Many folks were outraged yesterday at Barack Obama once again claiming himself to be the heir apparent to the Reagan Legacy. I too was stricken with the sudden urge to vomit. Then I realized something, and I almost have the feeling that I am somewhat alone with this particular epiphany.
If you think about it, perhaps he is taking up the Reagan belief in a Flat Tax. Barack Obama feels as though out of a matter of fairness, all Americans should be taxed at the same tax rate. What we disagree on is the percentage of that rate, common ground at last. I too feel that it is wrong that 47% of Americans pay no federal tax on their incomes. I just happen to feel that the government would get by just swell by confiscating say, 10% of our wages, and say 10% of corporate net profit, zero from passive incomes, 10% from capital gains. Barack Obama is right, albeit accidentally, that secretaries should pay the same rates as their bosses, pro athletes, entertainers, truck drivers, and any other profession I do not have ample space to write out within the confines of this post. Welcome to the flat tax universe Mr. President.
Barack Obama has spent his entire adult, and as far as I know, his adolescent life, denigrating the legacy of Ronald Reagan. That this little man’s accomplishment would not even compare favorably to the most insignificant footnotes on the life of Ronald Reagan, he managed to squeeze out two autobiographies before the age of 50. Some have labeled this as proof of his narcissism, but I myself merely believe it to be wishful thinking. Most of the Conservatives in this country find it appalling that President Obama is working so hard to wrap himself in the cloak of Ronald Reagan, correctly positing the idea that Barack Obama is not even fit to stand in the same room where Reagan’s name is even mentioned, but I disagree slightly. I find it to be a confidence builder in the idea that come November, he will be fired by the American People.
Why would a man spent his entire life telling any one who would listen that our greatest President was an evil man who’s policies were responsible for the destruction of our urban everything, and then just when two elections were heating up, wrap himself in that very flag that he so eloquently tried to burn. The reason of course is plain to see. It is because he correctly believes that if the American People will identify him as Reaganesque, he stands a greater chance of being reelected. This is a sure sign of desperation, and it will work exactly as well in 2012 as it did in 2010. The American People are really a smart bunch, and while it is possible to trick them into drinking a swallow of snake oil, getting them to take that second swig is an entirely different matter.
Putting aside for the moment Obama’s sudden affinity for the flat tax, which a lot of us on the political right happen to agree with, I have often been interested in what Ronald Reagan would actually have to say to our 44th President. Since Barack Obama was nothing more than a pimple afflicting the world of academia when Reagan was the leader of the free world, putting an end to the Soviet Union and winning the Cold War, creating the greatest economic boom our nation has ever known, ending the Johnson-Nixon-Carter Malaise, building our missile defense shield, and a plethora of other accomplishments too numerous to mention here, no such debate exists for real. What I did find was a string of debate quotes that Reagan had said while debating another Presidential candidate who really is a role model for our current chief executive.
Just for fun, let’s watch the entire final debate between Jimmy Carter, (the man who is really the model for our current POTUS,) and Ronald Reagan.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Flat as in 70%
This dolt will babble anything, knowing that the media will take it as a sign of genius.
This is a bit of a stretch. The outrage is that Buffet paid a lower tax rate than is secretary.
Obama does not want everybody to be taxed at the same rate. He wants the rich to be taxed at a higher rate. What he wants is the ultimate eradication of the distinction between income and capital gains tax rates. His Buffet rule is a catchy label for increasing capital gains tax.
The fairness argument is the fundamental argument for the progressive tax which is the fundamental redistributionist power-tool in the anti-capitalists’ box. The economic principle misapplied to bolstering it is the marginal declining utility of money (the rich won’t feel the high tax). Equality is the political principle which first destroys the economy, then democracy.
“Soak the rich” has now become entrenched as a moral imperative. Once the stupid becomes good, there is no turning back. This election will decide whether a return to rationality is possible.
@ pat:
But will the voters buy what he is selling? That is the question, and I am not reassured by the polls. Polls tend to over-sample Democrats, but I am shocked that his approval rating is above 40%. He has been God-awful. Of course, it doesn’t help that the Stupid Party doesn’t attack him the way that they should. Politics is War, but the GOP still wants to act like it is a Marquis of Queensbury Rules boxing match.
