*trying to post less*

Boortz explained a lot of my thoughts on taxes/tax cuts today pretty well. I know there are those who disagree, but I think there are plenty who would agree with what he says. Don't worry about references to "The Poodle"--just insert "John Kerry" and move on. Anyhoo...

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HANDING TAX CUTS TO THE WEALTHY The Poodle is really ratcheting-up the class warfare game this week. He's using the "fortunate / less-fortunate" gambit, and is referring to tax cuts as "give-aways." If you've listened to me for any length of time at all you already know my reaction to this "fortunate / less-fortunate" nonsense. Liberals love to refer to economic failures as the "less fortunate" and to those who succeed as "fortunate." This is how they discount the role of the individual in achieving success or wallowing in failure. When someone ignores their education, fails to develop a work ethic, and develops a history of poor decision making resulting in a life on the economic margins they are referred to as the "less fortunate." In other words, they just weren't as lucky as their friends and neighbors. There's no personal fault involved. They can't be blamed for their lot in life. They're just the victims of bad luck. And the rich? Their success has nothing whatsoever to do with attention to education, a willingness to work hard and careful decision-making. No ... just as with the poor, the rich can take no personal credit for their success. They were just lucky. This is the way the left absolves all individuals of either blame or credit for their situation. In fact, it's part of their effort to destroy the very concept of individuality. Look at it this way. If a person becomes wealthy through good fortune or luck then it can't be said that the personal actually earned his or her wealth. And ... since they didn't earn it, there's really nothing all that wrong with taking with taking some of that wealth away and giving it to some other folks who, after all, just weren't lucky. This is where The Poodle's "give-away" language comes from. A tax cut is just a "give-away" to the rich. That evil rich person didn't earn that money anyway. It just fell into his hands through luck. The worthy liberal politicians are just trying to even the odds by taking that money and giving it to people who just weren't as lucky, then along comes an evil conservative politician who takes that money and tries to give it to rich people ... rich people who, after all, have plenty already. This approach presumes that all wealth is owned by the government and that it is the government, rather than the marketplace, which decides where that wealth is to be distributed. So ... if you believe that all wealth is owned by government, then John Kerry is your man. If you believe that wealth is created by and then owned by the individual, then Kerry and his Democratic Party are your mortal enemies.

Did I mention I'm buying a house? Woohoo! Now I get favorable tax treatment for the thousands of dollars I'll be paying the bank in interest!