On Taxes and "Entitlements"

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The Stench of Truth (310).mp4 Taxes are on people's minds now because of yesterday being tax day. You need to realize and be outraged by the fact that corporations and financial institutions which have been bailed out by our collective tax dollars pay next to nothing in taxes. Bernanke says that to sustain the debt we have to raise taxes or cut "entitlement" programs or a combination of both. The White House and Congress are in lock step to increase YOUR taxes but do nothing to hit corporations and financial institutions. Then there is the issue of "entitlements" which are portrayed as people getting something for nothing. Do you pay Social security tax? Do you pay Medicare tax? Do you pay Federal and State tax? How are these programs different than an investment? You have every RIGHT to have these things like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security because you PAY for them. It's not for free, you pay for it. I'd like to see some outrage at the dichotomy now that a Value Added Tax is being considered while Goldman Sachs continues to pay next to nothing in taxes and get billions from the Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

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[Kiahsobyk]

I don't use the word "government" before "funded" or "subsidized" or "bailout" or "assistance" anymore. I don't let anyone around me do it, either. I tell them, "taxpayer." Those are taxpayer funds, taxpayer subsidies, TAXPAYER bailouts, TAXPAYER assists. The government gives us nothing. It has nothing. It generates nothing. It is the people and their labor that provides the nation its value. The government only takes, under many names and supposed causes, always at the point of a gun.

[tenebroust]

@Kiahsobyk Good strategy.

[omegahpla]

You do realize the the "owners" of "big corporations" are stock holders, usually people who are not very rich and have worked hard all their lives and invest for retirement purposes and will depend on that for a modest or less than modest income in their retirement right?

The right isn't a defender of giant corps, most of those run by democrats. You have been fooled by the media you rant about. Most small business owners are republicans, most ceo's of big corps and wall streeters are dems, FACT

[tenebroust]

@omegahpla It doesn't matter both parties do the same things, they both screw the middle class and poor. They take care of the corporations. I would also aver that most stock is owned by the rich, controlling interest in any case.

[snowfallzz]

@tenebroust true. there is always a MAJORITY stock holder which the author above failed to mention.. Kind of like the power companies down here, which are preatty much owned by Warren Buffet.. the other investors even if it's called a public owned co op doesnt matter. Why do many of the power linemen suffer and they go without?? for many of the companies..even being union? ask Warren Buffet.. and my instructor for lineman school said it to me like this.. "That's why he's Warren Buffet" :)

[BernieMadoffLMAO]

the banksters can swallow my sack. eveyone to be broke shortly, fuck.

[omegahpla]

@tenebroust corporations & the rich are no more problems than any other special interest group like organized labor or the voting lazy

What does damage and allows evil people power is when they sell out what is equitable according to their efforts and contribution, for greed and something unearned for themselves ... parasitism

That is the root of the problem, the birth of abuse of power. Corporations that buy influence to gain regulation to force us to profit them. Lazy who vote for free candy

[magichandpuppet]

@tenebroust - I agree with a lot of this statement except, with corporations, they and the state are the same since it is the state that gives the corporation their charter which protects the corporate owners from any liability against their dirty deeds. Without the state, there is no corporate protection. And, without the state protecting corporate elite from personal liability, there is no way a corporation can run amuck... and even if it does, it will soon die - and good riddance!

[magichandpuppet]

@tenebroust - I appreciate your reply, love your videos, and I do sympathize with your views. However, since the SS payments I have made were by force, under coercion, it is almost a moot point that part of the coercion were lies that I would someday get some of it back. If I had voluntarily purchased some kind of retirement plan on the free market, I think arguing about getting what you paid for is time well spent. But, with SS, it's hard to argue with someone who has a gun to your head.

[Slavestorms]

@tenebroust Structured debate. It's like their bogus political spectrum from liberal to conservative. Where do anarchists fit in on that scale? They have Fascism on one side and Socialism on the other. Some choice, the same owners under a different ism.

They play on our individualism and desires to fit into the group. We know stuff sucks but we have subconscious fear of conflict and change so strong that we maintain the status quo at our own peril

The poorer the people the easier to go Fascist