Time to Put an End to This 'Fair Share' Cr@p

@debrakcarey (19887)
United States
July 20, 2012 4:42pm CST
http://www.politijim.com/2012/07/visual-proof-of-obamas-dishonesty-of.html?utm_source=BP_recent As you can see, in 2009 the top 1% made 17% of the income and paid 37% of the taxes. Does that seem like they "aren't paying their fair share?" http://www.politijim.com/2012/07/visual-proof-of-obamas-dishonesty-of.html?utm_source=BP_recent As you can see, the top 5% make 32% of the income and pay a whopping 59% of the taxes with the ratio of taxes to income being around 1.7 over time. Again, there are no signs that they aren't paying their "fair share." And once again, there doesn't seem to be any impact from the Bush tax cuts. In 2000, the top 5% made 35% of the income and paid 56.5% of the taxes for a ratio of 1.6. In 2008, the top 5% made 35% of the income and paid 58.7% of the taxes for a ratio of 1.7. This info is on the IRS website as well. ANYONE can find it and see that Obama is lying, pushing propaganda. http://www.politijim.com/2012/07/visual-proof-of-obamas-dishonesty-of.html?utm_source=BP_recent
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
20 Jul 12
Every one of us has the opportunity to be in the upper 1% or 5% if we are cleaver enough and want to work hard and give up spending until we reach that level. I'm not cleaver or ambitious enough to get there. I think that because Obama isn't in that group he is jealous and trying to bring them down. With all the Executive orders I'm beginning to think he wants to be dictator. Especially since he admire Hugo Chávez dictator of Venezuela,http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/12/morning-bell-obama-fails-to-see-serious-impact-of-hugo-chavez/
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
21 Jul 12
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/ This website lists ALL the orginizations, individuals, and ideologies of the LEFTIST take over of America. Obama IS a dictator, and he intends to stay OUR dictator. If he's reelected, say good bye to USofA's Constitutional Republic.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
22 Jul 12
Sue Just what makes you say that these rants are misinformed.
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• United States
22 Jul 12
A constitutional Republic, however, that still allows you to go on these ill-informed rants!
@peavey (16936)
• United States
21 Jul 12
We need to get those figures out to more people! We know Obama is playing mind games and too many people let him play with their minds. I don't even want to think about the end result of it all. They have brought class warfare to the front slyly but efficiently. And I still think you need to have a blog.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
23 Jul 12
Keep at it, then! PM me your facebook ID, if you don't mind?
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
23 Jul 12
I am on facebook and twitter as well as a discussion group besides myLot and a web browser for an online newspaper. It is sometimes more than I can keep up with. But I take that as encouragment and thank you very much for it.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
23 Jul 12
Seems to me that simple logic should clear up this issue of class envy (and blame game, the true root of far too many wars). If you raise taxes on the wealthiest you're simply taking more money out of public circulation (stimulus) and giving more for the government to waste. And after all that, the expense will simply be passed on to everyone else in the form of higher prices for the goods we buy.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
28 Jul 12
Sorry I missed your response. Wasn't ignoring you, I agree very strongly with your response!
@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
20 Jul 12
If it were not for the wealthy we would have to pay a whole lot more. People need to wake up and realize that the wealthy promote the economy and jobs, they do not take the food out of our mouths and the money out of our pockets. I think there are a lot of jealous and envious people who think no one should prosper.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
21 Jul 12
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&type=issue It is classic Marxist rhetoric. Read up on it at this website. Very well researched and NOT prone to sensationalism.
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
21 Jul 12
I looked up fair share in a dictionary and it said, "Honest treatment." I would like someone to explain to me how it can be honest treatment to take from one who earned his wealth and give any portion to one who refuses to earn. Was it fair when Obama gutted the welfare reform act?
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
23 Jul 12
I don't know. Been listening to it for three years now and still cannot wrap my head around it. I always told my kids, and now tell my grandkids, LIFE IS NOT FAIR. And when they got to about five years old, they were told, we don't get to sit on our butts everyone has to work. I am told my sons are some of the hardest working men their bosses have seen. EVEN though one is unemployed, he is out everyday, mowing, helping old folks, working on people's homes, cars, yards etc. AS WELL as doing his work searches. There is no free ride, and life is not fair. To many people feel otherwise.
