Tax Time, Obama’s Spendthrift Regime and More

From The Patriot Post Chronicle – Vol. 09 No. 15

THE FOUNDATION

“[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” –Benjamin Franklin

INSIGHT

“When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.” –President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” –President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.” –British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” –American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

THE GIPPER

“People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they’re angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind’s problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers’ dollars at them.” ++ “Government can’t tax things like businesses or corporations, it can only tax people. When it says it’s going to ‘make business pay,’ it is really saying it is going to make business help it collect taxes.” ++

“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.” ++ “Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.” ++ “Raising taxes will slow economic growth, reduce production, and destroy future jobs, making it more difficult for those without jobs to find them and more likely that those who now have jobs could lose them.” ++ “My friends, history is clear: Lower tax rates mean greater freedom, and whenever we lower the tax rates, our entire nation is better off.” –Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

UPRIGHT

“I say let’s have Election Day on tax day. Let’s get what we’re paying for. Sign the check — for the full amount — and write in your preferred candidates on the back of the same check. Abracadabra … smaller government, here we come.” –columnist Jonah Goldberg

“Rampant redistribution of wealth by government is now the norm. So is this: It inflames government’s natural rapaciousness and subverts the rule of law.” –columnist George Will

“Inflation also means that all the talk about how higher taxes will be confined to ‘the rich’ is nonsense. Inflation is a hidden tax that takes away the value of money held by everyone at every income level.” –economist Thomas Sowell

“[W]e need to return to a taxation system similar to the one established by our Founding Fathers. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation.” –columnist Chuck Norris

“Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed ‘tea parties’ — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org. So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.” –author Glenn Harlan Reynolds

“[I]s there any limit to this administration’s intentions to interfere and perhaps control large swaths of our economy? … That’s the real message of the homegrown Tea Party revolt against bailout nation and the higher taxes, deficits, and debt being used to finance it. Folks are trying to tell Washington on Tax Day, April 15, that enough is enough. They can’t take it anymore.” –economist Larry Kudlow

“The cry at these tea parties should be ‘not a penny more’ until governments get their houses in order, just as we must do. Most people have been forced to reduce spending during the recession, but not the federal government, and likely not the government in your home state.” –columnist Cal Thomas

“President Obama’s own budget numbers show that Social Security this year will take in $654 billion in payroll taxes and dole out $662 billion in benefits and expenses — a negative cash flow of $8 billion. Uh oh.” –columnist Stephen Moore

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Today is tax day, and across America, taxpayers are holding tea parties to protest out-of-control government spending. Their concern is no tempest in a teapot. The tax burden on American families is growing increasingly heavy. According to the Tax Foundation, tax-freedom day came on April 13 this year. That day marks the point of the year when taxpayers have earned enough money to pay off their federal, state and local taxes. It takes Americans about 3 1/2 months of labor to cover their tax obligation. That time will increase as government continues to grow. President Obama’s current budget proposal admits to plans to raise taxes by almost $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) estimates that hundreds of thousands will turn out to protest this tax servitude. … Today’s tea parties are carrying on a noble American tradition of protesting unfair taxation. Mike Allen, co-author of ‘A Patriot’s History of the United States,’ explained to us: ‘America was born out of hatred of a strong centralized government. The Boston Tea Party (and a half dozen other concurrent tea parties from New York City to Charleston) protested government subsidies to create monopoly status for a corporation, the East India Company. From that point onward, tax protests have peppered American history.’ The first tea party to protest taxes occurred on Dec. 16, 1773, when patriots called the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. Other colonials followed the lead of Sam Adams and his fellow Bostonians by tossing tea into the sea. Today’s tea-party movement is building steam because taxpayers are steamed. As ATR’s anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist explained … ‘These are real people with real lives taking the time and effort to do this in reaction not to a tax increase yesterday, but in reaction to too much spending that will lead to tax increases and inflation years from now.’ These modern Mohawks are angry because they fear the future is being poured down the drain. This kind of activism is our cup of tea.” —The Washington Times

DEZINFORMATSIA

This week’s “Leftmedia Buster” Award: “David Shuster, filling in for MSNBC loose-cannon Keith Olbermann on his April 13 broadcast, and his writers probably thought they were pretty clever when they pieced an item denigrating the tax protests by using the [dirty] term ‘teabagging.'” –Jeff Poor of NewsBusters (to read the text of Shuster’s puerile dirty jokes if you dare, click here — Warning: Graphic puns.)

