“hankr” posts at CSP Gun Talk’s Political Page:
Forget where I read it, but I’ve seen it compared to taking some water out of the deep end of the swimming pool and dumping it in the shallow end to make the pool deeper.
That’s the reality of the proposed “stimulus package” being run through Congress: The Federal government taxes me twenty thousand dollars, then they graciously cut me a check for $800 and tell me to go out and “stimulate” the economy.
Here’s a clue, folks: If businesses and individuals would benefit from getting tax dollars back, then don’t take them in the first stinkin’ place.
Basically what they gubbermint is admitting is that the current tax rate is too high and it’s stifling the economy.
Not that they’ll change anything, though…
And here’s just how twisted their (ahem) thinking about it is:
Watch the early stages of Bush’s last State of the Union address. He called for making the Bush tax cuts permanent. When he did, the Dimocrat side of the aisle sat on their asses and many of them frowned while the Republican side of the aisle stood up, cheered, and clapped. ‘Twould appear the Dimocrats think tax rates ought to be higher than they are now, and millions of middle-income people should be returned to the tax rolls who were removed by those tax cuts.
Yet the House voted 385-35, with almost no debate, in favor of a “rebate” of taxes, which means the House, by an 11-1 margin, thinks the economy would be better if the peepull hadn’t been taxed so hard.
Methinks speaking with their asses shows their future intent, while voting on the chamber floor was just voting to buy some votes with our money.
Cynical, you say? Not necessarily. Show me I’m wrong.
Some rebate, its income and will have to be declared on our tax forms next year. Grumbles
The cursed “rich,” who pay most of the taxes will be funding the rebates as well.
my thought exactly.