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People’s champion Bernie Sanders fights for your right to work harder for less money

Bernie Sanders uses terms like “fairness” and “for the children” while he seeks to children with trillions more in debt. At the same time, he seeks to punish those whom have the audacity to create jobs that diminish dependence on government.

Bernie Sanders is a socialist from Vermont. What is so special about that, you might ask? Nothing. But, unlike all but one other person from Vermont, Bernie is also a United States Senator. This makes his whole existence as an authoritarian all the more troubling to you, us and everybody else in the country.

Bernie, you see, has the power to steal from some citizens, give those ill-gotten gains to other citizens and then collect votes for being the middleman. And that’s exactly what Sanders has been up to this week.

Sanders is good at what he does. He’s been at it a long time and has mastered the one thing necessary to sustain this sort of scam – the art of double speak.

For that reason Sanders uses terminology like “fairness” and “for the children” while he seeks to saddle those children with trillions more in debt. At the same time, he seeks to punish those whom have the audacity to create jobs that diminish dependence on government.

Make no mistake, Bernie Sanders has no love for working families. As a socialist there is no greater obstacle to his goals than a strong middle class. Unless maybe it’s a strong upper class.

Here’s Bernie asking the rich “when is enough enough?” Mayhaps he should ask the same question of public sector unions instead.

By the way, this video is from CSPAN-2. CSPAN is awesome. It is like ESPN for smart people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0SH0a4V5yg

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

The incredible shrinking mandate: Obama abdicates, Bill Clinton takes over White House

An incredible event occurred at the White House on Friday. President Obama meekly excused himself from his own press briefing and former President Clinton took over, fielding questions for more than half an hour.

An incredible event occurred at the White House on Friday. President Obama meekly excused himself from his own press briefing and former President Clinton took over, fielding questions for more than half an hour.

Had some emergency caused President Obama to rush away? Had the red phone rung? Was North Korea bombing South Korea again? Had Iran launched an attack on Israel?

No. None of those things. He left because he was late for a party and didn’t want to piss off the First Lady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODwyYpDmqY

As the Telegraph UK describes the exceedingly odd situation:

But after a few opening comments, Mr Obama made clear he had to leave and excused himself, saying that his wife, Michelle, expected his presence at one of the many parties that presidents host during the month of December.

“I’ve been keeping the First Lady waiting,” he said.

Mr Clinton, who clearly had some time on his hands, responded: “I don’t want to make her mad. Please go.”

“And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way you, you miserable excuse for a President,” he thought to himself.

Every time we think this President can’t make himself look any weaker, he surprises us. We’d say man up, but that seems unlikely with this President.

Source: Telegraph UK

Mary Landrieu says the tax deal is unprecedented moral corruption

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, a woman who knows a thing or two about moral corruption, is not happy with President Obama’s tax deal with the Republicans. Not happy at all.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, a woman who knows a thing or two about moral corruption, is not happy with President Obama’s tax deal with the Republicans. Not happy at all.

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Moral corruption authority Mary Landrieu criticizes President Obama’s moral corruption

The Huffington Post reports:

Extending the tax cuts for those making more than a million dollars a year is borderline immoral, Landrieu charged. “I’m going to argue forcefully for the nonsensicalness and the almost, you know, moral corruptness of that particular policy,” said Landrieu, walking into a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats. “This is beyond politics. This is about justice and doing what’s right.”

She also knows a thing or two, apparently, about making up new words. Nonsensicalness? But Landrieu’s neologism was just a warm-up. She continued:

… “It’s what I’m calling the Obama-McConnell plan. We’re going to borrow $46 billion from the poor, from the middle class, from businesses of all sizes basically to give a tax cut to families in America today, that despite the recession, are making over a million dollars. I mean, this is unprecedented. Unprecedented. I want to repeat that,” she said. Landrieu added, however, that she had yet to make a decision on the final package.

Please take note that Landrieu is upset because this is unprecedented. In the early months of the Obama administration, Democrats crowed with pride that every single action the President took was unprecedented. Obama signs an executive order? Unprecedented. Obama appoints someone to office? Unprecedented. Obama eats breakfast? Unprecedented.

