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Higher Taxes Patriotic?

According to Joe Biden it is.  In a speech Thursday Biden claimed that paying higher taxes was the patriotic thing to do.  It's time to jump in and help America get out of the rut.

It's time to jump in?  Are you kidding me?

The top one 1% in this country already pay 39% of all federal income taxes.  The top 25% pay 86% and the top 50% pay 97% of all income taxes.

I think the rich are paying thier fair share.  I think it's time for the poor to pay their fair share. It's time for the lower 50% to actually start paying some taxes and start contributing to society. Such rhetoric won't get anyone elected these days.  So to remedy this let's pass a law that says if you don't pay taxes you have not earned the right to vote.

That sounds plenty fair to me.

All Americans whether you are poor, rich, white or black should pay their share of the tax burden in this country.  Look at this way:  50% of the country are helping to make decisions in a government they don't contribute to.

Obama's plan to punish the wealthy with higher taxes will only serve to widen this gap even further.  Since when did success become a crime in this country?  This is socialism.  We are taking resources from the "priviledged few" and parsing it out to everyone else who did nothing to earn it.  Sure punish the rich, we say.  They have plenty.  Great idea just better hope you aren't successful, the target will be on you then.
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Race War in America if Obama loses?

Fatimah Ali is at it again.  I just finished reading her latest column'Race War' in America in which she makes the claim that the race war she wrote about in her last column is already here. She cites several examples of hateful emails she received after the publication of her first column and like most liberals she makes the stereotypical claim that all "right-wingers" are hate filled bigots who don't want to vote for Barack Obama because he is a black man.

This is why Obama must be defeated.  He is dangerous.  Any criticism of the man and you are called a racist.  When it looks as if he might lose the election, they claim a "race war" is brewing in America.  

I disagree with Obama because he is liberal democrat in favor of raising my taxes and extending the reach and control of the federal government.  He will never put spending under control and the deficit will continue to grow larger.  I disagree with Obama because he is dangerous to this country, not because he is black but because he is a Marxist.

Conservative Republicans don't hate blacks.  We love them as fellow Americans and we honor their sacrifices for this country.  Without their help in the Revolutionary War and in the War Between the States this country would not be the great shining city on the hill that it is today.

There will always be the ignorant fools who spout racial hatred.  They are angry and they just look to target their anger at anyone who is different from them.  Those who lump Conservatives into this group are just as ignorant as those who spout racial hatred.  Conservatives are as diverse as America itself.  We see America as the greatest land of all time, we don't hate it because of the sins of its past. America, like all human beings, has the right of redemption. Americans fight injustice where ever we find it, even if we find it here.

So stop the racial rhetoric.  The racism in this country, in large part, falls into the lap of the African-American community.  Remember the Reverand Jeremiah Wright?  How about James David Manning?  

African Americans are angry in this country because their voice isn't heard. Every four years politicians promise them more and more and then never deliver.  Perhaps that is why they think Obama will be different.  You have pinned your hopes and dreams on the Democratic Party and for the forty years they were in power they did nothing.  Reverand Jackson and Sharpton still complain about the same problems in the black community they complained about forty years ago.  

Did doing nothing for forty years really earn them your vote?  Maybe its time for the black community to try a different route, maybe this time you will see a different result.
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America's Next Great Depression

They are calling it "Black Sunday" the day when Merrill Lynch is bought out by Bank of America for $50 billion (1/2 what it was worth last year) and Lehman Brothers files Chapter 11.  This time the government refused to bail out the two companies as they did with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last week and Bear Stearn only a few months ago.  Finally it would seem that the Federal Government is willing to let the free market make its own corrections.  

Good for them!  Finally glad you made it to the party along with the rest of us.

Obama claims that this is part of the failed policies of the past.  Anyone else as tired of hearing that as I am?

The financial crisis in this country has nothign to do with the government.  Sure the government has a role but these companies are failing because of bad loans and poor real estate investments. 

America will feel the sting of these losses but as always this great country will arise and stand stronger than we were before if we allow the free market to correct itself and learn from its mistakes.
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