Teabaggers

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Dr. Zhivodka, Apr 13, 2009.

  1. The official Teabaggers' party:
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    #11     Apr 14, 2009
  2. Teabaggers had their party, and not too many cared...

    Name tags were worn by many of the teabaggers, below is an example of the typical teabagger's name tag:

















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    #12     Apr 15, 2009
  3. Funny how moonbats rail against and accuse the right of illegal monitoring, curtailing free speech, etc., yet do not want to afford someone else those rights if their views are in opposition.

    H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y

    The calling card of the Left.
     
    #13     Apr 15, 2009
  4. Paul Begala says April 15 is the one day the government asks us to sacrifice for the greater good.


    (CNN) -- Happy Patriots' Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us -- or at least the vast majority of us.

    For those who wear a military uniform, those who serve the rest of us as policemen and firefighters and teachers and other public servants, every day is patriots' day. They work hard for our country; many risk their lives -- and some lose their lives.

    But for the rest of us, the civilian majority, our government asks very little. Except for April 15. On this day, our government asks that we pay our fair share of taxes to keep our beloved country strong and safe.

    Freedom isn't free. That's what the courageous World War II veterans of the American Legion taught me back in Texas Boys State decades ago. That phrase had special meaning for them. Those guys had seen buddies blown apart at Anzio or Guadalcanal.

    I grew up in a different era. There was no draft, and while I have friends and family members who joined the military, most of my peers, like me, opted for the security and prosperity of the private sector.

    This country has showered me with the blessings of liberty. So what do I owe my country in return? Paying my fair share of taxes, it seems, is the least I can do. Thanks to President Obama and the Democratic Congress, 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut this year. No one -- not even the wealthiest 1 percent -- will have to pay higher income taxes until 2011.

    So why are a bunch of Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks hosting "tea parties" all over the country? The Boston Tea Party, in case the clods at Fox didn't know it, protested "taxation without representation." Note the second word: without. The goofballs tossing tea bags today have representation. They voted in the election; they lost.

    That a bunch of overpaid media millionaires would lead a faux-populist revolt is comical. They somehow held their populist instincts in check as George W. Bush and the Republicans cut taxes on the idle rich and put the screws to the working stiffs.

    Bush's tax policies were a godsend to the Paris Hilton class, but they sent the country on the road to bankruptcy and helped ruin the economy. But now that we the people have decided to set things right, now that we've hired Obama to fix the mess conservatives created, now they're protesting?

    Give me a break. Instead of tossing tea bags for the cameras, the Fox phonies ought to go to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. There they would find better, braver men who have truly sacrificed for their country. They deserve nothing but the best -- not the shameful and shoddy conditions they endured during the Bush administration. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on taxes and tea parties

    You want something to protest? How 'bout protesting how little we give back to our veterans? Or how 'bout protesting that the entire budget of the National Cancer Institute (where government researchers battle a disease that will strike half of all men and a third of all women) is 0.03 percent of what we gave the bandits at American International Group alone? Oh, but veterans benefits and cancer research might cost money. It might require -- dare I say it? -- paying taxes.

    If the whiners at Fox News want to advertise their selfishness, they are free to do so. But please don't dress it up as patriotism. Patriotism is putting your country ahead of yourself -- which is the precise opposite of what the tea party plutocrats are doing.

    The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Begala.
     
    #14     Apr 15, 2009
  5. I sent a check for $70,000 today for my estimated quarterlies. Single filer, no kids, Marine Corps Veteran. I wonder If Paul Begala thinks I got my money's worth.
     
    #15     Apr 15, 2009
  6. Gosh all those people with incomes over $250,000 a year. Must have been the entire contingent of the 5 percent getting their taxes raised. It was okay when it was the defense dept. stimulus .. though it still is.
     
    #16     Apr 15, 2009
  7. LOL!

    I guess they're like "Joe da Plumber" and too dumb to know that they got an income tax CUT.

    But hey, what do you expect when they've been "tea-bagged" by Fox News? :D
     
    #17     Apr 15, 2009
  8. Money's worth?

    Assuming you are making your bones trading, why not just move?

    I'm not a "America, love it or leave it" type but there are plenty of places to live where you would pay less in taxes, right?

    I'm all in favor of people working through the system politically according to the rules to elect different pols, but from where I look, we are no less representative in our government than we have been in over 50 years.

    When Texas secedes, you can always move to Texasland...

    Enjoy the summers there...

    LOL!!!

     
    #18     Apr 16, 2009
  9. Where do you suggest that I move to considering that I'm an American citizen trading the U.S. markets and I don't really want to break the law?

    Texas? No thanks...been there done that.

     
    #19     Apr 16, 2009
  10. I don't know the tax situations world wide, but certainly there is a country that would allow you to trade and pay less in income tax...

    Unless they are closed to immigration, then you can work toward that. Most countries make exceptions for people making a lot of money to find a home in their country.

    Take a look here:

    http://www.worldwide-tax.com/israel/israel_tax.asp

    Apparently the wealthy jews must think they are getting their money's worth...

    :D :D :D

    Here, plan your future:

    http://www.worldwide-tax.com/

    :p :p :p



     
    #20     Apr 16, 2009