The fact that Democrats now think his moral corruption is unprecedented is, well, unprecedented.

Here’s a clip from an old Star Trek episode that was absolutely prescient. It featured a character named Landru who sounds almost as liberal as his homophonic doppelgänger Mary Landrieu.

Source: The Huffington Post

Andrea Mitchell runs into tax rate buzz saw: Judd Gregg

Poor Andrea Mitchell. She must be sorry she ever interviewed Senator Judd Gregg. Instead of playing nice and playing along with her liberal line of questioning, the outgoing Republican Senator taught Mitchell a thing or two about taxes.

Poor Andrea Mitchell. She must be sorry she ever interviewed Senator Judd Gregg. Instead of playing nice and playing along with her liberal line of questioning, the outgoing Republican Senator taught Mitchell a thing or two about taxes.

Gregg: We don’t believe that if you go out and earn a living that the money that you earn is our money. That’s your money.
Mitchell: But…but…but…

Good lord, man, has this woman really slept with Alan Greenspan all these years without learning anything but the Butterfly Maneuver?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkdJAjaceIM

When progressives attack: New commercial uses Obama’s own words against him

So the Progressive Change Campaign Committee just put out a new TV commercial. It makes it pretty clear that President Obama broke his campaign promise about tax rates. And it does it by using his own words against him.

Progressives (don’t you hate that affectation?) are pissed that President Obama caved in on the Bush tax cuts.

So the Progressive Change Campaign Committee just put out a new TV commercial. It makes it pretty clear that President Obama broke his campaign promise about tax rates. And it does it by using his own words against him.

Don’t get us wrong – we’re glad the tax rates got extended, but we love watching The World’s Greatest Orator (yeah, he was still held that title when this speech was made) claiming that the Bush tax cuts “offend my conscience.”

Keith Olbermann is even angrier at Obama than he is at Republicans. Or maybe it’s the other way around.

As you watch this overbearing Olbermann clip, keep one thing in mind: Keith Olbermann is loyal to principles. But if you happen to forget it, don’t worry, because Keith will remind you.

Would you call this a meltdown? Pseudo-righteous indignation? Over the top smugness? Or all of the above?

As you watch this overbearing Olbermann clip, keep one thing in mind: Keith Olbermann is loyal to principles. But if you happen to forget it, don’t worry, because Keith will remind you.

Meet the Press guest John Kerry lectures us about paying taxes. (What? Charlie Rangel wasn’t available?)

Kerry is the last person who should be lecturing the American people on paying taxes, considering his embarrassing episode from July of this year when he got caught weaseling out of $500,000 in taxes on his new $7,000,000 yacht.

The media has been feeding us a non-stop parade of Democrats to stress the importance of the entitlement-funding class warfare they attempt to disguise as a tax increase.

For this purpose, Meet the Press host David Gregory brought on John Kerry.

Kerry is the last person who should be lecturing the American people on paying taxes, considering his embarrassing episode from July of this year when he got caught weaseling out of $500,000 in taxes on his new $7,000,000 yacht. To avoid his home state’s taxes, Kerry docked his new toy in neighboring Rhode Island. The ensuing public relations debacle caused Kerry to snap at reporters who questioned the dodge, and in the end, release a statement claiming he would dock in Massachusetts and pay his taxes. In other words, the light went on, the cockroach scurried. (Side note: According to many news sources, Kerry still hasn’t paid this tax. Gee, who’d have figured?)

Without a hint of irony this is the man David Gregory chose to lecture us on paying taxes.

And without a hint of journalistic integrity Gregory failed to ask Kerry about why he felt qualified to do so after getting busted avoiding his own.

Be sure to tune in next week, when David will welcome Bill Clinton to preach about the sanctity of marriage and monogamy.

– Written by Sonny Palermo

Dan Rather says Obama will face primary challenge if he caves on taxes, immediately followed by Obama caving on taxes

Dan Rather warned today on MSNBC that a deal to extend all of the current tax hikes would create a demand for a primary challenge to Barack Obama from the Left in 2012.

Oh, that colorful country boy Dan Rather. He’s just full of homespun homilies. Why, as he might say, “I’m full of what comes out of the south end of a northbound bull.”

