• Sen. Joe Biden believes that paying higher taxes is the patriotic duty of wealthier Americans. Do you agree?
• President Bush says the government will “continue to act” on the economy but members of his own party have doubts.
• A NY man is on trial for deliberately killing his girlfriend’s cat and faces two years in prison. Columnist Andrea Peyser thinks it’s a waste of money. Are animals entitled to the same rights as humans?
Greg,
I know a lot of small business owners who pay MORE than their fair share in taxes. The top wage earners pay MOST of the taxes in this country.
You do NOT rescue the economy by raising taxes on businesses. Plain and simple.
Alan what do you think happen to the other 8 lives i dont think that animals should have the same right as humans. By the way cat soup is great with a little soy sauce. My friend lee makes a killer cat stew, mmmmmm
Alan Colmes gets laughed at because he has to defend some very stupid arguments. He is not consistant on anything.
I have no idea what his core belief is other than dems are gods. He worships at the altar of George Soros.
Comment about Greg’s post:
Greg, Clinton didn’t balance the budget. He can’t. The replublican congress created the budget. It was one of Newt’s bullet points with his contract with America.
Clinton had to be dragged kicking and screaming to sign it.
Being patriotic is giving something to your country willingly.
Taxes is government taking from you, forcefully, if necessary.
Taxes have nothing to do with patrism. There are plenty of people how pay taxes who don’t care at all about the USA.
Joe Biden has been in Congress so long, he has totally lost it.
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Those that adamantly disagree with Alan on his show are probably just a little skittish. It looks like Republicans are just a little more fearful than Democrats… Good stuff.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424864,00.html
“The researchers also measured the intensity of the participants’ eye blinks in response to sudden, jarring noises.
Harder blinks are linked with a heightened state of fear, the researchers say.
Participants who scored high on the skin and blinking stress tests also tended to support military spending, warrantless searches, death penalty, the Patriot Act, obedience, patriotism, the Iraq War, school prayer and the concept of Biblical truth.
They tended to oppose pacifism, immigration, gun control, foreign aid, compromise, premarital sex, gay marriage, abortion rights and pornography.”
September 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
No
Yes
Yes
There straight and to the point answers to all your questions.
now let’s see if libs can follow it or if they sit there duuhhhhhhhhh
September 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
The radical right is all for “supporting” the troops, when it comes to flapping their gums, but when it’s time to start paying the bills they’re nowhere to be found.
Paying your tax bill is absolutely the patriotic duty of every American and they who benefit the most should absolutely pay the most.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Rocky,
Your a brainwashed leftist drone.
Cut spending
Cut spending
Cut Spending
September 18th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Great! It is settled. Since the top wage earners and business owners ALREADY pay the highest taxes and a LOT of people don’t pay any taxes, I guess we don’t need to raise them any higher.
I agree with that.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
No!! Just like I don’t agree that those who actually have Capital gains should pay more taxes.
The republican’s will-Hope they don’t listen to Bush though. He is a disater.
Yes-And I hope they broadcast what he did once he get’s in Prison- they should treat him well.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Liberal Rot, You may not support the war but you need to support the troops. You may not remember your freedom to flap your gums comes from soldiers like that. So, keep talking and no one will take liberals serious, not like they do now. If you don’t like the way america is ran and you love your democrats go to China where communism still lives because that’s all democrats are. Give People the Power and don’t give hand outs and they will do what’s right. I don’t mean to give the power to corperations i mean the people and let them spend and the ecomony will do fine.
Love,
Larry
September 18th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Larry said:
Liberal Rot, You may not support the war but you need to support the troops. You may not remember your freedom to flap your gums comes from soldiers like that
Who posted anything that even remotely sounded like they didn’t support the troops? Most every American I know, liberal or conservative, has a family member or someone they know who is in, has been in, or will be in Iraq. I don’t think there are too many people who don’t support the troops – unless you have a very odd definition of ’support’.
So what are you talking about? Who do you think doesn’t support the troops, and what makes you think that?
September 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Last night Karl, tonight Newt. Alan gets laughed off his own show. Priceless! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
September 18th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Larry Sinclair,
When have conservatives ever supported the troops?
