Quote from BlindLemonBoosh:
"Forbes entered the Republican primaries for President of the United States in 1996 and 2000, primarily running on a campaign to establish a flat income tax."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Forbes
Steve Forbes is not rich?
A good point. However, it doesn't relate to my original post.
Now, back to the original topic: don't you see the irony?
I was elected as a Forbes delegate in 2000. He'd already dropped out by the Illinois primary. Who ever voted for me
really wasted a vote, lol.
I don't know that a flat tax would've benefited Forbes. I doubt it. His flat tax proposal was pretty light on write-offs too.
But no I see ZERO irony in your OP. Palin policies are 8x closer to favoring working people than Obama policies. I really don't know who the "rich" guys you're referring to? It gets back to MY original point. The untaxed asset heavy elite seem to favor Obama. The
working rich favor McCain. Use your friggin head. Who cares about tax rates more, Bill Gates or Phil Mickelson? Gates is still going to be worth a zillion regardless.
I'm a case in point. I'm worth exactly 2mil. A bit over half is in RE though. So via Treasury rates I make what a manager at Wendy's is paid. To those less fortunate I'm probably viewed as some fat cat. Instead I'm an unemployable white male (oh I thought whites can get any job they want) and I take market shots to supplement my dividend/interest income. Risky existence. Under neither Obama nor McCain do I or any other self-employed businessmen enjoy a safety net. Think or swim. Knowing that even though I've paid a half mil lifetime in Federal income taxes that I can't get so much as a food stamp if I blow up, how sympathetic do you think I am writing out 30k in checks like I did last year? Me and a lot of middle Americans look upon the Federal government as this huge personal expense that provides little service to us personally commiserate to it's cost. Unless you're employed by government (5% of America) or consuming loads of government-which is more likely on the local level than Federal-the Federal government is an albatross. Particularly at a time when our meager assets are imploding. So yes, Palin is speaking to ME, she's speaking to the machine shop owner who can't afford a bump in payroll taxes, she's speaking to every over strapped by property taxes homeowner who needs MORE for his community but can only afford to give less. Enlarging the federal government is not a solution to those more important issues. Palin understands that. Obama doesn't.
What I find "ironic" is for the past 20 years we've had the same Bush-Clinton-Bush administration. Scant changes in policy. ALL Ivy-Leaguers. Now Obama: another academic who thinks he
knows something. For a century we've elected elites. Either elites out the military, out of Ivy league universities, rich kids who served in Congress, even Hollywood-in one form or another
uncommon. Only Truman was a true accident of history. The move away from common sense and common values has only served to diminish our economic and moral strength. We're a government of insiders. It builds an unhealthy disconnect between political classes.
the BIGGEST irony is how the political/economic situation in the U.K. is having the same effect as in the States except it's LABOR paying the price. The Tories will take Parliament and move the British government smaller while with an identical environment we think the answer is going bigger. We really don't get it....