HotAir.com described the situation pretty damn well:

Dan Rather warned today on MSNBC that a deal to extend all of the current tax hikes would create a demand for a primary challenge to Barack Obama from the Left in 2012. Big progressive contributors to the Democratic Party have already concluded that Obama won’t fight for his principles, Rather told the “Lean Forward” network, and that the Bush-era tax rates would be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Actually, Rather offers a more complicated down-homish colorful metaphor, but essentially says that the Left is so shocked, shocked! that this lifetime backbencher provides no leadership that they will actively recruit someone with those qualities for the 2012 cycle.

Of course, mere hours after Rather made this dire forecast, Obama caved on all the Republican demands for extensions of the Bush tax cuts and then poked his left wing supporters in the eye by proposing his own Social Security tax cut.

As Dan might say, “I’m feeling lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.”

H/T: HotAir.com

Liberal merry-go-round: People need unemployment benefits so they can pay their property taxes

Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown says people need their unemployment benefits so they’ll have enough money to pay their property taxes. In other words, “Let’s just take this money out of one pocket and put it in the other.”

Consider this video a demonstration of Democrat economic genius on full display.

Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown says people need their unemployment benefits so they’ll have enough money to pay their property taxes. In other words, “Let’s just take this money out of one pocket and put it in the other.”

Let us save you some pain. The quote comes at the 6:00 mark of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tJu9hwYB8

“The other reason to maintain unemployment benefits is all economics. Senator McCain, when he was candidate for President, his chief economic advisor said the best way to grow the economy – the best stimulus dollar you can spend – is unemployment insurance. Because when you put a dollar in a laid-off worker’s pocket from Lima, Ohio or Zanesville, Ohio she will spend it at the local grocery store, the local shoe store, pay her property tax, pay her gas bill, whatever. That money is recycled in the economy.”

Do not make the mistake of thinking Senator Brown simply misspoke. He has given variations of this speech numerous times on the floor of the Senate and always uses the “pay her property tax” line.

Sherrod Brown is, of course, a successful graduate of the Obama School of Economics, where they teach that it’s a rational use of taxpayer money to buy General Motors, order them to make electric cars, give money to General Electric so they can buy the electric cars from General Motors, and then announce that the whole shebang is a huge success.

Round and round the little ball goes and where it stops nobody knows. Well, actually, we do know where it stops – third world status for the United States.

Source: TheRightScoop.com

Back up the moving truck: Low-tax states to gain seats, high-tax states to lose them

We’re not going to get crazy like James Carville and predict 40 years of Republican rule, but let’s just say that the trend is not the liberal’s friend.

We’re not going to get crazy like James Carville and predict 40 years of Republican rule, but let’s just say that the trend is not the liberal’s friend.

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It's like the Beverly Hillbillies in reverse

The Washington Examiner details the relationship between democracy and demography:

Migration from high-tax states to states with lower taxes and less government spending will dramatically alter the composition of future Congresses, according to a study by Americans for Tax Reform

Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.

By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent.

The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with growing populations, ATR found. As a result, per capita government spending is also lower: $4,008 for states gaining congressional seats, $5,117 for states losing them.

And that’s the problem. Per capita spending goes crazy when politicians lose there capitas.

Source: Washington Examiner

New York cigarette tax leads to reduced consumption which leads to tax shortfall which leads to dumbfounded officials

The economic geniuses in New York raised cigarette taxes by 58%, which increased the price of pack of smokes in New York city to a remarkable $11.60. As you might expect, cigarette sales plunged by 27%.

When will they learn? The economic geniuses in New York raised cigarette taxes by 58%, which increased the price of pack of smokes in New York city to a remarkable $11.60.

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There's only one solution, New York: Lower the legal smoking age

As you might expect, cigarette sales plunged by 27%. As you also might expect, cigarette sales are up by more than 40% in neighboring states and Indian reservations.

The NY Post reports the “duh” details:

Sales of taxed cigarettes have plummeted a staggering 27 percent statewide since the highest cigarette tax in the nation took hold in July, a Post analysis has found…

“That’s what we warned would happen, and obviously it has come to fruition,” said James Calvin, of the New York Association of Convenience Stores.

