Archive for October, 2010

Brett Noel

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Bob Maistros

OK.  I’m going to repeat it again until we get it right.  As Jack Kemp put it, “If you want less of something, tax it.  If you want more of something, subsidize it.”

What do we want more of?  Anyone?  “Jobs and growth.”  Thank you.  So why do we tax them and the things that create them?

Hel-LO!  As Rahm Emanuel so put it so memorably in another context, “F—-ing re-tar… “ Oops.  Well, on second thought, let’s just say, not very smart.

End it, don't mend it.

Which brings me to my next four reasons why if the GOP is serious about fixing government, it will pursue a modified version of the Fair Tax (a national sales tax).

Reason #5:  Simplicity, ease and convenience. People.  DO NOT glorify government.  It’s a SERVICE.  So why should it be any harder or more complex to pay for government than for any other service?  After all, what service requires you to fill out 10 pages of forms just to buy it, and has a different price depending on where you live, how many kids you have, how you earned your money, and so on?

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Dan Calabrese

Last night I covered the debate between the Michigan gubernatorial candidates, Republican Rick Snyder and Democrat Virg Bernero. The polls show Snyder with an enormous lead, which of course mirrors much of the country in what is shaping up to be a Republican romp across the nation in November.

But you can’t help but be struck by something when you listen to Bernero. The mayor of Lansing, which is Michigan’s capital, Bernero is so steeped in class warfare, you’d think it had just come into vogue as a winning political strategy. Again and again, he railed against Wall Street, profits, “fat cats,” millionaires and banks. Again and again, he railed against the “people at the top.”

Angry.

And the more you hear this, the more two questions come to mind: 1. Does he really think this is going to work? 2. Does he really think the problem with the economy is too many millionaires, profits, fat cats and banks?

Maybe he does. Bernero has been in politics most of his life, so he’s not terribly familiar with how the private sector works. That’s usually the case with politicians who think it’s a scandal when capitalists make a profit.

But it occurred to me in listening to Bernero that he’s really not all that unique among Democrats this year. In spite of the fact that it’s going over like a lead balloon everywhere, Democrats aren’t loosening their grip on class warfare even a little. Either they haven’t noticed that people aren’t buying it, or it makes no difference if they have noticed because they don’t have anything else to say.

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Bob Maistros

NOTE:  This post now includes all five parts of this series.

So, my Republican friends.  You say you want to run the government … and reform it.

Well, Pledge, schmedge.  If you’re really serious, I have a one-step-fixes-all platform for you.

Say a fond farewell to this.

A national sales tax.

Yeah.  You heard me.  Tossing out the vile, intrusive, un-American income tax – and the massive spend-avoid-and-distort complex that has grown up around it – and replacing them with a sales tax regime can help fix much of what is wrong with our government and our nation in one fell swoop.

Which is why I’m going to spend an entire week of posts on my modified version of a national sales tax proposal known as the Fair Tax.

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Herman Cain

I am an American Black Conservative (ABC).

Since April 15, 2009 I have spoken at over 30 citizens’ movement events, which have included Tea Party rallies, prosperity conferences and other conservative gatherings. At those events I have yet to find the racists and extremists that the liberals continue to say exist. In fact, I and my message of “Take Back Our Government” have been enthusiastically received.

Yeah, they hate black dudes.

Not to be boastful, but to illustrate my point, last Saturday at the Virginia Tea Party convention of over 2,300 attendees, I received no less than five standing ovations during my 20-minute keynote address. Following my speech over 100 people waited patiently in line for an hour and a half to get my autograph and their picture taken with this ABC.

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Gregory D. Lee

The New York Times recently editorialized that Secure Communities, a federal program instituted under the Bush administration and being pushed by the Obama administration, “snares innocent immigrants.” The program checks names and fingerprints of anyone arrested against immigration records to determine if the arrestee is an illegal alien. The police then turn the person over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings. So what’s wrong with that? How does it snare innocent immigrants if they are arrested and here illegally?

Ivory tower.

The New York Times claims that this program is a “source of anxiety and anger for cities, counties and police departments that want to preserve a bright line between local policing and federal immigration enforcement. Their valid concern is that local officers should never be seen by immigrant communities as arms of immigration enforcement.” Then the editor wrote: “Fighting and preventing crime are unrelated to detaining and deporting immigrants and should stay that way” (emphasis added).

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Dacia Nichol

This inspirational thought is brought to you by Congressman Bobby Bright of Alabama who, as a Democrat in his reelection bid, has decided to align himself with none other than John Boehner to show how anti-Pelosi-Obama he wants people to think he is.  Voting with Boehner 80 percent of the time? Methinks that means you’re better than most of the GOP RINOs, no? Hold on. The mental cogs are grinding and I might have a thought churning out…

Yeah, I never really liked her anyway...

What exactly makes you a conservative?  My analysis?  Who the hell knows.

I used to think it meant the whole bit about small government, free market, low taxes…you know, all those freedom/liberty guarantees and so forth. Now Jim DeMint says that it means I shouldn’t want single moms teaching in the classroom, either.

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David Karki

“If they’re (the GOP) successful in doing that, they’ve already said they’re going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration. That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill.” […]

It's on.

“The reason we won [in 2008] is because young people, African Americans, Latinos — people who traditionally don’t vote in high numbers — voted in record numbers. Everybody in the barbershops, the beauty shops, and at work — everybody’s got to understand:  This is a huge election. If we turn out in strong numbers, then we will do fine. If we do not, if we are depressed and decide, well, you know, Barack’s not running right now, so I’m just going to stay home, then I’m going to have my hands full up here on Capitol Hill.”

I’m not sure if I should punch President Obama in the face for the above comments, or thank him for them. On the one hand, they’re completely disgusting, a blatant demagogic attempt to stir up race war among minority listeners by one who was ostensibly supposed to heal and unite (what a steaming pile of manure that was), solely for the purpose of saving his narcissistic hide. They could not be more irresponsible, unpresidential, and beneath the office he holds. Read the rest of this entry »

Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

Libertarianism always sounds great on the pages of Reason magazine, or in position papers put out by the Cato Institute. Or in dorm rooms filled with 19-year-old pot-smokers who just want the freedom to live their lives without interference from the fuzz, man.

Privatize everything and get government out of our lives! Everything can be handled via private contracts, freely entered into by rational actors. Sewers? Let developers build their own! Roads? Make them for-profit operations funded by user fees! Why, I bet, you could even privatize fire protection!

Burn one down, dude.

There are some things that sound absolutely fantastic in theory. Time travel is like that. Physicists believe you could actually travel through time if you could only travel many multiples faster than the speed of light. Dude! Let’s go! The only problem you’ll have on your way to 2110, where you seek to find out if the Lions manage to win a Super Bowl at any point in the next 100 years, is that if you actually go as fast as the theory requires, you will instantly set yourself on fire and shoot every molecule in your body flying clear across to the other side of the galaxy.

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