Another #My2K Response: President Obama – Taxing The Rich Won’t Work
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, November 30, 2012, 8:14 AM
Ulysses S. Arn submitted this #My2K video in response to Barack Obama’s request.
This video covers a lot of ground. It is excellent.
President Obama, Taxing The Rich Won’t Work
The Reagan quote was a nice touch:
“We don’t have deficits because people are taxed too little. We have deficits because government spends too much.”
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Published November 29, 2012 at 8:01 pm - 131 Comments
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Economan commented:
Obama doesn’t care, his actions show that he is determined to destroy our economy. Nothing else makes sense.
tommy mc donnell commented:
we need to tax the rich(the politicans). you accomplish that by tax cuts. they are the ones that screwed up the economy not private citizens.
CR commented:
Another good video response but unfortunately it’s preaching to the choir. Facts, figures, common sense and logic don’t work on leftists. They only listen to their precious ‘feelings’ and they ‘feel’ that class warfare is the way to go. It’s a cultural problem so using reason to counter it is pointless.
Fans of this corrupt culture are just going to have to find out for themselves how destructive it is. All we can do is play hide-the-pickle with our assets and wait for the inevitable bottom. Sentiment will then sour and the culture will become unpopular, leading to a new culture which will be better, or worse. Go Galt and get out of the way, then watch as people get exactly what they’ve been asking for.
lizzy84 commented:
http://patterico.com/2012/11/30/obama-proposal-more-stimulus-spending-cuts-to-be-determined-in-the-future-sometime/
Cargosquid commented:
The voters put this guy in office. Those voters include millions of Republicans that didn’t vote for Romney.
Screw ‘em. Raise the taxes. Voters voted for more spending and more government. Its time to make Americans actually pay for what they want. Americans that want this stuff need to feel the pain.
Alan commented:
Of course it will work! The purpose of taxing the “rich” is to take money away from people that have it, nothing more.
Unreal commented:
WOW! The rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper, amazing to me that people keep drinking the poison. This is just the beginning of the end of America as we know it. Hope everyone is happy with their voting choice because now the glitz and glam is over, not even Jay Z will be able to make the president look good after we fall over the cliff.
Washington can not be fixed.
If the Head is rotten, then the body is rotten.
mark commented:
“Going over the cliff” is simply balancing the budget!! I do this on a monthly basis. It is sometimes painful. It is not the end. It is called responsibility. Balancing the budget is required by law. We can have debt but it is limited; also by law. The senate has not passed a budget in years. Is the law not enforceable?
Our government begins to make Chavez look respectable.
Jawkneemusic commented:
I was banned from twitter replying to these fools foolishness.
RickZ commented:
‘You’re being silly’ my @ss.
They want higher traxes, but aren’t willing to put their money where their vote is.
Reason # 1,756,137 why there will be blood spilled before 2016.
Cargosquid commented:
The “cliff” is a scam. The cliff was invented. The cliff is just a set of laws that were enacted last year. If the cliff is so bad, just pass ANOTHER law repealing the first one.
I say the GOP should agree to Obama’s tax. Send that up to the Senate..but don’t send anything else. Let the cliff “cuts” stand. Force the Senate to do some work and fix it.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
I say the GOP should agree to Obama’s tax.
You won’t be disappointed.
mundus civilitas commented:
This has been a difficult election season for Fox News. Among the most enduring media images of the last few days of the election are Karl Rove late on election night angrily denying that Ohio, and thus the presidency, had gone to President Obama, and Dick Morris only a few days before the election confidently predicting a Romney landslide. Morris later tried to explain away his mistake after the election by claiming he had done it to create enthusiasm among Republican voters. The incidents involving Rove and Morris, both of whom work as both commentators on Fox and political consultants to conservative clients, are obviously embarrassing for Fox, but also raise the question of whether the network has outlived its value, even to the Republican Party.
Because Fox generally reports news based on partisan talking points and ideological certainty rather than focusing on pesky things like facts, information and events, it has, in the past, been effective in encouraging misperceptions about President Obama’s background, nurturing the growth and development of the Tea Party movement and covering economic policy by referring to any spending by the government as socialism. These things have helped mobilize and misinform the right wing base of the Republican Party. Similarly, during the Bush administration, Fox helped increase support for the Gulf War by repeating White House positions on weapons of mass destruction, almost without question.
Over the last several years, this has been very helpful to the Republican Party, but during 2012, particularly in recent months, this has begun to change. Fox has now become a problem for the Republican Party because it keeps a far right base mobilized and angry making it hard for the party to move to the center, or increase its appeal as it must do to remain electorally competitive. For example, Bill O’Reilly’s explanation of why the Obama was reelected may, in fact, resonate, with the older and heavily white viewership of Fox, but it is precisely the wrong public message and messenger for the Party.
Moreover, while Fox helps the Republican Party when it slants its news coverage to the right, it damages the Party when its news coverage becomes too shoddy. A network that cannot get election night right because one of its star pundits simply refuses to accept defeat offers very little reason for potential viewers to watch it. Similarly a network whose pundits are so off in their election predictions will ultimately marginalize itself completely, as Fox is beginning to do.
One of the bigger challenges facing the Republican Party is that they are perceived as the, to phrase it nicely, less smart of the two major parties. The anti-science perspective, unwillingness to speak out against absurd sounding conspiracy theories, and even the attacks on Nate Silver, presumably because Silver did somewhat sophisticated math, have contributed to this and are damaging the party. It is no coincidence that the Obama campaign had a more sophisticated targeting and turnout operation and better statistical modeling. A party that refuses to take a firm stand in support of evolution or recognizing climate change is not going to draw too many people with advanced statistical training as advisors and consultants.
Fox contributes to that environment by creating a climate where partisan rantings of people like Dick Morris are indulged while criticism by serious people like Tom Ricks is shut down and attacked. There is no inevitable link between conservatism and stupidity, but one could be forgiven for coming to that conclusion while watching Fox News. As it is currently constructed, Fox News is going to bring in almost no swing voters in the coming years. It will more likely continue to repel them through poor analysis and rants that strike the precise tone the party should be trying to avoid.
It is in the interest of the Democrats, not the Republicans, for there to be a loud, extremist, heavily white faction in the Republican Party, constantly pushing that party rightward. One of the reasons Mitt Romney was so unable to pivot back to the center was due to the drumbeat at Fox which contributing to forcing him to the right during the primary season. Even after the primary season, when Fox became a big supporter for Romney, the rift between official editorial position and the political feelings of Fox viewers and hosts, was clear.
Unfortunately for the Republicans, while this is bad politics, it is good business for Fox. By positioning itself as the place where angry Republicans can go for their rhetorical red meat, Fox guarantees itself a sizable viewership, so the incentive for Fox to keep doing what it is doing is substantial, as is the potential damage to the Republican Party.
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