“Every tax increase drives more smokers to that dark, shadowy, unregulated, unlicensed, untaxed side of the street. The whole policy is self-defeating.”

If the trend continues, the state could fall far short of the $260 million windfall Paterson expected from the 58 percent tax hike.

How do you solve the shortfall? Liberals would tell you the only solution is to raise taxes.

Source: New York Post

Deadbeat John Kerry still hasn’t paid the taxes on his
$7 million yacht

We’re pretty sure the state of Massachusetts would take cash, check, money order or credit card, but it’s been three months and deadbeat John Kerry still hasn’t paid the taxes on his $7,000,000 yacht.

We’re pretty sure the state of Massachusetts would take cash, check, money order or credit card, but it’s been three months and deadbeat John Kerry still hasn’t paid the taxes on his $7,000,000 yacht.

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John Kerry seems baffled by the concept of paying the taxes he expects others to pay

The Boston Herald has all the taxing details:

You may recall that Kerry lowered the flag and surrendered in July, agreeing to pony up more than $400,000 to cover state taxes on the toney tub. Mr. Teresa Heinz broke out the checkbook four days after the Track set off a furious tempest with our report that he had purchased the 76-foot floating palace and ported her in Rhode Island, thus depriving the commonwealth of its pound of flesh.

A spokesman for the state Department of Revenue confirmed that “a sales tax return was filed” by Kerry last summer to cover state taxes that would have been owed, had he kept the Isabel in his home state’s waters. But according to the Nantucket tax collector, he never paid any excise taxes to the town on the Isabel.

Penalties? Interest? We doubt it.

Because when you’re John Kerry, what’s good for thee is never good for me.

Source: Boston Herald

Good news! Now you can put part of the national debt on your credit card.

In case you don’t think the government takes enough of your money, they’ve come up with a simple way for you to give them more.

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Annual Fee $65, Monthly Interest $237, Monthly Payment $797, Getting Rid of this Administration Priceless

How’d we miss this story back in June?

In case you don’t think the government takes enough of your money, they’ve come up with a simple way for you to give them more.

Got a few extra bucks for Uncle Sam? Now the U.S. Treasury has made it easier to donate—via credit card. In January, the department’s Bureau of the Public Debt began to accept payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.

May we suggest that you apply for a Platinum card. You’re going to need it, because last we heard your share of the national debt was $43,000.

Source: Newsweek

Yes, maam! Barbara Boxer provides more evidence that she is the dumbest person in the United States Senate

Wolf Blitzer asks Barbara Boxer about her record on tax cuts and the California Democrat’s answer is so preposterous that the CNN host realizes he can’t just stand by and let her get away with it.

Wolf Blitzer asks Barbara Boxer about her record on tax cuts and the California Democrat’s answer is so preposterous that the CNN host realizes he can’t just stand by and let her get away with it.

And that’s when the fun begins. Boxer starts throwing out numbers, retracting numbers, correcting numbers, revising numbers, stuttering and stammering.

Good lord, this woman is IHateTheMedia.com’s senator. We’re doomed. Absolutely friggin’ doomed.

Chris Matthews has an epiphany. Or a stroke. We’re not sure which.

“Stop saying that giving people tax cuts is giving people money. It’s their money!” Chris Matthews?

“Stop saying that giving people tax cuts is giving people money. It’s their money!”

If this were a quiz and you had to guess what TV commentator said those words, Chris Matthews wouldn’t be in your first 100 guesses.

Was it a moment of clarity? A stroke? An attempt to begin repositioning himself as a conservative so he can move to Fox News after the election?

Got any other ideas?

A rose by any other name is probably a liberal ploy

Nancy Pelosi is currently calling for a vote on “The Obama Tax Cut’s” But, aren’t the Obama Tax Cut’s actually an extension of the old “Evil George Bush Tax Cuts?”

Taking credit for the success of the Iraqi war and the apparent success of the current campaign in Afghanistan (which, of course, was modeled after a Bush strategy that both Obama and Biden opposed) was apparently not enough. No, The Greatest President Who Ever Was and Ever Will Be is now taking credit for those tax cuts that he used to call irresponsible.