Doesn’t get it: “Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people.” –New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on the tea parties taking place across the country today

Poor (but accurate) choice of words: [I]t’s fair to give the new kids on the block a chance to get their learner’s permits first.” –CBS’s Katie Couric on the Obama administration

Capitalism? Oh my!: “I’m worried if you think if [Goldman-Sachs paying back its federal loan early is] a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?” –NBC’s Matt Lauer to Christina Romer on Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers

Twisted blame: “That weekend tragedy [of the murder of three Pittsburgh police officers] involves a man who allegedly shot and killed three police officers in cold blood. Why? Because he was convinced, after no doubt watching Fox News and listening to right-wing radio, that quote, ‘Our rights were being infringed upon.'” –CNN’s Rick Sanchez

Oddly enough!: “If anything, the recent shootings have inspired more Americans to buy guns, recession or no recession. In fact, all over the country they are stocking up on as many pistols, rifles, and shotguns as possible before the Obama Administration bans or taxes them. … Interestingly, however, violent crime rates have at the same time been falling in Los Angeles, New York and other big American cities. The experts are at loss as to explain why this should be happening.” –London Times Los Angeles correspondent Chris Ayres

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: “Thaw Seems Near for U.S., Cuba” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Breaking News From 1980: “Thousands Demonstrate Against Georgian President” –The New York Times

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Cows With Gas: India’s Global Warming Problem” –Time.com

News You Can Use: “Obama Not the New Messiah: Archbishop” –ABC News Web site (Australia)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Fewer Disney Employees Whistle While They Work” –CNN.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Tooting his own horn: “What is most remarkable about this effort … isn’t just the size of our investment or the number of projects we’re investing in. It’s how quickly, efficiently and responsibly those investments have been made. Because these projects are getting approved more quickly than we thought … and because these projects are costing less than we thought, we can utter a sentence rarely heard in recent years: This government effort is coming in ahead of schedule and under budget.” –President Barack Obama praising his stimulus plan, which is actually doing little but costing money

File under “Wait and See”: “We are grateful for what you will do, and as long as I’m in the White House, you are going to get the support that you need.” –Barack Obama to American troops in Iraq

The BIG Lie: “No one’s told me to back off. I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment.” –Attorney General Eric Holder, who has called for a renewed ban on so-called “assault weapons”

Premature victory celebration: “The ‘hard right’ that still believes you know ‘traditional values’ arguments … all that is over.” –Sen. Chuck Schumer

Willingly deceived: “We’ve been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we’ve been told. …[Fidel Castro is] one of the most amazing human beings I’ve ever met.” –Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) on his recent trip to Cuba with the Congressional Black Caucus

Foreign law: “I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law. Why shouldn’t we look to the wisdom of a judge from abroad with at least as much ease as we would read a law review article written by a professor?” –Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg **”If we’re relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge. And yet he’s playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.” –Chief Justice Roberts

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the “Taxing Your Intelligence” Department: “I do think there’s a variety of kinds of strains in the tax code … it suggests that the tax code will have to get visited at some point, preferably sooner rather than later.” –Larry Summers, Director of the Regime Obama National Economic Council

Guns are scary: “Well, you know, saying the government is growing in size is a lot different than saying they are going to come knock on your door and take your guns, that democracy in America is on the wane, and that we’re going to turn into a socialist or Marxist or fascist, depending on what week it is with Glenn Beck. That’s quite a leap, and again, that’s incredibly irresponsible. We have never seen, you know, a television news outfit, you know, sort of exploit these kind of fears before, and they’re doing it on a daily basis. And again they’re basically mainstreaming this militia — this militia movement and this militia rhetoric.” –Eric Boehlert of the radical left Media Matters for America

Non Compos Mentis: “I would rank [Obama], way at the top, in the pantheon of presidential huggers.” –NBC News presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

A defining moment: “We never kill people. We are Muslims. We are marines, coastguards — not pirates.” –a Somali pirate who claims they detest being called pirates for engaging in piracy

SHORT CUTS

“The Treasury Department predicted better-than-expected tax revenues Sunday when tax returns arrive this week. Their optimism is based on the recent uptick in the economy. Today is National Tax Day, or as the Obama Cabinet calls it, Casual Citizenship Day.” –comedian Argus Hamilton

“In piracy, as in most other endeavors, there are a few ‘first principles’ which must be followed. If you want to be a successful pirate in the Gulf of Aden, then the Principal Principle is: Take all the hostages you want just make sure none of them are Americans.” –political analyst Rich Galen

“Last week Obama told the planet on his Dixie Chick America Sucks Euro-Tour that ol’ bigheaded America is not and has never been a Christian nation. … America’s not a Christian nation? Well, it’s not a Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim (yet) or Tai Chi nation. I know Barack is auguring for the USA to become an Obamanation, but heretofore from what I’ve read regarding our founders’ beliefs and original intent for this experiment in self-government, this Republic has a massive intentional Judeo-Christian bent to it and not a religiously neutral one. Stevie Wonder can see that.” –columnist Doug Giles

Jay Leno:

[It’s] April 15th [and] taxes are due, but people who work for President Obama are busy doing their taxes for 1998, ’99, 2000.

[A]ccording to a survey on how Americans will spend their tax returns, 48 percent say they’ll pay debts, 39 percent will save it, 27 percent will use it for everyday expenses, 11 percent will make a major purchase, and another 11 percent will use it for vacation. OK, that adds up to 136 percent. OK, there’s the problem right there!

Last night I had a new drink: the Navy Seals shot. It’s three shots and boom! You’re done.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Somali pirates were all untrained teenagers with heavy weapons — which we call rap stars in this country.

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