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MrHodja
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Objectivity vs Subjectivity
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9/20/2011 11:19:21 AM
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Obama keeps harping on paying "their fair share" when referring to high income earners.
So who objectively determines "fair share"? I suspect if you were to ask six people to define "fair share" you would get seven answers. I certainly wouldn't trust any politician because they all have ulterior motives......well maybe Paul Ryan and/or Allen West are exceptions. Also hard to argue with the facts and logic coming from Marco Rubio.
Is it fair to ask those bringing in higher incomes to pay even more, even though it now it looks like those folks indeed are paying a higher percentage than their middle class counterparts? How about the roughly half of the "taxpayers" that pay no taxes or negative taxes (pay NOTHING in and still get a refund)? Who is to say that the wealthy have to pay for it all? Why shouldn't the not-so-wealthy share part of the burden as well? How about eliminating refunds in excess of taxes paid?
The current national discussion about "fair share" is a crock. I don't have the answer but get tired of politicians who seem to think they do..... and their answer always plays to their political base rather than the good of the country.
Side Note: Talk about bizarre, Ed Schultz congratulated Obama on his wanting tax hikes by saying the Republicans ran up the debt "like drunken sailors". Using that analogy, I guess Obama is simultaneously on crack, speed, heroin, and crystal meth.
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MartiniMan
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Oblamer in campaign mode
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9/20/2011 11:59:23 AM
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MrHodjq, what we have to recognize is that Oblamer has never been a leader and is fully in campaign mode along with being desperate. Normally at this point in a first term the President will be tacking to the center to ensure reelection. Unfortunately for the Messiah he has been such an abject failure and objectively incompetent that he is actually moving left to try to shore up his base because he knows he has no hope without them.
But knowing him and his narcissism he probably thinks that he can give 500 speeches (i.e., read from the teleprompter) and rely on the sycophantic dinosaur government media and independents will flock to him when it comes election time. He will blame Bush. He will blame the "do nothing" Congress". He will blame Greece. He will blame [fill in the most recent natural disaster]. He will blame Big Business" He will blame millionaires and billionaires. He will blame you and I and call us racists because we oppose his statist, big government agenda. But the American people, including most Independents (Hound being the notable exception) will rightly understand that he has had three years (almost four by election day) to right the ship and everything he has proposed and implemented has failed.
He also doesn't seem to understand that the GOP in the House will not sit back and do nothing. They have and will continue to propose reasonable and logical plans that actually rely on the markets to create jobs and not the government. And the GOP presidential candidate will offer an alternate view of the U.S. that is not declinist and hopelessly negative as Oblamer sees our country. They will be upbeat and optimistic while Oblamer points fingers and whines.
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