You think National Security is useless. Thankfully others believed otherwise after we were hit.
In case you were too young or have forgotten, September 10, 2001 was another fine day in America. We were working our way out of a recession, and lower taxes (the John F. Kennedy Solution) was implemented to spur growth.
September 11, 2001 was a sobering moment. Three planes hit their targets, with a fourth aimed at the White House... so the theory goes. In the 911 aftermath we had anthrax attacks on law makers, we had been told there could be scores of sleeper cells waiting to smack us like ticking bombs. We had the kooks of the world watching.
They nailed our financial center and we went from emerging from a recession to emerging from an unprecedented attack on our financial center and emerging from a recession. Raising taxes was not in our interest... not short or long term. See JFK's speech to the Economic Club of NY, 1962.
Hans Blix testified and revealed Saddam could have had hundreds upon hundreds of pounds of WMD. Some weapons grade.
He also stated Saddam wasn't cooperating. This after 12-years.
David Kay stated before the US Armed Services Committee, that we have been lucky, because the chance of a terrorist hooking up with someone in Saddam's regime and passing along WMD was a possibility, and that we may not be as lucky as we think. As 911 proved, the bastards are patient.
Out of it we accomplished a few things:
1. Saddam wasn't a threat any longer.
2. We closed down a Nuke Black Market.
3. Libya was out of the Nuke business.
4. Pakistan sided with the US.
LOL... Social engineering. Your buddy Obvious Child supports it.
Enjoy!
I don't know where this can be found in The Constitution. Taxes as a form of social policy.
Land of the Free, home of the Brave?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Try Mommy Dearest Strikes again... Hey... you smoke too much. Hey... not s much alcohol. WATCH the salt asshole!
(But the Lib wants them drugs legalized. Can't get enuf, of that funky stuff. Of course... it's harmless)
Jumbo Doobie Icon.
You believe in what? Trickle Up?
I'll tell ya, when someone goes to find funding for a project, to hire staff and take a risk... they don't go to the poor to get the funds. If the government hasn't created a compelling environment... those angels are dead. They're looking at other less hostile harbors to put their money... and let it trickle down.
ROTFLOL... Oh yes they can.
It's a beautiful thing too. Wonderful. That's why Gerhard Schroeder's proposal of a EU-wide tax rate would have been a disaster for the continent. A lot of wealth would have moved out of the EU.
When Obi and other leftists think they're going to soak it to the rich, they find ways to hide their coin... 100% correct Lib Avenger... 100% correct. Just ask John Edwards... he's a master example.
Townhall - The Edwards loophole
And that money doesn't trickle anywhere, if they park it. It sits and grows slowly, or perhaps quickly in another more friendly environment... as the rich are Free to Choose.
Reduce the punitive taxes and watch the cash flow, jobs be created and the government's coffers fill.
JFK knew this. What happened to modern democrats?
That is why we should scrap the Tax Code.
We can take 7% of the economy and create a document that screws even further with our health care delivery system, but we cannot scrap the tax code and provide something very simple... so simple a moron could figure it out? Strange.
Your buddy Obvious Child put it this way... he agreed:
People are ignorant, they shouldn't have to be an accountant to fill out their tax forms, or require hand holders to get their taxes done, wasting countless hours and (m)(b)illions filling out their tax form.
They scrapped the tax codes in many former Communist countries, but we... America and Americans can't have Congress work their way through a new and simple manner of the public paying taxes? Absolute Hogwash.
Even German economist Paul Kirchoff and others sought to reduce their tax forms to the size of a beer mat. But the press, fueled by their neidgesellschaft (Jealousy Society) went ballistic. Their time will come too one day.
Hell.. even Carter agreed.
“Our Income Tax system is a disgrace to the human race.”
—Jimmy Carter, 1976
What poison.
Americans are philanthropic to a fault, and when government steals their cash and have less to give, they destroy that critical and traditional American fabric.
"Not to trust people with money"?
Bizarro.
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