California Republican John Campbell yesterday introduced in the House his “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act,” which would amend the tax code to allow individuals to make voluntary donations to the federal government above their normal tax liability. The bill would place a new line on IRS tax forms to make this easy.
Mr. Campbell says he has heard the “cries” of those wealthy Americans – Mrs. Clinton, Warren Buffett, Barbra Streisand – who reject the lower tax rates passed in 2001 and 2003 and complain that they and their fellow rich don’t pay enough. “It’s a great injustice that citizens wishing to fulfill their dream of paying more taxes cannot simply check a box on their 1040 form to make a donation,” he says. His bill would give liberals a chance to salve their consciences without having to raise taxes on millions of Americans who already feel overtaxed as it is.
My simple predictions:
1. The Democrats will never let this bill see any light of day. it will be holed up in some House subcommittee undergoing “review” till this Congress is history. It would be a most dangerous thing for Democrats to actually give people the freedom to make their own choices - especially about how much of their hard earned money goes to the government. Allowing people to choose this essential hold over their lives would absolutely destroy the whole premise of what the Democrats stand for. They are about controlling people - not giving them choice.
2. Why is Warren Buffett giving most of his money to Bill Gates’s charity instead of just handing it over to the government? He wants rich people to pay more in taxes - why is he not giving the earnings of his lifetime to some twits who would spend in all in less than a month?
3. As a thought experiment - just how much money would actually come in if this box were on the 1040 form making it extremely simple to allow good progressives to put their money where their considerable mouths are? The Treasury got about $2.9 million in contributions last year. The US governnment is scheduled to spend $3 trillion dollars in FY2008. My calculations show that as spending $5,707,762 a minute. Yes, every minute of every day of every week of every month of the whole year. So that lousy three million in contributions would only fund the government for 30 seconds odd. Do you think they would get enough in “contributions” to fund 2 minutes? I certainly don’t think they would. Maybe, just maybe they might get enough for 1 minute.
4. And don’t forget - you are not paying enough in taxes. The Obamamessiah says so. The Hildebeast says so. The Great and Wonderous Algore certainly says so. But would they give half their estates directly to the governement?
What is it about liberals? Beat them with a stick and they just turn around and lick your boots:
The San Diego City Council voted 5-2 to honor the American Civil Liberties Union with a special day of recognition, even after the organization sued the city and collected $900,000 in taxpayer funds.
The plan was offered by council member Toni Atkins, who said she stood “by the resolution” and commended “the ACLU for the work they do.”
In San Diego, the ACLU cost the city’s taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by raising the fight over the Mt. Soledad cross and continued the battle even after 76 percent of the voters supported maintaining the cross where it was built.
A bipartisan team of council members, Tony Young and Brian Maienschein, opposed the resolution, and Jim Madaffer did not vote. The other five members – Kavin Faulconer, Atkins, Donne Frye, Ben Hueso and Scott Peters – went along.
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.
At the center of the new ring is Kristin “Billie” Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a rough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list.
Davis’ alleged multimillion-dollar empire was smashed by city vice cops as she made plans to skip town. Prosecutors say she netted some $2 million last year by pimping out ladies of the night for as much as $1,000 an hour through four Web sites.
Only a thousand bucks an hour? Its good to know that he wasn’t spending his whole children’s college fund on the high-priced whores. I wonder if this will cause a second wave of “prostitution is a victimless crime” and “what difference does it make if he cheats” stories in the press.
Over the weekend, Melanie Morgan broke the story in West Chester, Pa. about a young female blogger who was assaulted while doing her job documenting both the pro-troop and anti-war dueling rallies.
‘Skye’ at MidnightBlue.com was slapped twice by a member of the anti-war movement, a peace terrorist, while video-taping an exchange between both sides.
She was terribly traumatized by the incident, and did not release the video right away.
It’s out there now.
And it’s shocking.
A grown man slapping a woman.
Is this how they want to bring ‘peace’ to the world, by hitting females until they agree with them?
Let’s see, 18 designs and $200,000 already spent. Projected total cost $1 million. And this is for one wheelchair access ramp? Only in the Democratic Communist People’s Republic of San Francisco:
San Francisco should not have to spend $1 million on a wheelchair ramp in the Board of Supervisors chambers to assure equal access for people with disabilities.
There must be less expensive options than the 10-foot ramp that has been through 18 designs and consumed more than $200,000 in planning.
What I’m most shocked about is that Pravda of the Left Coast is saying that this is not a good use of tax money. And why must this million bucks be spent? The Lifetime Employment for Lawyers Act (also known as the ADA). One of the supervisors is a paraplegic and there are only steps up to the podium.
I have an idea for these guys. Hire someone at $80K a year who’s whole job is to stand around and haul any disabled people up and down the steps. Have him buy some plywood and 2×4’s and in his spare time build the fracking ramp. And even with salary, benefits, expenses, vacation time, materials, and everything else you would still be able to get the job done for less than $150K. Even if it took a whole year.
Or just have him haul the disabled up and down and you have a decade’s worth of disability access without changing anything else.
Hey, you self-righteous progressives who chat about blood for oil. How many homeless people could have been fed with the $200,000 already spent on the 18 different designs? Would a million dollars get clean needles and condoms to the entire city for a year?
White men could be legally blocked from getting jobs under new anti-discrimination laws being considered by Labour.
Employers would be able to give jobs to women or ethnic minority candidates in preference to other applicants, under the plans unveiled by equalities minister Harriet Harman.
If two candidates were equally qualified for a position, employers would be able to reject the white person or the man in favour of a black person or a woman.
Its so 1984 that the ministry is “Equalities”. Equalities ministry will implement rules so that its much more important about the shape of your genitals or the color of your skin. However, I find it very sad that the response of the Conservatives is to discriminate but base it on pay and the shape of your genitals - not the color of your skin:
Theresa May, Conservative spokesperson for women, said: “One of the real problems facing women today is the gender pay gap.
“If Harriet Harman really wants to help women in the work place she should strengthen the existing laws on equal pay. We have recently put forward proposals to do just that and our proposals would have a real impact on women’s lives.”
And none of this should be any surprise. Why just last year the “Equalities” minister wanted to:
Last year Miss Harman called for all-black shortlists in constituencies with high ethnic-minority populations.
She said that unless action was taken, it would take decades for the make-up of the Commons to accurately reflect the make-up of British society.
But the plan immediately came under attack from ethnic minority MPs on the Labour backbenchers - saying black people should be selected on merit.
Democrat Kwame Kilpatrick - the Mayor of Detroit who is accused of helping his aide (who he was having an affair with) perpetrate fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars - brings out the last desperate cry of the oppressed:
In the past 30 days, I’ve been called a n—– more than any time in my entire life. In the past three days I have received more death threats than I have in my entire administration. I’ve heard these words before, but I’ve never heard people say them about my wife and children.
I don’t believe that a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children.
This unethical, illegal lynch-mob mentality has to stop.
P.S. is there any mention in this story that the Mayor is a Democrat?
Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.
In Brattleboro, the vote was 2,012-1,795. In Marlboro, which held a town meeting on the issue, it was 43-25 with three abstentions.
Actually if I were advising the President I’d schedule a trip to both of those towns and just see if their police really wanted to take on the Secret Service. Or if the gutless turds who “voted” on this were willing to put their own butts on the line in that cause.
How many hippies are willing to get their geriatric heads broken now? 1968 was a long long time ago.
A happy conservative living in Monument, Colorado. Living an extremely good life through the wonderful influence of my wife, my family, and a country that has continued to provide me with opportunities to excel.
