The Fort Wayne Fishwrap publishes a letter or two
everyday now wherein some Liberal whines about the now passed tax law. Here's but one example:
The headline in the Dec. 17 Journal Gazette informs me that
the GOP sees its tax cut as a fiasco averted. In truth, the bill is the
fiasco. While this legislation has been rushed through Congress in a manner
designed to avoid as much reasonable scrutiny as possible, every credible
analysis has concluded it is a plan that will certainly continue and accelerate
the already-outrageous transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to
large corporations and the wealthy (which has been in progress for several
decades). Far from paying for itself, it will blow an additional $1
trillion or $1.5 trillion hole in the federal budget. Already, House
Speaker Paul Ryan has a special gleam in his eye as he contemplates the
opportunity he soon may have in his grasp to realize his life's dream of
shredding what social safety net we have.
At this same moment, we also learn that the United Nations
has dispatched a fact-finding expert, Philip Aston, to probe the already
grotesque levels of poverty being experienced by nearly 41 million of our
citizens. For those with the stomach to read his preliminary report, the
details can be found at
www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur.
In this season when we are celebrating the coming of the one who said that how
we treat “the least of these” is the measure by which he will judge how we have
treated him, we can only conclude that he will find us entirely as ready as the
ancient authorities to have him re-crucified.
But do not despair. Our GOP friends reassure us they have
made it safe for us to say “Merry Christmas,” as if we had ever stopped doing
so. Even Charles Dickens could just not make this stuff up.
Elaine Fazzaro
Fort Wayne
Lex sent this - way too long to be published - response:
Fazzaro starts with the idiotic premise that the new
tax law will “continue and accelerate the
already-outrageous transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to
large corporations…” Ah explain how lowering the tax rate for a corporation takes
or transfers ANYTHING from anybody – particularly the poor who supposedly have
nothing to take. The point of lower taxes is that less is being taken by the government
from the people who earn it. There is no transfer.
Next, Fazzaro complains that the GOP tax bill is blowing
a trillion dollar hole in the federal budget.
Fair enough, but a quick search of the JG archives did not produce any
letter from Fazzaro complaining about President Obama’s doubling of the
national debt on such ingenious ideas as Solyndra, non-existent shovel ready
stimulus jobs, cash for clunkers, Obamaphones, socializing healthcare to name a
few.
That tells me that Fazzaro and her Lib pals are fine
when the government is confiscating the peoples’ earnings for ineffective harebrained
programs that double the debt, but cries foul when the debt goes up (Which it
won’t.) when government returns a small portion of its ill-gotten gains to the
people they stole it from.
I wonder why it never occurs to Liberals to ask the
government to do with less money rather than the people the government steals money
from.
Fazzaro talks of a UN “expert” coming in to
investigate poverty in the US. The UN
investigating the US is like Jimmy the philosopher Comey investigating Hillary
Clinton’s too numerous to mention crimes in this regard, the report condemning
the US is already written.
Fazzaro then makes some references to Dickens. Given the time of the year I suppose she was
alluding to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
Apparently Fazzaro never read Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Prior to
his dreams, Scrooge was all for the government taking care of the poor. That was the basis for his refusal to donate
to charity.
Instead of supporting personal philanthropy, he argues that the
public entitlements, that Liberals so love, are the solution: “Are there no
prisons? And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation? The Treadmill
and the Poor Law are in full vigor, then?” After hearing these are still
active, he notes, “I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they
cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”
It’s only after his dreams that Scrooge sees the
light and the way of personal philanthropy over ill-conceived government
programs that serve mostly to worsen the problem.
Fazzaro can donate the entirety of her disposable income
to helping the poor. Instead she insists
that the government take her neighbor’s earnings do what she apparently will
not do herself. By insisting on high
taxes to fund government programs whether they be the prisons,
workhouses, treadmills and the Poor Law of Dicken’s age, or the modern version of
government enslavement of the poor known as Democrat style welfare, it is you Mz.
Fazzaro who is acting like Scrooge.
While we’re at debunking literary myths, it’s total
Liberal hogwash that Jesus was homeless at his birth. An onerous centralized government forced Mary
and Joseph to leave their home to travel to Joseph’s place of birth in order to
get an accurate counting of the population for tax purposes. During and because of that government-forced journey, Mary and Joseph could find “no room at the inn” and were left to room in a
stable. They were not homeless until a
greedy government forced them out of their home so that it could then gouge
more taxes dollars from them.
Also, Robin Hood did not steal from the rich. He
stole from an overbearing central government whose heavy and unfair tax burden went
to support an arrogant out of touch royalty, not unlike the current Washington,
D.C. crowd where a congresswoman steals another woman’s seat on a United flight
then calls the woman a racist for complaining about it.
All of these stories show the dangers of heavy-handed
centralized governments and that the old adage, “That government is best which
governs the least” remains true today.
Liberals what a lovely ignorant bunch.
New Year’s resolution: Shorter posts.
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