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Janet Napolitano is not a ugly lesbian Nazi. She's an appearance-challenged, alternate lifestyle, Democracy optional advocate

According to Fox News, Nancy Pelosi is currently calling for a vote on “The Obama Tax Cut’s.” Wait a minute. Aren’t the Obama Tax Cut’s actually an extension of the old “Evil George Bush Tax Cuts?” You know, just like the extension of the old Evil George Bush Patriot Act, which doesn’t impair anyone’s rights now that it is the “Glory to Obama Wondrous New Laws for Americans Who Do Not Cling To Their Guns Or Their Religion Super Duper Patriot Act.”

Fox News also reports that, “The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.”

Damn, those Liberals are good at renaming things.

Can’t wait to hear what they rename Freedom?

Source: Fox News here and here

John Kerry’s a big believer in tax cuts (especially when he gets the tax cut)

Don’t let Sugar Mama find out about this. John Kerry was for tax cuts for the rich before he was against them. Flip, meet flop.

Don’t let Sugar Mama find out about this. John Kerry was for tax cuts for the rich before he was against them.

Flip, meet flop.

The New York Post has the details:

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John Kerry made his money the old-fashioned way - by marrying a rich, unattractive widow

Last week, the member of the Senate Finance Committee told the Boston Globe, “Under no circumstances do I believe we should give a blanket extension to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans — it won’t fix our economy and it will add billions to the long-term structural deficit.”

But in a late July committee meeting, Kerry said he would support a one- to two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich, if it was part of a bill that also extended middle-class cuts for a longer period, according to person familiar with the situation.

As it happens, that is precisely an idea that committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana is floating, the person said.

Kerry spokeswomen declined to comment on whether he supported a limited extension.

For them in July. Against them in September. Definitely for them again on April 15.

Source: New York Post

Deadbeats in DC: Congressional employees owe millions in back taxes

Federal workers across the fruited plain owe more than $1 billion in back taxes. That’s bad enough. But now comes the news that congressional employees owe more than $9.3 million.

Federal workers across the fruited plain owe more than $1 billion in back taxes. That’s bad enough. But now comes the news that congressional employees owe more than $9.3 million.

The Washington Post has the deadbeat details:

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A fish rots from the head down: Tax cheat Tim Geithner apparently sets the tone for all of Washington

The debt among Hill employees has risen at a faster rate than the overall tax debt on the government’s books, according to Internal Revenue Service data. It comes at a time when some Republican members are pushing for the firings of government workers who owe the IRS and President Obama has urged a crackdown on delinquent government contractors.

The IRS information does not identify delinquent taxpayers by name, party affiliation or job title and does not indicate whether members of Congress are among the scofflaws. It shows that 638 employees, or about 4 percent, of the 18,000 Hill workers owe money.

The average unpaid tax bill is $12,787 among the Senate’s delinquent taxpayers and $15,498 among those working in the House.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does. Poke into any corner in Washington, DC and you’ll find deadbeats:

41 White House employees owe the government $831,055 in back taxes. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’ runs a department in which 463 employes owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one people working for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors owe $1,076,733. And Eric Holder’s Justice Department has a remarkable 1,971 employees who have stiffed the government for $14,350,152 in overdue taxes. Janet Napolitano, Director of Homeland Security, has 4,856 employees who owe the IRS $37,012,174.

Fact is, they all owe us an apology. With penalties and interest.

H/T: HotAir.com

John Boehner’s simple plan: (1) Cut spending, (2) Stop the tax hike, (3) Create jobs. Any questions?

Barack Obama claims that he hasn’t seen any plans from Republicans. How about this one from House Republican leader John Boehner.

Barack Obama claims that he hasn’t seen any plans from Republicans. How about this one from House Republican leader John Boehner.

The Ohio Republican told Good Morning America that both parties should work together to create jobs by cutting spending to 2008 levels and freezing all tax rates for two years.