Between lack of proper armor, Walter Reed, McCain voting against the GI bill and trashing every troop who gets in the way of Dear Leader, from savaging Spec. Thomas Wilson who complained that he and his comrades were rooting through junkyards to find improvised armor for their military vehicles to protect against bomb blasts and small-arms attacks, to calling Paul Hackett a “staff puke”, to trashing the service of McCain, Kerry, and Max Cleland.
Do people Actually take right wingers seriously now?
Will YOU go to Saudi Arabia or Dubai if Obama is running America? That where all the powerful have their friends to whom they are most loyal.
Most of the far right would be more comfortable there.
Give People the Power and don’t give hands to corporate welfare queens.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I want the Old Lefty Comment Generator software he uses
September 18th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I pay LOTS of taxes and I don’t mind (that much).
September 19th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Greetings, Alan. I’m just discovering your blog. I watch the TV show, though.
Alan, I wish you would fight back on the air. Hannity and Gingrich (as well as Rove and Dick Morris) openly mock you now… on your own show. They laugh at you. They talk over you. They insult you. (”Alan, you’re embarrassing yourself.”)
And you just take it.
You need to hit back hard. The next time Morris says “Don’t interrupt me,” you ask him, “Dick, are you still a whoremonger? You still spending money on prostitutes?”
I promise you, he will treat you with respect in the future.
The next time Rove accuses you of parroting DNC talking points, tell him: “Karl, the only reason you got hired by Fox News is to deliver Republican talking points.”
And why, oh why, didn’t you ridicule Hannity for his useless “interview” with Sarah Palin?
You will become a national hero, Alan… and a YouTube superstar… if you start snapping on those disrespectful jerks! Please please please… give this some thought.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Yes, animals are the same as humans lets elect a CAT president. My dog will vote McCain.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:34 am
“Your a brainwashed leftist drone.”
And you’re a brainwashed rightist drone.
“Cut spending”
And now you’re living in fantasy land.
“You may not support the war but you need to support the troops.”
If you’re such a big patriot and you’re 100% behind the troops then you should have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER paying more taxes to ensure that our service people get what they need and what they deserve.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:52 am
MCCAIN AND THE MELTDOWN
“McCain’s former economic adviser is ex-Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. On Dec. 15, 2000, hours before Congress was to leave for Christmas recess, Gramm had a 262-page amendment slipped into the appropriations bill. It forbade federal agencies to regulate the financial derivatives that greased the skids for passing along risky mortgage-backed securities to investors.
And that, my friends, is why everything’s falling apart. That is why the taxpayers are now on the hook for the follies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns and now the insurance giant AIG to the tune of $85 billion.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccain_and_the_meltdown.html
September 19th, 2008 at 9:19 am
The Bush economy was built on baloney. It was built on keeping interest rates low so that people could borrow lots of money to spend on real estate and at the mall. The resulting housing bubble left middle-class people feeling prosperous, even as their earnings stagnated or fell.
The Democrats weren’t exactly tigers on containing the housing bubble, but they did try to put the brakes on some of the lending outrages that are the root of the current crisis. For example, Barack Obama sponsored a bill that would have prevented lenders from pressing abusive loan terms onto unsophisticated, subprime borrowers. That went nowhere.
“I certainly don’t fault Sen. McCain for these problems,” Obama said early in the crisis, “but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to.”
Obama need not be so mild-mannered. McCain’s economic philosophy is McCain’s fault. He doesn’t know much about economics — and has admitted as much — so his philosophy became a simple-minded faith in the opinion of others. And look whom he listens to.
Americans will be paying for this philosophy well into the 21st century.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccain_and_the_meltdown.html
September 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Barack Obama warned this would happen when he spoke to the Nasdaq a year ago.
Where was the coverage?
September 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh boy, the desperation has been ratcheted up a notch or two – the new talking point seems to be that paying taxes is ‘unpatriotic’, citing the Boston Tea Party for gawd’s sake.
