GOP - Greeds Own Party
June 23rd, 2006 | by Paul Merda |While the GOP attempts to cut, more like gut, the Estate Tax, they fail to give a raise to the poorest workers in the country by raising the minimum wage, afflicting the afflicted. While the move to kill the Estate Tax cut was killed in the Senate, the House is up to no good, making the comfortable more comfortable while saddling the Nation with more debt. When will Americans wake up and realize that the GOP does NOT have their best interests in mind, only the interests of the wealthy…
3 Responses to “GOP - Greeds Own Party”
By G on Jun 23, 2006 | Reply
GOP and DNC aside, the Esate tax is just flat out robbery by the government. Everything you own, you’ve paid taxes on. Period.
When you die, if you leave that stuff to your children or spouse, it is stuff you’ve already paid taxes on. THe government making your children pay taxes on stuff that you’ve already paid a sales tax on, and you paid with income you paid an income tax on… (getting the idea here?), is the government trying to get yet more money from you, and it is stealing!
I dont care if it’s rich or poor, young or old, the Estate tax is an attempt by the government to get their hands on money that is not theirs. It is wealth re-distribution, and that is not legal, it is something based on Marxist priciples.
By Paul Merda on Jun 23, 2006 | Reply
In some ways I think you are right G, but the fact of the matter is, Capitalism needs just a touch of socialism to work right. What’s so horrible about taking some (not all BTW) of a dead guys money and using it to better our society? These wealthy folk’s children will still get plenty no doubt and they also have had the advantage of living in a wealthy household which has given them better contacts and better education the rest of us don’t have access to. I do not feel the least bit bad about taking a little more from the wealthy so we can take a lot less from the poor.
The primary difference between a liberal and a conservative is that a liberal will gladly give up a few more dollars so that their countrymen might do better while a conservative pretty much says fuck’em, it all about me…
By G on Jun 23, 2006 | Reply
Paul:
That is not true, a liberal will gladly take SOMEONE ELSE’s money and use it to better the world under their personal conviction of what “better” is.
The dead guy worked very hard to accumulate wealth. Your comment about “what’s so horrible about taking some of a dead guys money and using it to better our society?” shows exactly what is so wrong with it:
That’s stealing, and if you were to try that on your own, they’d lock you up in prison, but we are supposed to accept that the government can do it? Better yet, where do you draw the line of “some” of his money? If the estate tax is not cut back, HALF of the estate passed on to the survivors will be taken by the government. HALF!
That is highway robbery at it’s worst. Like I said in my first post too: Look, they taxed the income used to accumulate the wealth, then they taxed the things bought with the income. Now they want to tax it again because it’s going from one owner to his/her descendants?
The idea that our government has any right to decide how much money they take from you illegally, and then decide how to use that money in some fallacy of “bettering society” is just ludicrous. The same government that squanders millions in Iraq, millions on studies of armpit smells, and millions on State Department dinners is the government I’m supposed to willingly give up half my dad’s house to so they can “better society”?
Give me a break, you’re not thinking this through, you’re just buying the party line of sticking it to the rich like some kind of Robin Hood or something. That money they steal will only serve the purpose of allowing more stupid government programs and agencies that waste our tax money.
Lastly: Capitalism is the only economic design that is not a man-made or an artificially implemented system. I’d bet if left unfettered, it’d do much better than the socialistic model we’ve moved to. Supply and Demand was, is, and always will be the most powerful economic force in the world, dont ever let someone lie to you differently. It ensures that rationing of scant resources is done the most fairly, and that competition will always thrive. It’s only when we start messing with it and placing rules around it that things get ugly.