years now.

Shakespeare's Sister

Brilliant. As always.

(Not the references to me - everything else.)

:)

harry near indy

money is the root of everyday evil -- your john doe and jane roe.

i don't mean mass murderes like nazis and communists or serial killers -- those are large/grotesque evils, started by psychopaths and unthinkable by the self-samed john doe and jane roe.

i've seen people squabble over it, lust for it, scheme for it, hate people who have it, hate people who don't have it. it's disgusting.

i've also heard stories from my father, who worked at a small bank for 40-plus years before he retired. he was a trust officer during the last 7 years of employment, and the stories he told me about how people almost start swinging in his office ...

i don't want to write about this any more. thinking of it makes me feel disgusted at my "fellow" man -- and woman, too.

Linkmeister

As I watch the IRS directly debit my account for the amount I owe them, my only regret is that I can't direct my taxes toward mass transit, stem cell research, housing, and a zillion other more useful things than the G-D missile defense program, Iraq and other boondoggles.

(Green eyeshade on: if you're due a whopping big refund, then adjust your bloody W-4. Why make an interest-free loan to George Bush?)

urban

Everybody likes a BIG story, small change is boring. And why the democrats call themselves "dems" ? It sounds like dames or duche bags, not a powerful name.

mac macgillicuddy

"Because I don't think the earner will spend it to build roads, control air traffic, fund college scholarships, subsidize scientific research, provide health care to the old and the poor... and on and on."

Herein lies the fundamental fallacy behind all the disdain for taxes. There's no way for a democratic society to run itself without some cash to do the above. Oddly, as a collection of 360 million independent city-states, we seem to think this stuff just happens.

I don't mind paying taxes. I believe in taxes. I'm a Democrat -- from each according to his means, to each according to his need. The so-called tax rebels weren't against taxes, either. If you study your history, you'll read that the issue was taxes levied by a king an ocean away, while the colonists had no say in what was taxed or how much, and the British got most if not all of the benefit. That's the seat of the rebellion: giving money to people who have no intention of doing anything for you...

mac macgillicuddy

PS-- to Michael G and in reference to my being a democrat, I know you mean the Democtratic Party, who used to stand for the interests of the working class and the labor unions who, by the way, were not and are still not liberal in their views. It's just that the Democratic Party used to stand for something they could relate to, and now the Dems seem to stand for a lot of the same things the Republicans stand for, but with worse PR savvy.

denisdekat

"In other words, we live in a nation full of suckers."

Also, a nation of ignorance. A lot of this is the poor state of education we have. Very few folks have any context beyond what has happened in the last few months...

Dems are not getting their message across because big business has a huge stake in all major media, and big business wants republicans to win so they can get huge tax cuts and favorable business conditions. Whenever I hear Network folks report from Iraq, they love ending with things like "it is not all bad today, hundreds of men are signing up for police jobs, they want jobs". I guess this comment is supposed to make a positive twist on the situation, even though the statement stinks of unemployment and desperation. They are cheerleaders; the network news is a bunch of cheerleaders. Today one of them said the Dems still have no proposals on social security...

So network news is speaking the talk that Republicans want...

Dems think it is good enough to do damage control, they need to attack big time, they need to start trust busting bigt media with everything they have...

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