Mar
30
I was over at the Crapperty File at CNN looking for some blog bait, and one of Jackie Boy’s questions was “How would you change income tax laws?“ There’s no question that Cafferty himself is a statist moonbat, and his audience is usually a bunch of incoherent, class-warfare morons. However, the answers to this question were overwhelmingly not what I expected. While there were a plenty of responses such as this from Bob:
Changes that should be made include returning to a 39% top tax rate, having hedge fund managers’ compensation taxed as regular income instead of being taxed at the 15% capital gains rate, taxing adjusted gross income under $200,000 at a 10% rate and to top it off, remove the income “cap” on wages taxed for Social Security.
And this from Kenny:
Anything over $5 million a year, I would impose a 90% tax on. Simply put, if you can’t live on five million each and every year, you’re doing something so incredibly stupid you don’t deserve that kind of money anyway!
Many of the responses took a very level headed, equal-treatment tone. Libertarian Neal Boortz somehow managed to infiltrate this group quite a bit. Take this from Anna:
That’s an easy one. Set a percentage – say 10%. Set that percentage for EVERYONE. No loopholes. No deductions. Straight percentage. No matter what your income, everyone pays the same percentage. No one should complain. And the taxes can be collected on a rotating basis. Like getting a yearly inspection. That way, you always have money coming in.
… this from Stan:
I would create a Federal Sales Tax. The benefits are that it would be easy to administer, streamline the IRS, encourage savings, eliminate the underground economy, and be fair to all. Some will argue it penalizes the poor/lower income because they spend 100% of their economy out of necessity. However, the benefits far outweigh the downside.
Or this outright endorsement of the Fair Tax from Micehlle[sic]:
This is such a no-brainer to me. Do away with the IRS and implement the Fair Tax. This will tax people based upon what they spend, not what they make. If every American citizen had the money the IRS withholds from their paycheck, talk about an economic stimulus. Plus, this would significantly broaden the tax base as it will force people to stop living under the radar and pay their fair share.
If Geithner and many, many others in Washington can’t figure out the 67,000 pages of our Tax Code, how should any average Joe be expeceted[sic] to?
The Fair Tax was an official proposal by Libertarian radio host Neal Boortz and Georgia Congressman John Linder, and outlined in The Fair Tax Book. In a nutshell, the Fair Tax as proposed by Boortz and Linder would replace all federal taxes with a national sales tax of 23% of the final bill of sale, equivalent to a 30% conventional sales tax. The Fair Tax’s biggest advantages are that it treats everyone equally, is much easier to file and predict, and does not feature loopholes and deductions that politicians can use to control your behavior and help their buddies save money. It is a knife in the heart of class politics, and makes the cost of government very transparent in everyday life, as opposed to some figure on your paycheck stub, or an expense to be paid by “other people” or “the rich.”
What does such an outcry say about the American populace? First of all, we are not nearly as liberal as the past two elections would suggest. Call me crazy, but somehow Obama running on tax cuts and bombing Pakistan doesn’t suggest a liberal mandate to me.
Nor is the American public strictly conservative. What I do think are viable positions in American politics are a simplification of the tax code and equal liability. Sure, there are nuts out there that demand that everyone making over a certain amount is “too rich for their own good” or “too greedy,” but most people will be willing to have inequality in exchange for prosperity. The key for fiscal conservatives and libertarians is to show how harmful progressive taxation is on business and jobs. I think it is already clear that complicated tax rules favor the political elite and those that can afford the best lawyers.
Another winning point that fiscal conservatism needs to champion is America’s disgust with deficits. We have allowed the fallacious belief to persist that budget deficits are a result of tax cuts cutting federal revenue too short. As I have shown earlier with a nifty chart, revenue is not the problem. Spending is. However, the Republicans lost the ability to attack spending as an issue when they wasted money like sailors in port in the six years they were in power.
The national debt and federal budget deficit is a result of rampant spending that far outpaces a healthy revenue stream. The liberals know the best way to make higher taxes palatable for the average voter is to use deficit reduction as an excuse. The Democrat mantra is not tax-and-spend; it is spend-and-tax.
The fiscally conservative/libertarian/Republican agenda can win again if it can demonstrate to America that progressive income taxes don’t work and that spending and deficits are only excuses to confiscate more of our income. Success is staring us in the face.
Mar
4
Get Ready to Vomit In …3…2…1…
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Many on the political right howl about the liberal bias in the media. There are obviously some very liberal journalists, commentators, and editors out there, but I always felt the MSM was more a group of ignorant tabloid artists than explicitly biased.
