Liberal lie #1
Gracie - Proud Conservative
2012/06/01 22:24:49
1. The rich don't pay their fair share.
Warren Buffett as quoted from the NY Times.
My
friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly
Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared
sacrifice."
As you can see from the graph, the percentages he quotes about the people in his office is fundamentally untrue, not to mention that he's comparing his Capital Gains Taxes with their Income Taxes...apples and oranges.
Hey, Mr. Buffet! All you and your liberal rich friends need to do is send the IRS a check and make it all equal. And, you could go ahead and pay that billion dollars that you owe in back taxes...that would help a bunch. If your office averaged those tax rates, they must be in the top 1% themselves! Put up or shut up!
Warren Buffett as quoted from the NY Times.
"...Blessings
are showered upon [the super-rich] by legislators in Washington who
feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some
other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.
are showered upon [the super-rich] by legislators in Washington who
feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some
other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.
Last
year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll
taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a
lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable
income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of
the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33
percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.
year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll
taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a
lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable
income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of
the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33
percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.
friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly
Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared
sacrifice."
As you can see from the graph, the percentages he quotes about the people in his office is fundamentally untrue, not to mention that he's comparing his Capital Gains Taxes with their Income Taxes...apples and oranges.
Hey, Mr. Buffet! All you and your liberal rich friends need to do is send the IRS a check and make it all equal. And, you could go ahead and pay that billion dollars that you owe in back taxes...that would help a bunch. If your office averaged those tax rates, they must be in the top 1% themselves! Put up or shut up!
Top Opinion
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Tinka123 2012/06/01 23:03:38
If you don't like the rich, Buffet is the most evil of them all.
We are paying for it all through inflation and taxes. It is unsustainable and will eventually all come crashing down. By then it will be to late for anyone to do anything.
Exactly. They'll just drop into the bottomless pit that is "legislation." I agree, enough already. They can't even fulfill their most basic obligation - drafting a budget - and they want more money? No way - forget that.
Another benefit is that by taxing domestic labor, domestic producers are at a cost disadvantage to foreign production that is not taxed equally, whereas a consumption tax would tax imports and domestic production alike, making domestic production more competitive without starting a trade war based on increased tariffs.
“Lie #30: George W. Bush was Selected, Not Elected in 2000, and Votes Were Stolen On His Behalf”
ref: Larry Schweikart, 48 Liberal Lies About American History, (New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2009), p. 155.
Schweikart sets the stage for us, describing the carnival-like atmosphere that permeated Florida with the on-again, off-again, Gore won, then Bush won, swing of fortune, the infamous “butterfly ballot,” and more importantly told the story of how the DNC was instrumental in voter fraud when thousands of ballots were punched twice.
He would then offer the evidence. He demonstrates that it was actually the DNC, through the Texas-based telemarketing company they hired called TeleQuest, who contacted nearly all the Palm Beach voters (nearly 5000) and asked them to return to the polling place, “so that this problem can be fixed.” This was done, “an hour before the polls closed.” (Ibid, p. 156-7)
A list of 2400 names were held in their queue… waiting. Then he nails the coffin to their argument shut!
“Since it was not yet known whether the votes would be ‘needed’—because early calls of Florida had Gore winning—nothing was made public. But… when George Bush had amassed a lead, the DNC had tracked down th...
“Lie #30: George W. Bush was Selected, Not Elected in 2000, and Votes Were Stolen On His Behalf”
ref: Larry Schweikart, 48 Liberal Lies About American History, (New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2009), p. 155.
Schweikart sets the stage for us, describing the carnival-like atmosphere that permeated Florida with the on-again, off-again, Gore won, then Bush won, swing of fortune, the infamous “butterfly ballot,” and more importantly told the story of how the DNC was instrumental in voter fraud when thousands of ballots were punched twice.
He would then offer the evidence. He demonstrates that it was actually the DNC, through the Texas-based telemarketing company they hired called TeleQuest, who contacted nearly all the Palm Beach voters (nearly 5000) and asked them to return to the polling place, “so that this problem can be fixed.” This was done, “an hour before the polls closed.” (Ibid, p. 156-7)
A list of 2400 names were held in their queue… waiting. Then he nails the coffin to their argument shut!
“Since it was not yet known whether the votes would be ‘needed’—because early calls of Florida had Gore winning—nothing was made public. But… when George Bush had amassed a lead, the DNC had tracked down the voters and urged them to swear affidavits claiming they had been fooled by the butterfly ballot.” (Ibid, p. 157)
Schweikart correctly demonstrated that not only did the Supreme Court rule correctly per the U.S. Constitution that the recount was unconstitutional, but a liberal source acting to vindicate Al Gore had determined that had the recount been accomplished, Bush would have won anyway!
“Postscript: In November 2001, the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, with funding from the Miami Herald, conducted a comprehensive review of all uncounted machine ballots in the Florida 2000 election and concluded that the only way Gore could have won was by ‘using counting methods that were never requested, including ‘overvotes.’ Yet even this standard could not meet the constitutional test set by the Supreme Court for a statewide hand recount, which the consortium reluctantly agreed Bush would have won.” (Ibid, p. 161)
Especially since they can be taken in by ads like this...