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• United States
21 Jul 12
What even counts as income at that level, the top percent don't have traditional jobs. Those who do get muti-million dollar incomes are often getting millions more in capital gains and other sources of revenue. You want fair share. The top 10% own 90% of the country, by that means they should be responsible for 90% of the taxes. The worst part is, some of the richest people don't even have real incomes, the top 10% of earners in this country probably coincides with around the 2-12% in actual wealth.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
21 Jul 12
I want to know-just when it became a bad thing to be successful? And I'd like a link to that info please. Not opinion mind you, I want it backed up with some solid proof. And what are capital gains? Return on investment right? People take THEIR money and invest it in someone's venture and for doing so, get a return. I'd like to know why THAT is bad as well.
• United States
22 Jul 12
Here, this isn't quite as bad as the top 10% having 90% but it's not much better, on the up side it's pretty comprehensive study. Scrolling down and looking at some graphs you can easily see that 37% of taxes is a much smaller number than they're percentage of wealth. Everyone should at least skim this, it really puts things into perspective. http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
22 Jul 12
thanks. yes, I see the point. But I still don't agree with it. There is just NO justification for advocating TAKING other people's stuff. Or for the class 'envy' being propagated to make it easier. Private Property is one of the BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS in my opinion. And NO GOVERNMENT should have the right to take from one person to give to another. WE decide, not the 'ruling elite' that our government has become. We've fought one time against a government that felt they had the right to tax us against OUR WILL.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
21 Jul 12
I don't know why it should, but it never fails to amaze me how people accept anything they are told and don't research it themselves. I also don't understand why these facts are not publicized by the PACs or somebody else. Well, maybe they have done so but I don't watch commercials so I wouldn't know--but FFing past the commercials, I don't see anything like these figures. I know a lot of people who believe the crap and when I tell them the facts they say that the Republicans have planted those figures, highjacking the IRS website and even altering downloadable forms so that people will get into trouble. The public, even some of the people I know, have been brainwashed to think one party is totally evil and malicious while the other (dems) is benevolent and only wants to help people. That's perfect for the class warfare that's going on. I can't wait for the debates and I hope Romney grows a pair before then.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
21 Jul 12
What I did that was new was to prove: that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historic phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society. Karl Marx The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. A statist system—whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare” type—is based on the . . . government’s unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed, defenseless victims. Nothing can ever justify so monstrously evil a theory. Nothing can justify the horror, the brutality, the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter of statist dictatorships. Ayn Rand There you have the two differing mind sets. Satism: the theory or practice of concentrating economic and political power in the state, resulting in a weak position for the individual or community with respect to the government. individual liberty: the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control. The problem with statism is it is a system that supposes the state will be benevolent. James Madison said: All men having power ought to be mistrusted. And: Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. And: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. What Marxist don't take into consideration is man's nature. Nietzsche's doctrine of 'the will to power' is a psychological presupposition that humans are always attempting to inflict their wills upon others. Every action toward another individual stems from a deep-down desire to bring that person under one's power in one way or another. The Bible says it this way: the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it. It is with the INDIVIDUAL that God deals with in changeing hearts, or this 'will to power' that Nietzshe speaks of. You cannot 'legislate' morality. So why did God give the ten commandments then? If the nature of man is wicked, and you cannot make a man be good against his will, why bother with laws? Like Madison says, if men were angels (sinless) there would be no need of government. Government is instituted to enforce laws, laws that set the standard for behavior. Government is an agent of God to enforce laws on rebellious mankind. Government does NOT change hearts. It enforces laws against bad behavior. And we all know that government does not always operate in a fair way. How can it, it is composed of men with natures 'that will to power'. The answer is to give the governing of man to each man himself. That is the WE THE PEOPLE, but as our founders noted, if men are not religious and moral, they would not be able to govern themselves. That is why we are seeing what we are seeing. Nature abhors a vacuum. So, if individuals will not govern themselves, the state will govern them. Accountability demands law enforcement. If it does not come from the individual himself, it must come from the state, the collective. There is no UTOPIA possible while on this earth. The 'state' will gather to itself the POWER to rule men. And the less men rule themselves, the more power they give to the state to do so. Marxism never works along side individual liberty because men are wicked and strive for power. Concentrate that power in a few, and there is no individual liberty. What I said all that for is this; we are seeing in the minds and hearts of some Americans is the desire to make things fair. To relieve suffering of people they know, and of society in general. THAT is not a bad thing in and of itself. What is BAD is the STATE taking advantage of this to gather power to itself at the expense of individual liberty.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
23 Jul 12
I was going to tell you welcome to myLot. I wrote that myself btw. You won't be very welcome on mylot with that kind of approach to people, if you start accusing people of plagerism before you even know them.
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• United States
22 Jul 12
All of that sounds like it was lifted directly from Ayn Rand. You should be using quotation marks if you are using her thouughts or ideas.
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