The Patriot Post Chronicle 9-31

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 9-31
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THE FOUNDATION

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall

This guy wouldn't lie about taxes, would he?

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"Few of President Obama's 2008 campaign pledges were more definitive than his vow that anyone making less than $250,000 a year 'will not see their taxes increase by a single dime' if he was elected. And he was right, very strictly speaking: It's going to be many, many, many billions of dimes. Asked about raising taxes on the middle class on Sunday on CBS's 'Face the Nation,' White House economist Larry Summers wouldn't repeat Mr. Obama's pre-election promise. 'It is never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what,' Mr. Summers said -- except, apparently, when his boss is running for office. Meanwhile, on ABC's 'This Week,' Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also slid around Mr. Obama's vow and said, 'We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. And that's going to require some very hard choices.' These aren't even nondenial denials. The Obama advisers are laying the groundwork for taxing the middle class while claiming the deficit made them do it. ... In an editorial on February 26, 'The 2% Illusion,' we wrote that the feds could take 100% of the taxable income of everyone in America earning more than $500,000 and still have raised only $1.3 trillion even in the boom year of 2006. The rich are fewer and less rich now, while the Obama budget is nearly $4 trillion. Democrats already plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, but that won't raise enough money. So they're proposing an income tax surcharge on 'the wealthy,' but that won't raise enough either. Democrats have no choice but to soak the middle class because only they have enough money to finance the liberal dream of yoking the middle class to cradle-to-grave government entitlements." --The Wall Street Journal

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Get ready for tax hikes: "If we want an economy that's going to grow in the future, people have to understand we have to bring those deficits down. And it's going to be difficult, hard for us to do. ... We're not at the point yet where we're going to make a judgment about what it's going to take." --Treasury Secretary Timothy Tax Cheatin' Geithner when asked if taxes could be raised on the middle class

Tax hikes II: "It is never a good idea to absolutely rule things out, no matter what." --White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers on tax increases for the middle class

White House "clarification": "The president's clear commitment is not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year." --White House press secretary Robert Gibbs

A lady and a scholar: (Censored by moderator) - I'll just say that actress and "comedian" Janeane Garofalo on Tea Party protestors is not funny, is no lady, and is a potty mouth.

INSIGHT

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." --President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" --President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

"There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

UPRIGHT

"'Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.' We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going to erode away.... If you think government should 'do something' about anything that ticks you off, or anything you want and don't have, then you have made your choice between Utopia and freedom." --economist Thomas Sowell

"Health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. That's its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists -- to those who believe government has a legitimate right to regulate human affairs in every particular." --columnist Mark Steyn

"Polling shows that most Americans are happy with the health insurance they have. One reason is that they have, in economist Albert Hirschman's phrase, the option of exit. Most Americans choose health-insurance policies every year, and if we don't like our current plan, we can exit from it and choose another. Government insurance will tend to close off the option of exit, trapping you in a system that is sure to be riddled with unanticipated consequences." --political analyst Michael Barone

"The White House and Congress have encountered a delay on the bullet train to passing health care legislation. This is a good thing. Our government has just proven that it cannot even purchase used cars, but it expects us to believe that it has a stranglehold on health care and its costs?" --columnist R. Blake Curd

"A society that is organized to permit individuals to flourish and to realize their potential ... will broadly share in the increased prosperity those individuals help to create. A society (or a global system) that misunderstands wealth creation and wishes to level society by penalizing success will make life poorer for everyone." --columnist Mona Charen

THE DEMO-GOGUES

The Big Lie: "First of all, nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. I'm tired of hearing that. I have been as clear as I can be. Under the reform I've proposed, if you like your doctor you keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody, you know?" --Barack Obama And we're tired of you and your lies.

What he said then: "My commitment is to make sure that we have universal healthcare for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. ... I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process." --Barack Obama in 2007

Pointing fingers: "It's almost immoral what [private insurers] are doing. Of course they've been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure. ... They are the villains in this." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

We're all just pawns of the insurance companies: "I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television. They want to show thousands of people screaming socialism and try to overcome the public sentiment, which now favors health care reform. ... There are health insurance companies that are ... very profitable and they don't want to see this reform so they are helping to organize these rallies." --Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)