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From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Is it fair?
I'll answer for him, since he always thinks he knows what I think.
(I think...)
"It is all W's fault!..."
;-)
- sjl
"Paul Nelson" wrote in message
news:mailman.1285.1328725755.29960.cpf0000@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
Unohoo is always railing about fairness. Let's see his answers to these
questions:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577206980068367936.ht
ml?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
http://tinyurl.com/774nb3l
"Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal
income taxes, and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax?
Is it fair that the richest 10% of Americans shoulder a higher share of
their country's income-tax burden than do the richest 10% in every other
industrialized nation, including socialist Sweden?
Is it fair that American corporations pay the highest statutory corporate
tax rate of all other industrialized nations but Japan, which cuts its rate
on April 1?
Is it fair that President Obama sends his two daughters to elite private
schools that are safer, better-run, and produce higher test scores than
public schools in Washington, D.C.-but millions of other families across
America are denied that free choice and forced to send their kids to rotten
schools?
Is it fair that Americans who build a family business, hire workers,
reinvest and save their money-paying a lifetime of federal, state and local
taxes often climbing into the millions of dollars-must then pay an
additional estate tax of 35% (and as much as 55% when the law changes next
year) when they die, rather than passing that money onto their loved ones?
Is it fair that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former Democratic Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel
and other leading Democrats who preach tax fairness underpaid their own
taxes?
Is it fair that after the first three years of Obamanomics, the poor are
poorer, the poverty rate is rising, the middle class is losing income, and
some 5.5 million fewer Americans have jobs today than in 2007?
Is it fair that roughly 88% of political contributions from supposedly
impartial network television reporters, producers and other employees in
2008 went to Democrats?
Is it fair that the three counties with America's highest median family
income just happen to be located in the Washington, D.C., metro area?
Is it fair that wind, solar and ethanol producers get billions of dollars of
subsidies each year and pay virtually no taxes, while the oil and gas
industry-which provides at least 10 times as much energy-pays tens of
billions of dollars of taxes while the president complains that it is
"subsidized"?
Is it fair that those who work full-time jobs (and sometimes more) to make
ends meet have to pay taxes to support up to 99 weeks of unemployment
benefits for those who don't work?
Is it fair that those who took out responsible mortgages and pay them each
month have to see their tax dollars used to subsidize those who acted
recklessly, greedily and sometimes deceitfully in taking out mortgages they
now can't afford to repay?
Is it fair that thousands of workers won't have jobs because the president
sided with environmentalists and blocked the shovel-ready Keystone XL oil
pipeline?
Is it fair that some of Mr. Obama's largest campaign contributors received
federal loan guarantees on their investments in renewable energy projects
that went bust?
Is it fair that federal employees receive benefits that are nearly 50%
higher than those of private-sector workers whose taxes pay their salaries,
according to the Congressional Budget Office?
Is it fair that soon almost half the federal budget will take income from
young working people and redistribute it to old non-working people, even
though those over age 65 are already among the wealthiest Americans?
Is it fair that in 27 states workers can be compelled to join a union in
order to keep their jobs?
Is it fair that nearly four out of 10 American households now pay no federal
income tax at all-a number that has risen every year under Mr. Obama?
Is it fair that Boeing, a private company, was threatened by a federal
agency when it sought to add jobs in a right-to-work state rather than in a
forced-union state?
Is it fair that our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids-who never voted
for Mr. Obama-will have to pay off the $5 trillion of debt accumulated over
the past four years, without any benefits to them?"
Good questions.
Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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