“What I’d like to do is work on a bipartisan basis to do two things. First, instead of waiting until after the election to put together some big omnibus spending bill with a bunch of wasteful spending, why wouldn’t we do this? Why don’t we pass a bill this month at 2008 spending levels — before the TARP, before the bailouts, before the ‘stimulus’ — and let’s put some certainty in the economy. … Secondly, why wouldn’t we work together to make it clear that all current tax rates will be extended for the next two years? What that will do is help small businesses, who have no clue what the coming tax rates are going to be, and give them some certainty. If we’re able to do this together, I think we’ll show the American people that we understand what’s going on in the country and we’ll be able to get our economy moving again and get jobs growing in America.”



Of course, George Stephanopoulos looked at him like he had two heads. Which, of course, would be two more than the Democrats seem to have these days.

H/T: John Boehner

CNN Money lionizes the Elders of the Economy, whoever they are

Of course, everyone knows that the Obama administration doesn’t want to raise taxes. It’s just so alien (see the Battlestar Galactica connection?) to everything they believe in.

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Kara Thrace (callsign "Starbuck"), our favorite economist

The what? The who? We thought the Elders of the Economy were a group of aliens from the original Battlestar Galatica, but no.

Turns out that this newly-revered group includes “Alan Greenspan, David Stockman, former budget director in the Reagan White House, and former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Paul O’Neil” and any other economist or banker who’s ever come out in favor of higher taxes.

According to CNN Money, “Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was first and has taken the most extreme position, arguing that all of the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 should be allowed to expire.”

Of course, everyone knows that the Obama administration doesn’t want to raise taxes. It’s just so alien (see the Battlestar Galactica connection?) to everything they believe in. “The White House and most Democrats have argued for keeping the taxes cuts in place for most households, but letting them expire for those earnings more than $250,000, about 2% of the country.”

Yes, the Democrats HATE to raise taxes, but if Alan Greenspan says they must, well, then they simply must. Because everyone knows that they worship the former head of the Fed and are obligated to obey his every pronouncement.

Of course, the guys that Democrats now call “Elders of the Economy” are the same guys they were calling “sons of bitches” not too long ago. But all they had to do was mention raising taxes and they were instantaneously transformed into heroes of the Democratic party.

As Starbuck might say, “It sure seems like the Obama administration is all fraked up”

Source: CNN.com

Kerry says same thing about his yacht that he said about Vietnam: “Can I get out of here please?”

This is hilarious. The esteemed Senator John Kerry, the tax-dodging senior senator from Massachusetts, was mobbed by reporters who insisted on asking impertinent questions about his new $7,000,000 luxury yacht and why he hasn’t paid the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the pound of flesh he’s so quick to demand of the little people.

This is hilarious. The esteemed Senator John Kerry, the tax-dodging senior senator from Massachusetts, was mobbed by reporters who insisted on asking impertinent questions about his new $7,000,000 luxury yacht and why he hasn’t paid the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the pound of flesh he’s so quick to demand of the little people.

Looking like a cornered rat, he finally turned to his driver and spoke the immortal words he first uttered in Vietnam, “Can you get me out of here, please?”

The only thing missing was a flesh wound on the ass. And when we say “ass”, we are, of course, referring to the senior senator himself.

Tax-dodging John Kerry’s new $7,000,000 yacht was built overseas

The flotsam that was once John Kerry’s liberal reputation is washing away with every detail that comes out about his luxurious new $7,000,000 yacht. Now, at a time when New England shipyards are suffering depression-like conditions, Kerry had his yacht built in New Zealand.

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The very patriotic John Kerry flies the American flag on his New Zealand-built yacht

The flotsam that was once John Kerry’s liberal reputation is washing away with every detail that comes out about his luxurious new $7,000,000 yacht. Now, at a time when New England shipyards are suffering depression-like conditions, Kerry had his yacht built in New Zealand.

The Boston Herald, Kerry’s hometown newspaper, has the details:

“Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder,” said Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats. “If someone comes to build a $7 million boat that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boat building is such a critical component of our coastal economy.”

Gregory Egan, who owns the Crosby Yacht Yard in Osterville, said Bay State boat builders must feel cut adrift by Kerry as well.

“I’m confident that anything constructed in New Zealand could be constructed here in the state,” he said. “From a political perspective, it seems to me he could have thought twice about that one.”

