Old Blue Collar Joe
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- Posted: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:17:19 +0000
azulmagia
Old Blue Collar Joe
Personally, I'd rather have more people employed and paying taxes than 47% NOT paying any.
The "47% don't pay taxes" is a discredited meme. How many times must this be pointed out to you? The only taxes they're not paying is the federal income tax. Which, incidentally, when they originated, only targetted the first few top percent.
Now if you want the history of the meme itself, check here. For tl;dr people, the phases are:
1. WSJ argues in 2002 that Bush shouldn't have tax breaks for the non-rich since there are so many "lucky duckies" already. Bush should focus on people earning over $250,000.
2. The AEI in the Obama era. Here, the specific percentage given is 30%, who "reject the free enterprise system culturally" and who "twists equality of opportunity into equality of outcome."
3. Paul Ryan in 2011. Gives it as 49%. The social safety net is identified as something evil in se.
4. Reason magazine talking to Jim DeMint. It's going to be just like Greece!
Oh, and Paul Ryan has been caught in his own embarassing moment:
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It is impossible to summarize these statements without sounding like a breathless conspiracy theorist. Here’s what Ryan says. Don’t trust my bullets. Read the transcript. Don’t trust my transcript, listen to the audio on the Atlas Society site.
Ryan describes Social Security and Medicare as “collectivist” and “socialistic.”
Ryan’s strategic plan: privatize Social Security and Medicare in order to convert people from “collectivism” to believers in a “capitalistic individualistic” philosophy. So that there will be “more people on our team” who “won’t listen to” Democrats.
Ryan’s acceptance of Pinochet’s Secretary of Social Security José Piñera’s similar program of Social Security privatization as a “moral revolution” that made Marxists into capitalists who started to read the Chilean equivalent of the Wall Street Journal. Ryan is overheard, “Yeah” “That’s right.”
For Ryan “defined benefit” programs such as Social Security and Medicare are problems in themselves. This isn’t something he saves for gatherings of the Ayn Rand Society, such concerns about “dependency” are scattered throughout his Path to Prosperity—again hidden in plain sight. This transcript doesn’t so much reveal a secret, as highlight a clear theme in his policy rationale that is always present, but in more public settings subordinated to his prophecies of fiscal apocalypse. Thus, it is no surprise his budget cuts the safety net and radically reshapes Medicare first and addresses the deficit later.
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Ryan describes Social Security and Medicare as “collectivist” and “socialistic.”
Ryan’s strategic plan: privatize Social Security and Medicare in order to convert people from “collectivism” to believers in a “capitalistic individualistic” philosophy. So that there will be “more people on our team” who “won’t listen to” Democrats.
Ryan’s acceptance of Pinochet’s Secretary of Social Security José Piñera’s similar program of Social Security privatization as a “moral revolution” that made Marxists into capitalists who started to read the Chilean equivalent of the Wall Street Journal. Ryan is overheard, “Yeah” “That’s right.”
For Ryan “defined benefit” programs such as Social Security and Medicare are problems in themselves. This isn’t something he saves for gatherings of the Ayn Rand Society, such concerns about “dependency” are scattered throughout his Path to Prosperity—again hidden in plain sight. This transcript doesn’t so much reveal a secret, as highlight a clear theme in his policy rationale that is always present, but in more public settings subordinated to his prophecies of fiscal apocalypse. Thus, it is no surprise his budget cuts the safety net and radically reshapes Medicare first and addresses the deficit later.
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Atlas Society. s**t, is there nothing Ayn Rand hasn't poisoned already?
And another thing. If the 47% are moocher and will never vote GOP, and the smart people will also never support the GOP (as Rick Santorum admitted recently), what does THAT Venn diagram look like?
I'll make this short, since we already know we won't agree. But I do like the arrogance in the last part about 'smart people'. Typical liberal arrogance.
I'm not voting for Romney. I'm voting against Obama. It's really that simple. We don't have a candidate that I feel is worthy. But we know Obama can't do the job. Worst government I've ever seen in action.
I really hope Hil runs next time.