The other new talking point that had me giggling was this thing that ‘you can’t trust those fact-checking sites’ – heard it twice yesterday from that pillar of truth and honour Karl Rove :)
September 19th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Re: Boston Tea Party,
The right would bash the colonists as being unpatriotic, thugs and vandals.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
The unfettered free market conservatives finally get their dream girl
With our financial markets in crisis, there are is no shortage of finger pointing going on. Certainly, the once venerable firms we’ve seen tank, Bear, Lehman,and AIG were all leveraged to the hilt. They took on way too much risk and carried unsustainable debt to ratio assets. Even worse, their precarious financial positions were not transparent to the market. The short sightedness and greed of these institutions have caused havoc in our economy.
Well, for the better part of my life, I’ve heard market republicans (as opposed to cultural republicans) extol the virtues of the free market. Ever since the New Deal, these folks have been lobbying for deregulation and their idea of smaller government, a government that stays out of the the way of big business, but not your personal affairs.
Well, these republicans finally bedded their dream girl. Only to wake up the next morning to find that they are still lonely empty people and their dream scenario had absolutely no basis in reality.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/223726/608/805/602278
September 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH
For twenty-eight years, since the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s first term, we have been subjected to a steady stream of Republican propaganda claiming that if we just got government out of the way and “off our backs,” deregulate the economy, and let the market work its magic, prosperity would “trickle down” to the average American citizen. In the mid-1980s, corporate lobbyists descended on Washington, threw huge amounts of campaign cash around, and told us that deregulating the Savings and Loan industry would be a great idea. John McCain and his good friend Charles Keating from Arizona were big advocates of this scheme that turned out to be a disaster that cost taxpayers $500 billion. Phil Gramm, when he was Senator from Texas (and John McCain’s choice for president in 1996), worked up another “deregulation” bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1999 that repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, thereby destroying a key firewall between commercial and investment banks.
We witness the same over-confident, smug market fundamentalists and laissez-faire devotees, businessmen and women who hate “government” when it provides aid to families with dependent children, or food stamps, or health coverage for poor people — businessmen and women who denounce as creeping “Socialism” any attempt by the government to redistribute some of the nation’s wealth to the working middle class or to the poor — now come to Washington, hat in hand, begging the federal government to fix their self-created problems brought on by their own unbridled greed and recklessness and demanding massive infusions of tax-payer dollars in the form of bail out after bail out.
Socialism for the rich, naked capitalism for the rest of us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/socialism-for-the-rich-na_b_127121.html
September 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Obama is taking huge sums of Middle Eastern money in amounts under $25 so not to be reported. It is estimated in excess of $250 million dollars. Intelligence operatives are reporting The Iranians are saying Obama is their secret weapon. It is very obvious he cannot talk with out a teleprompter. Obama is a puppet for foreign Islamic operatives and George Soros. Wake up America. You do not have to take my word just go by your gut and research his past,
September 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Old lefty has been exposed. He is Alan Colmes. You can tell by the way they attack the messenger and never answer the subject. Where I come from we would say they are delusional and useful idiots for the liberal elite who really feel they are the blue bloods of society. We are just ignorant peasants who they can keep down. The elite does not pay taxes because they wrote the tax code. From Kennedy, Kerry to Pelosi, Rangel they have tax-free trusts. They despise Christians and morality because it exposes their deceit and class warfare they invoke upon the various unclean peasant groups. They force public schools on us yet send their children to private schools. We are Americans and we need to expose these ultra leftist snobs including the Obamas. The left likes him be cause he will tax and make it impossible for us to be in their neighborhoods. Palin and McCain are normal family loving people who want the best for our families and for us to succeed. Please search your heart and you will agree.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Dear Monica,
Since you seem to enjoy writing fiction, why not submit it to Redbook? You might even win a prize.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Monica,
What messenger are you talking about?
“attack the messenger” is what the right wing does every time you use the phrase ‘liberal media’.
Is anyone MORE elite than those whose personal fortunes are tied up in the very foreign policy, they come into government to affect? Please!
My kids did very well with the public schools, thank you very much.
