Nov.22, 2010 – PPM – Don’t Tax or Tread On Me

This week's PPM is about the on-going Class Warfare that is being waged in Washington by our "Representatives."

Why are the rich vilified? Why is success an albatross?

We already have disparate tax rates. Why should one section of the population pay more for the same standard services that we all use?

Do the rich drive on "special" roads made of gold? Then why charge them more to use the same infrastructure?

Do the rich get a better national defense? Is there a special line at Krogers for those with more money?

Not all rich people inherited to their financial position. Some made sacrifices, went to college, took out loans. They made their money by traveling for business and missing some important life moments in order to eventually achieve a better life result.

Now, they are disparaged because of their efforts.

The Democrats are only concerned with the "Middle Class". This is pandering at its worst. They think that this will gain them votes. Their continued courting of certain minorities at the expense of others is wrong and should and will have negative implications.

Sixty per cent of the people get more out of the government than they pay while the top earners pay 90% of all income taxes.

Every one mentions that extending the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy will cost us $750B. No one mentions two things, that this is the cost over TEN YEARS. They also fail to mention how many jobs that will NOT be created because of the additional tax burden on small business owners.

They also fail to mention how much will the extension of ALL Bush tax cuts will cost the US Treasury? Wouldn't it be GREATER than $750B? Shouldn't the Middle Class be concerned about the national deficit as well?

Obama's continued "WEALTH REDISTIBUTION" plan will never make us all equal and eliminating poverty.
I firmly believe that if everyone started over with the same amount of money and same chance in life, that in five or ten years the stratification of the classes would appear again. The same people that are poor today would make up a large percentage of the poor tomorrow.

It's a matter of education, drive, and discipline. A prime example was the mismanagement of the "TAX REBATE" or stimulus checks some people received in 2008. Go back and read my blog about this issue and explain to me how I was wrong in my prediction. China was the only one that got a good deal out of this "Stimulus Package".

Growing up, I was no stranger to poverty. I spent more time in trailer parks than Midwest tornados.

I didn't survive poverty because of an international call to arms about the issue.

I overcame it because of a strong support system from my family and an individual drive to succeed.

The below passage is taken from Section 2, Article I, of the original US Constitution.

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.)"

According to our Fore Fathers, the wealthy should get a more proportional vote. Try that concept now.
So here we are some 220 years later with some people deciding that we need "Wealth Redistribution."

This is nothing more than CLASS WARFARE. This philosophy has never worked in the past and will not work this time.

Dare to dream. This was once the American motto.