News that Kerry was docking the 76-foot custom-built sloop in Newport, R.I., was first reported in the Herald Friday. Sources told the Herald the yacht cost $7 million, meaning Kerry would owe the state more than $500,000 in excise and sales taxes.

The Isabel has two VIP main cabins, a glossy teak interior and a wet bar and wine storage in the pilothouse. It is billed as a “departure from the norm in the opulent world of yachting” and designed to be piloted without a crew.

With the nation enduring a nasty economy, painful joblessness and extreme belt-tightening, word of the luxury yacht’s foreign construction – as Americans yearn for work – could create a political tempest for Kerry.

“The message is, ‘The American boat builders aren’t good enough, and the Massachusetts people aren’t good enough to maintain it.’ It’s just a bad message all around,” said Connecticut boater Steve Potter, who docks in Charlestown.

In Kerry’s defense, he did attempt to make it up to American ship builders last week by voting to extend their unemployment benefits.

Source: BostonHerald.com

Democrat congressman wants to put his hand deeper into your pocket (and we’re not talking about Barney Frank)

Rep. Pete Stark introduced H.R. 5783, the Investing in Our Future Act. My legislation would simply impose a small tax — of 0.005 percent — on these currency transactions. The money raised would be put toward investments in children, global health and climate change mitigation.

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Democrat Congressman Pete Stark, as in Stark raving lunatic

Traveling overseas? Then you’re going to need to exchange your American dollars into zlotys or bolivars or doubloons. And liberal Congressman Pete Stark sees that as opportunity to dig deeper into your pocket.

Here is how the left wing lunatic makes his case in The Hill:

Wealthy traders and big financial institutions make huge bets on the fluctuations in currency value, and they can make massive profits if their bets are correct. This type of speculation helped to worsen the recent financial crisis and serves no purpose other than to make a few people and institutions even richer.

Today, I introduced H.R. 5783, the Investing in Our Future Act. My legislation would simply impose a small tax — of 0.005 percent — on these currency transactions. The money raised would be put toward investments in children, global health and climate change mitigation.

Of course, what Stark doesn’t say is that the tax would also be felt by the average Joe taking a vacation overseas.

So with that in mind, we make this heartfelt appeal to anyone who knows Mr. Stark:

Please let the esteemed congressman know that there already is a tax on currency. We pay it through interest rates established by the Federal Reserve and through the inflation brought about by the hyper creation of fiat money.

While you’re at it could you also please inform him that if he is really so concerned with the children, perhaps he should work against the trillions of dollars in debt this congress and this President are assigning to them.

Now please remove your hand from my pocket, Congressman.

Source: TheHill.com

Obama then: “I absolutely reject the notion that the individual mandate is a tax.” Obama now: “I was lying.”

Obama insisted to George Stephanoplous back in May 2009 that the Obamacare individual mandate was not a tax. Now his administrations argues it is.

Remember this contentious interview President Obama did with George Stephanoplous back in May 2009? The President insisted that the individual mandate called for under ObamaCare was not a tax and Stephanopolous pulled out the dictionary definition of a tax.

Turns out Obama had his fingers crossed, because his administration has now gone to court to defend ObamaCare and the key to their defense is that the individual mandate is a tax.

The New York Times has the details of the deception:

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.

In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.

Congress can use its taxing power “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions” of the Constitution, the department said. For more than a century, it added, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can tax activities that it could not reach by using its power to regulate commerce.

Tax everyone! For everything! Tax ‘til the cows come home. Then tax the cows! And their milk! And the cartons it goes in! And then tax the trash you throw the cartons in! And then tax the tax!

Source: New York Times

Your tax dollars at work: U.S. spent $410,624 teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts

Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.

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Guys addicted to power spend your tax dollars studying guys addicted to cocaine

Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.

CNSnews.com has the addictive details:

The U.S. government has spent $410,625 to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts.

“Our clinical experience and pilot studies suggest that Integrative Meditation from Chinese medicine may help clients engage in treatment, reduce cravings/withdrawal symptoms, and increase treatment retention, which appear missed by a typical behavior therapy,” says the official description of the project published by the National Institutes of Health.

What they should really be studying is the idiotic spending in Washington, DC. That’s something that seems to be really addictive.

Source: CNSNews.com

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