But but but… flyover… Reagan was like evil and stuff… why would Obama (pig piss be upon him) want people to think his is teh Evil?
@ Iron Fist:
the ABC/Washington Post poll was particularly interesting. It showed Obama 6 points ahead of Romney. However the internals showed Obama behind in every major category. That is not sustainable even with data manipulation designed to infer that people just love Obama and hence we should also.
@ Iron Fist:
Obama is symbol to many Americans. he’s an political messiah who has come to take away America’s sins.
@ pat:
Wait, are you saying the MSM would intentionally lie and mislead us?
For decades, the bleat from the Left has been “you can’t legislate morality” yet a progressive tax code attempts to do exactly that, in the Left’s stilted view of “morality”.
For better or worse, we have a wildly successful venture capitalist as our candidate. I say ram unapologetic capitalism down their throat -- let’s have “the conversation” regarding the relative values of capitalism and socialism not only to the rich, but to the common man. Americans are far more in tune with free market capitalism than Democrats would have you believe.
This is an eminently winnable argument.
http://freebeacon.com/obama-family-tax-shelter/
FAIR SHARE FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR MOOCHELLE n’ ME !
@ Overlook:
@ waldensianspirit:
O.K., so it’s definitely a stretch. But like the woman who agrees to have sex for $1 Million, we’ve established already what she is, now we’re just haggling over price. Maybe he would like to see the flat rate of 70%, and we would like 1%, but now we’re just haggling over price. FAIRNESS!
yahoo…
OT: If someone is dumb enough to do this I think the police are doing them a favor by shooting their ass off.
Proud Mary in Ukrainian I believe.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Well said. Envy is the kryptonite of the American free market system -- there is a good reason why it’s one of the “seven deadly sins”. For our entire history, the rich have lived in relative harmony with the poor because a degree of financial success is available to all. Legality is one thing, but once you assign monetary limitations on wealth “fairness”, the system quickly erodes.
Oooo, fun. Don’t know this site though.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2012/04/obama-and-hillary/#
@ waldensianspirit:
Exactly.
I believe that Hannity played the clip, but it
could have been Limbaugh.
BHO was recounting how his Columbia classmates were
asking him about his plans to be a Community Organizer.
He said,”I am not really sure what it is, but I can
fight the evil that Reagan & his minions do.”
@ RIX:
I must have missed that, but how can someone plan to be something, not knowing what that thing is, and then say what can be done in that capacity?
As Robot from Lost In Space used to say, “That does not compute”.
One month old, but when you are rapidly losing your tax revenue, the government can’t get paid.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/13/exodus-california-tax-revenue-plunges-by-22
@ yenta-fada:
Perhaps they can start taxing people on other states? /
Oh, wait! They will. They will ask for a federal bailout.
What the Obama Administration really means is that we should pay a flat tax of 100 percent.
@ Canoe Convoy:
Haven’t they been implying just that all along with their attitude of all income belonging to the grabbermint?
Us peasants should be happy with what they decide they allow us to keep.
citizen_q wrote:
Because the guy is a congenital liar. I don’t believe
him for a minute.
He worked for an ACORN subsidiary & I am sure that he was
recruited,
I would bet that he was identified as a Leftist radical
who could be part of the club
citizen_q wrote:
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don’t take it all.
‘Cause I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
citizen_q wrote:
It is hard to believe, but yes, I think they want it ALL. Not kidding.
@ yenta-fada:
However, like Islam, the Communist parasite will kill the host if allowed to.
brookly red wrote:
The Beatles sounded pretty conservative with those lyrics, didn’t they? What we call “conservative” today, is yesteryear’s moderation -- that song was written when “pop stars” weren’t political tools of the Left.
MacDuff wrote:
@ brookly red: Oh I hate when i do that, sorry.
well liberals do tent to change their tune when it’s their money in question
Orrin Hatch is so mad that he’s being challenged, he told NPR??
“Those people…”
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@ yenta-fada:
OT -- Oh, Canada:(
Two years for a kiddie fondler????
And he’s appealing????????
@ Bumr50:
One week a few years ago, I wasn’t paying attention, and ZAP Gay marriage was legal in Ontario. (we gots priorities)/