Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Neal Boortz is noticing something he’s actually been noticing for awhile.
President TOTUS’ approval rating is continuing to slide downward downward downward…since about the beginning of 2010 the number has been within a stone’s throw of the percentage of voters who pay absolutely no income taxes whatsoever. Now, at 47%, all perceptible difference between the two quotients, is gone. The margin-of-error is certainly well beyond whatever difference remains.
Perhaps this is Holy One’s bedrock — the threshold beneath of which any further sinking is a logical impossibility. And maybe this is why politicians choose to become democrats; you give away money to people that you took from other people, take the credit for it as if it came out of your own wallet. How & why do people & did people ever fall for this? I dunno. But anyway…your “bedrock” altitude ends up way in the high forties, as in, when you’re screwing up all over the place and everyone knows it, that’s where you end up.
Contrasted with the politician who intones, and acts out, the dictum that “Robin Hood” government is just-plain-wrong. He has to perform, or else his “bedrock” is about half as much, somewhere around twenty-two.
Giveaway-politics is the refuge of politicians who know their policies suck ass. And it seems to me that, generation by generation, it’s working better and better.
Update: Intentionally or not, blogger friend Gerard provides a link to the perfect graphic at iOwnTheWorld.com.
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We need to get the dumb masses to realize”tax the rich” is just a way of paying tax second hand:tax the grocer his customers can afford it,tax the landlord his customers can afford it,tax Walmart $100,000 ,100,000 people pay a dollar more to shop.These people who pay no income tax aren’t living tax free they’re still paying for their gov’t services.
- kermitt | 04/12/2010 @ 09:03I seem to recall on that survey that while a large number of the people may not be paying income tax, they still feel we’re over-taxed.
In other words, even his “bed-rock” supporters at 47% aren’t exactly granite. More like a limestone base. And with a VAT in the wings, consider that a strong flood to wash away even more support.
- darury | 04/12/2010 @ 11:48The situation will change when enough people figure out that “soaking the rich” ultimately hurts everyone.
I’ve never understood this. The same people who insist that there is no food chain in nature – only a food “web” where everything affects everything else (global warming has many effects, for instance)…don’t seem to realize that the same model of interconnected-ness also applies to taxation and other types of economic policies.
Eventually, people will figure out that not only are “the rich” not who they think they are, but that these “rich” aren’t going to just sit there and take it. They’ll move their assets somewhere out of reach – either offshore or into tax shelters.
- cylarz | 04/12/2010 @ 13:43