Don’t Let Real Numbers Get In The Way Of Good Rhetoric.
What do we always here from the Left? “If you cut taxes, we won’t have as much money for government programs”! Well, that’s certainly a fear you’d hoist on any Democrat or RINO these days isn’t it? Perish the thought that you can’t take more of my money for unconstitutional projects. Well, sometimes even logic gets in the way of their argument, as noted today in the USA Today in this quote from Sen. Bill Frist.
"Many people in Washington have long known a dirty little secret about tax-cut measures: When done right, they actually result in more money for the government.
Ever since the Senate approved the last major tax relief bill, in 2003, revenues have increased every year. In 2004, they went up 5.5%. Last year, they rose 14.5%, the largest increase in nearly 25 years.
Total government collections, in fact, increased more after President Bush's 2003 tax cuts than they did after President Clinton's 1994 tax hikes.”
Hat tip to RightWingNews for that quote.
So, if we cut taxes, we potentially can get more money? Yes, Virginia, it looks that way and there may even be a Santa Claus.
The New York Times And Curbing Government “Freedoms”
Most times when we speak of freedoms, we’re speaking of the freedoms of the individual. Well, the New York Times generally doesn’t mean that, being a collectivist Marxist paper. Trust me, that’s not just rhetoric. They are collectivist and very Marxist. But, I digress.
In Tuesday’s issue, as relayed by Newsbusters, the headline on the front page read “States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes.” Only in the Times would they view the abusive use of eminent domain by local authorities as a “right” to be curbed. Well, not only in the Times, but most assuredly in the Times. It speaks to the large number of states attempting to provide some sort of stopgap in the wake of the Kelo decision. Municipalities see this as carte blanch to enact their various “urban renewal” programs, often disregarding or ignoring the fact that their citizens live and work in the areas they’re going to trip over.
This is merely a followup to their original clarion call immediately following the Kelo decision, in which they jubliantly noted that "finally" the property rights issue was being dealt with to their satisfaction. This mentality, that the needs of the "public" are served by sacrificing the freedoms of the individual runs fairly strong and deep among the Left. Of course, they tend to be rather hypocritically selective when it comes down to property rights or gun rights than say Fourth Amendment or "privacy" rights.
It has always struck me as somewhat odd that any political group so heavily entrenched in our society could see rights made up out of whole cloth in the Constitution that deserved federal "Big Brother" protection while flatly ignoring rights clearly enumerated by the same document. Such is the way of the collectivist, though, and their continued championing of the bureaucracy over the individual should leave no question as to where their loyalties, and their bias lies.
What do we always here from the Left? “If you cut taxes, we won’t have as much money for government programs”! Well, that’s certainly a fear you’d hoist on any Democrat or RINO these days isn’t it? Perish the thought that you can’t take more of my money for unconstitutional projects. Well, sometimes even logic gets in the way of their argument, as noted today in the USA Today in this quote from Sen. Bill Frist.
"Many people in Washington have long known a dirty little secret about tax-cut measures: When done right, they actually result in more money for the government.
Ever since the Senate approved the last major tax relief bill, in 2003, revenues have increased every year. In 2004, they went up 5.5%. Last year, they rose 14.5%, the largest increase in nearly 25 years.
Total government collections, in fact, increased more after President Bush's 2003 tax cuts than they did after President Clinton's 1994 tax hikes.”
Hat tip to RightWingNews for that quote.
So, if we cut taxes, we potentially can get more money? Yes, Virginia, it looks that way and there may even be a Santa Claus.
The New York Times And Curbing Government “Freedoms”
Most times when we speak of freedoms, we’re speaking of the freedoms of the individual. Well, the New York Times generally doesn’t mean that, being a collectivist Marxist paper. Trust me, that’s not just rhetoric. They are collectivist and very Marxist. But, I digress.
In Tuesday’s issue, as relayed by Newsbusters, the headline on the front page read “States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes.” Only in the Times would they view the abusive use of eminent domain by local authorities as a “right” to be curbed. Well, not only in the Times, but most assuredly in the Times. It speaks to the large number of states attempting to provide some sort of stopgap in the wake of the Kelo decision. Municipalities see this as carte blanch to enact their various “urban renewal” programs, often disregarding or ignoring the fact that their citizens live and work in the areas they’re going to trip over.
This is merely a followup to their original clarion call immediately following the Kelo decision, in which they jubliantly noted that "finally" the property rights issue was being dealt with to their satisfaction. This mentality, that the needs of the "public" are served by sacrificing the freedoms of the individual runs fairly strong and deep among the Left. Of course, they tend to be rather hypocritically selective when it comes down to property rights or gun rights than say Fourth Amendment or "privacy" rights.
It has always struck me as somewhat odd that any political group so heavily entrenched in our society could see rights made up out of whole cloth in the Constitution that deserved federal "Big Brother" protection while flatly ignoring rights clearly enumerated by the same document. Such is the way of the collectivist, though, and their continued championing of the bureaucracy over the individual should leave no question as to where their loyalties, and their bias lies.
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