We Americans on my side feel we need to expose these far right corporate shills who seem to be more comfortable in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, ( remember they wanted to give our ports to the UAE, who hunt with Osama bin Ladin)….Oh, but Obama is the elitist, because he pulled himself up, instead of letting Daddy do it…. It’s 1984, people!
The right likes McCain because he will tax the middle class out of existence so that the corporation can have an endless supply of cheap, desperate labor, while they move their headquarters, (but not their boardroom), off shore and live off the government dime.
Samuel Adams spoke of the right wing kool aid drinkers:
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
September 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Where are all those free market, small government, Republican conservatives? They have been strangely silent. Rush Limbaugh where are you? Newt we miss you buddy. Phil Graham, Bill Bennett,Bill Kristol, I could go on and on. I thought that I spied a free market, conservative, you’re on your own Republican today but he slipped out of sight behind his Lexus. I guess they must all be on vacation spending their tax haven stash in the Caymans or maybe they are all throwing kisses to Sarah Palin at her rallies.
Gee I sure thought that I would hear from some of them when our government suddenly decided to put the taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debt. It just a good thing that neither Bill Clinton, or heaven forbid, Jimmy Carter is overseeing this mess because I’m reasonably certain that I would have no trouble finding myself a free market, small government, you’re on your own Republican.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Read the truth about what happened. Dems in Congress and the White House required any bank wanting to expand thier services to first show a history of granting loans to people in lower economic groups who have usually not been granted credit before
It was the Democrats who guaranteed that any bank entering the global market would have a portfolio FULL of bad loans to infect the entire system with.
This is from the NYT 23 Oct 1999
WASHINGTON — The Clinton Administration and top Republican lawmakers reached an agreement early Friday to overhaul the financial system, repealing Depression-era laws that have restricted the banking, securities and insurance industries from expanding into one another’s businesses.
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For instance, the nation’s largest financial services company, Citigroup, would have been forced to sell some of its insurance operations as part of the $72 billion merger last year between Citibank and Travelers Group without either the legislation or a waiver from regulators.
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The legislation will more easily enable financial companies to offer corporate clients a full range of services, from traditional loans to investment banking services, like public stock offerings. And for consumers, it paves the way for financial supermarkets, which will be able to offer one-stop shopping for an array of services, all under one roof. The measure is also expected to clear a path for a new and bigger wave of corporate deal-making as more companies consolidate.
White House officials withheld final approval of the agreement until aides could see the measure’s language. But the officials indicated Friday night that, with broad support from Democrats in Congress, the measure was all but certain to be signed by President Clinton. As such, it will be one of the most significant pieces of legislation to be written by the White House and the 106th Congress, which began its term considering whether to remove Clinton and has had a bitter relationship ever since.
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Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said in an interview, “At the end of the 20th century, we will at last be replacing an archaic set of restrictions with a legislative foundation for a 21st-century financial system.” The measure, he added, “would provide significant benefits to the national economy.”
Senator Gramm said the measure “is the most important banking legislation in 60 years.”
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The legislation repeals the Glass-Steagall Act, or, as it is formally known, the Banking Act of 1933, which broke up the powerful House of Morgan and divided Wall Street between investment banks and commercial banks. It also makes significant changes to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, which had restricted what banks could do in the insurance business.
The Glass-Steagall Act was enacted after the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing banking crisis and Great Depression. On the day it was signed, along with the National Industrial Recovery Act and other measures, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the package “the most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by the American Congress.”
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The breakthrough in Friday’s legislation came in a backroom meeting at the Capitol soon after midnight, when a group of moderate Senate Democrats — led by Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Charles E. Schumer of New York — forced a compromise between Gramm and the White House over the legislation’s effect on the Community Reinvestment Act, a 1977 anti-discrimination law intended to encourage lending to minorities and others historically denied access to credit.
Dodd, whose state is home to the nation’s largest insurance companies, and Schumer, with strong ties to Wall Street, have long sought legislation to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. Both men said in interviews Friday that they moved to strike a compromise after it became apparent that the legislation might be killed, as it was last year by Gramm, over the debate about the Community Reinvestment Act.
