Rahm Emanuel's bioethicist brother suggests government intervene in eating habits
It’s very interesting to watch how something so everyday suddenly becomes political.
First the First Lady says fat people are a National Security Risk and then the paid off “experts” agree (wonder which of those will end up in an appointment)…. Now they say 'Heavier people' are bad for the economy.
The drumbeat continues to turn the population AGAINST a segment of society – any segment will do. Smokers were the last decade, now fatty’s are the new decade.
Why, you ask? So they can tax it. If it moves, if it doesn’t move, or if it even exists - tax it! And along the way, we will probably hear some murder defenses which purport some creep killed some fatty because he was a drain on his welfare check.
Do they really not realize how damaging these campaigns against a singled out segment of society will be to the not so stable of our nation? Sure they do, they don’t care.
So tell me, oh ye progressive governmental purveyors of destruction, which is it? Are fatty’s a threat to National Security or to the Economy? Both, you say? How convenient for you! All that is wrong with the nation is just a problem of fatty’s. Not politicians seeking a career, not progressives seeking the takeover of America and putting into place bigger PROHIBITIONS (which in case you didn’t know is the key to progressive politics….it’s not about “moving forward” - it is strictly about “moving backwards” into taxing everything and taking things away – an easier way to remember it is Progressives = Prohibition).
But No. It is all the fatty’s fault. How else can you tax it? How sick are the politicians of this nation, really? Would seem to me that fat people are just fine where they are…it’s the progressives who are the threat.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
When Enough is Never Enough For the Prognazi
A friend and fellow blogger Frank Hill from Telemachus Leaps sent me this link today for my daily email. (Yes, I eblog way more than I blog)
Thanks Frank, a great site!
I found it shocking, sick, greedy, and totally not cool.
Really folks, we haven't even seen the Bush Tax Cuts removed yet, or whatever damage we will see through the new policies, cap and tax and the dreaded Granny Kill Bill from Obamacare.
This regime is not progressive alone, they are Prognazi's all.
From the Tax Foundation
July 29, 2009
Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95%
by Scott A. Hodge
Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the conventional Beltway rhetoric that the "rich" are not paying their fair share of taxes.
Indeed, the IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. This is the highest percentage in modern history. By contrast, the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden in 1987, the year following the 1986 tax reform act.
Remarkably, the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. In 2007, the bottom 95 percent paid 39.4 percent of the income tax burden. This is down from the 58 percent of the total income tax burden they paid twenty years ago.
To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.
Some in Washington say the tax system is still not progressive enough. However, the recent IRS data bolsters the findings of an OECD study released last year showing that the U.S.—not France or Sweden—has the most progressive income tax system among OECD nations. We rely more heavily on the top 10 percent of taxpayers than does any nation and our poor people have the lowest tax burden of those in any nation.
We are definitely overdue for some honesty in the debate over the progressivity of the nation's tax burden before lawmakers enact any new taxes to pay for expanded health care.
For more on this topic, a new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact includes eight charts of just-released IRS data, and an accompanying dataset breaks the numbers down even further. Read the new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact or view the data (an Excel sheet is available for download at the bottom of the data page).
Thanks Frank, a great site!
I found it shocking, sick, greedy, and totally not cool.
Really folks, we haven't even seen the Bush Tax Cuts removed yet, or whatever damage we will see through the new policies, cap and tax and the dreaded Granny Kill Bill from Obamacare.
This regime is not progressive alone, they are Prognazi's all.
From the Tax Foundation
July 29, 2009
Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95%
by Scott A. Hodge
Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the conventional Beltway rhetoric that the "rich" are not paying their fair share of taxes.
Indeed, the IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. This is the highest percentage in modern history. By contrast, the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden in 1987, the year following the 1986 tax reform act.
Remarkably, the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. In 2007, the bottom 95 percent paid 39.4 percent of the income tax burden. This is down from the 58 percent of the total income tax burden they paid twenty years ago.
To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.
Some in Washington say the tax system is still not progressive enough. However, the recent IRS data bolsters the findings of an OECD study released last year showing that the U.S.—not France or Sweden—has the most progressive income tax system among OECD nations. We rely more heavily on the top 10 percent of taxpayers than does any nation and our poor people have the lowest tax burden of those in any nation.
We are definitely overdue for some honesty in the debate over the progressivity of the nation's tax burden before lawmakers enact any new taxes to pay for expanded health care.
For more on this topic, a new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact includes eight charts of just-released IRS data, and an accompanying dataset breaks the numbers down even further. Read the new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact or view the data (an Excel sheet is available for download at the bottom of the data page).
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