But what do you get when you mix a liberal bias with ignorance and stupidity?
Crapperty File author Jack Cafferty literally has a crush on Michelle Obama:
I think I am developing a crush on America’s first lady. Michelle Obama is more compelling than her husband. He’s good, but she’s utterly fascinating.
Mrs. Obama has blown away the stale air in a White House musty from eight years of the Bushes. It’s like the sun came out and a fresh spring breeze began wafting through the open windows.
Does anyone else see the supreme danger of this kind of worship of politicians and their families by members of the media?
And Cafferty says the stale air has been there for only the last eight years? Oh that’s right, because Hillary was so cute and charming. Hell, after Slick Willy’s white house exploits, the place could use a little stale air.
It’s the people’s house, and Michelle Obama totally gets it. So much so that she has taken to inviting people in from the streets to see her home. Nice touch — one completely lacking in her recent predecessors.
Yeah, for some reason the Bushes got all touchy just because a couple guys flew planes into the nearby Pentagon and the WTC (with a third plane reportedly on its way to the capitol building) and killed 3,000 people. What a couple of buzz-kills, ya know?
Watch her when she visits a local school and you see the warmth and affection she instantly triggers in people. Kids are pretty much totally honest with very good BS-detectors. If they sense you’re a phony, forget it. But around the first lady, they want to hug her and laugh with her and tell her stories.
Now that’s change, because that dumb old Laura Bush avoided schools like the plague. For some strange reason, Laura’s “charity” relies on private, voluntary donations of money and books, not demanding the earnings of taxpayers. Where did she learn such nonsense?
Cafferty nearly has a wet dream when he gets to the first lady’s arms:
Her arms are becoming the stuff of legend. Who appears sleeveless on the cover of Vogue, let alone in front of a joint session of Congress while her husband delivers one of the most important speeches of his life? And the reviews were rave.
Cindi Leive, the editor of Glamour magazine gushed, “Oh my god! The first lady has bare arms in Congress in February at night!” If she keeps it up, Seventh Avenue will soon stop making women’s clothes with sleeves.
Ok, I admit it. When it comes to the first lady, I’m smitten.
I can feel my gag reflex coming on….
Michelle Obama’s unassuming, but dead-on, sense of style has the fashion press gushing all over itself.
I wouldn’t limit the gushing to the “fashion press” Jackie boy.
Feb
23
Concepts That Escape Crapperty File Fans: Economics and Grammar
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This afternoon the Crapperty File asked his horde of idiots if today’s economic challenges are “worse than the great depression.” While a mountain of statistics clearly shout “no”, a reader named “Odessa,” chimed in with the usual profundity of Cafferty’s readers:
February 23rd, 2009 1:38 pm ET
it means that all people need a serious wake up call..rich folks in this country has been taken advantage by the poor and middle classes too long..everyone was been hacked by wall street, big banks are getting greedier, subprime loans bamboolzed working people, too much deregulation in businsses and etc..both classes are suffering because no one hasn’t looked out for them and they are tired of being screwed while fat cats continue to get rich..being rich isn’t a crime but i think that everyone needs a morality check once in a while when it comes to investing money and watching the banks too..retail stores aren’t making money because people don’t have money..people are saving money or paying the main bills to survive..things will get better but it will take time to overcome and what our president will make the right decisions thinking about our country so it can get back on track..
Clearly, things began to unravel when “everyone was been hacked by wall street.” The best line, in my opinion.
Jan
26
Even the Crapperty File Can See How Stupid the ‘Stimulus’ Is Becoming
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It appears that even a liberal moron like CNN’s Jack Cafferty can see that the Democrat stimulus bill will do nothing to stimulate the economy, and is in fact an enormous socialist free for all. Said Cafferty:
On ABC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended hundreds of millions of dollars in the stimulus package earmarked for family planning.
She said family planning reduces costs and explained that the stimulus plan includes assistance to states and part of that includes children’s health and education. That includes contraception, which she said will, “reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
For those of you unfamiliar with this blowhard, he basically explains some current event, complains about it, and asks a pointless question to elicit a knee jerk reaction out of knee jerk liberals. However, he wasn’t too kind to Speaker Pelosi on this round. He even compares her to “Chairman Mao.”
The first odd thing is that I never thought I’d have The Crapperty File and Moonbattery echoing the same sentiment.
The second odd thing is that if this mess of a bill is so transparent that Cafferty can pick up on it, how bad could this possibly get before it is inevitably forced down our throats?