Gramm had maintained that he did not want anything in the bill that would expand the application of the Community Reinvestment Act because it was, he said, unnecessarily burdensome to banks. He had sought a provision that would exempt thousands of smaller banks from the law. He also wanted a provision that would expose what he has described as the “extortion” committed by community groups against banks by requiring the groups to disclose any special financial deals the groups extract from the banks.
But the White House found that provision unacceptable and had its own ideas about community lending. It wanted the legislation to prevent any bank with an unsatisfactory record of making loans to the disadvantaged from expanding into new areas, like insurance or securities.
The White House had insisted that the President would veto any legislation that would scale back minority-lending requirements. Four days of intense negotiations between Summers, Gene Sperling, the President’s top economic policy adviser, and Gramm, while moving the two sides closer, failed to resolve the differences.
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After receiving calls from executives of some of the nation’s leading financial companies, Dodd and Schumer began trying to work out a compromise. An agreement was quickly reached on the issue of banks and expanded powers – no institution would be allowed to move into any new lines of business without a satisfactory lending record.
The lawmakers bogged down on Gramm’s insistence that all community organizations disclose to the regulators what benefits they get from banks. Some Democrats expressed the fear that Gramm’s proposal would require the Boy Scouts to file reports with the regulators.
Ultimately, the following provisions were drawn up and both the White House and Gramm said they could accept them:
¶Banks will not be able to move into new lines of business unless they have satisfactory lending records.
¶Community groups will have to make disclosures to regulators about certain kinds of financial deals with banks that they have pressed to make loans under the Community Reinvestment Act.
¶Wholesale financial institutions, a new kind of business that takes large, uninsured bank deposits, cannot be affiliated with commercial banks.
¶Small banks with satisfactory or excellent track records of lending to the underserved would be reviewed less frequently under the Community Reinvestment Act. As a practical matter smaller banks are reviewed about every three years. The deal struck today allows all rural banks and banks with less than $250 million in assets to undergo examination once every five years if their last exam resulted in an “outstanding” grade and every four years if they last scored “satisfactory.”
For more than 20 years, Congress has tried unsuccessfully to rewrite the nation’s financial services laws and repeal Glass-Steagall, particularly as many other industrial nations had no similar restrictions on their banks. But until recently, the three main industries affected by the legislation — banks, securities companies and insurers — had competing interests and were able to lobby any legislation to a standstill.
That all changed in recent years as the lines between the industries began to blur and it became more broadly acknowledged that a deregulation of financial services could be beneficial to insurers, bankers and securities firms alike. Once the three industries rallied around the legislation, they became a formidable political force, raising millions of dollars for lawmakers and pressing both Republican leaders in Congress and the White House for new legislation.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/financial/102399banks-congress.html
September 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Oh yes Vince.. Observing how you rationalize things it’s not a surprize that you would blame this on bad loans to the poor and struggling of this country.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
“It was the Democrats who guaranteed that any bank entering the global market would have a portfolio FULL of bad loans to infect the entire system with.”
This assumes that banks are too greedy or too stupid to design loans that low income people can afford.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
>> POSTED BY GT IN GA
>> Where are all those free market, small government, Republican conservatives? They have been strangely silent.
They never existed. The small government rhetoric was a a fraud to get into power.
If the conservatives had been genuine about fiscal conservatism, low taxes and small government, they would have totally reputiated Reagan, who delivered just the opposite.
Bill Clinton was a surprise in that he delivered fiscal conservatism, smaller government, budget surpluses. Even is modest tax increase was more than offset by the increased prosperity that fiscal conservatism bring.
BUT THEY LOATHED CLINTON AND HIS GOOD ECONOMY.
Instead, they foisted another borrrow-and-spend conservative who predictably brought us debt, fiscal weakness and general economic disaster.
AND THE CONSERVATIVES WANT TO ELECT ANOTHER FISCAL DISASTER IN McCAIN.
Thank goodness American’s disastrous experiment with conservatism is about to end.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
>> Sen. Joe Biden believes that paying higher taxes is the patriotic duty of wealthier Americans. Do you agree?
Of course contributing to you country is patriotic.
It is the HEIGHT of disloyalty to take as much as possible from America and then lie, cheat and hide to avoid giving anything back, as so many rich conservatives try to do.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
The top earners in this country already pay the highest taxes. Lumping those who earn 250,000 with the ones who earns millions is silly. Many small business owners fall in that 250,000-1,000,000 category and can’t handle having taxes raised.
You do not grow the economy by raising taxes, and re-distributing wealth. I might add that obama wants to create the largest government expansion since LBJ.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
>> POSTED BY T. MASON
>> The top earners in this country already pay the highest taxes.
How many of those people do you know? I know a few fairly-rich guys and they have tax shelters and tax loopholes coming out their ears.
Sure, they pay some high taxes but, as a percentage of income, I pay a lot more than they do.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The dems used fannie and freddie as a slush fund. Thank Bill Clinton for that and all the dems in congress: Dodd and frank. What did they would happen when you loan money to someone with no down payment, no job and no income? Duh!!!!
fannie and freddie accounting books were atrocious. If they were a private company, the ceos would be in jail. Oh yea, now obama hired both of them to run his campaign and as economic advisors. Of course, this is after they walked off with $100 million. Gee, do you think they are plotting their next big rip off.
Our government is sooo corrupt, we should start with a blank slate.
Reform government and STOP spending.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
The government does NOT need to raise taxes!!!!
They are already the most inefficient of our money. The only GOOD government agency is the military. Thank God.
The $700 billion loan is NOT a reason to raise taxes. All the government has to do is hold those loans for 2-5 years when the housing market comes back and they will be able to resell them and is they are smart(????) they will probably make money. Remember the Chrysler bailout? The government used the same argument to raise taxes. The goverment made millions when the loan was repaid. Did we the people get credit or rebate??? NO!!! Oh yea, the government didn’t tell us and they kept the money. Our wonderful government.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Obama’s great tax plan. Give people $1000 and if he gets elected he’ll turn around and raise taxes. This sounds like the $600 rebate they gave us. How long did that last? Obama’s tax plan is a joke.
We already have to work 7 months out of the year to pay all our taxes: fed, state, local, gas tax, utility tax sales tax, etc. (I can’t name all the taxes we pay.)
Whoopie Goldberg complained about becoming a slave. Who is she kidding? We are already slaves to our government.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Comment about Greg’s post:
Greg, why do you single out conservatives as hiding money? You probably don’t know, but there are more rich dems then conservatives in congress. The dems are the ones who right the laws that allow them to hide their money. Open your eyes.
Obama had holes in his pants pockets when he went to the senate. In 2 short years, he’s a millionaire. How do you think he got it? From his books??? Nobody bought them. You think the dems are so righteous.
The great philantropist, Joe Biden, gave a grand total of $300 dollars to charity. He’s now a millionaire. I guess 35 years in Congress have a few perks.
Open your eyes, the dems don’t give a damn about you.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Being patriotic is giving something to your country willingly.
Taxes is government taking from you, forcefully, if necessary.
Taxes have nothing to do with patrism. There are plenty of people how pay taxes who don’t care at all about the USA.
Joe Biden has been in Congress so long, he has totally lost it.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Comment about Greg’s post:
Greg, Clinton didn’t balance the budget. He can’t. The replublican congress created the budget. It was one of Newt’s bullet points with his contract with America.
Clinton had to be dragged kicking and screaming to sign it.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Alan Colmes gets laughed at because he has to defend some very stupid arguments. He is not consistant on anything.
I have no idea what his core belief is other than dems are gods. He worships at the altar of George Soros.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Alan what do you think happen to the other 8 lives i dont think that animals should have the same right as humans. By the way cat soup is great with a little soy sauce. My friend lee makes a killer cat stew, mmmmmm
September 20th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Greg,
I know a lot of small business owners who pay MORE than their fair share in taxes. The top wage earners pay MOST of the taxes in this country.
You do NOT rescue the economy by raising taxes on businesses. Plain and simple.
September 21st, 2008 at 7:21 pm