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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329282377252471.html

Maryland goes after the rich for more taxes, and the rich leave town.

 

[trysail]

The Commisars and Governor Martin O'Malley are a bunch of swindlers, liars, cheats and crooks.

O'Malley defines the word demagogue and the article accurately describes him: a "dedicated class warrior."

Thanks to the presence of Cancer on The Potomac ( a/k/a The District of Confusion ), in sixty short years Maryland went from being a largely rural, agricultural Eden blessed by the Chesapeake Bay to a place overrun and overpopulated by scumballs and influence peddlars. All these auslander-pigs moved here to feed at the trough of government.

 

[DeeZire]

Trysail - if you're including lobbyists in your screed, one could say they came to feed at the trough of the free market.

On the disappearing millionaires - what the Wall Street Journal left out of their editorial was the fact that with the new administration, Bush's slimeball cronies cleaned out their mansions and moved away, as did a bunch of K street lobbyists. That could account for quite a few missing millionaires.

On class warfare - most of us see the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich as an act of class warfare. In that context, raising the tax rate on millionaires by a point or two is sort of like David flinging stones at Goliath. What's surprising is the fact that Goliath would turn and run, which shows us all what he's made of.

 

[Dragonlipz]

Trysail - if you're including lobbyists in your screed, one could say they came to feed at the trough of the free market.

On the disappearing millionaires - what the Wall Street Journal left out of their editorial was the fact that with the new administration, Bush's slimeball cronies cleaned out their mansions and moved away, as did a bunch of K street lobbyists. That could account for quite a few missing millionaires.

On class warfare - most of us see the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich as an act of class warfare. In that context, raising the tax rate on millionaires by a point or two is sort of like David flinging stones at Goliath. What's surprising is the fact that Goliath would turn and run, which shows us all what he's made of.

And this is just the first wave.......just wait until the Dems in Congress get the idea to follow all the money trails to the source.......more of Try's friends will leave town in hopes of keeping the monies they've stolen.......

 

[amicus]

"...All of this means that the burden of paying for bloated government in Annapolis will fall on the middle class. Thanks to the futility of soaking the rich, these working families will now pay Mr. O'Malley's "fair share."..."

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Thanks for the link, JBJ...really comes as no surprise, does it?

It is already a 'sin' to be wealthy, it may become, 'illegal', heh.

ami

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

AMICUS

What reveals the Usual Suspects as dolts and morons is their total indifference to the idea of making everyone wealthy. Their attitude truly gives up their game. And their game isnt about making everyone rich, its about confiscating every dime from the producers.

They want to eat the Golden Goose not make more of them.

 

[trysail]

Trysail - if you're including lobbyists in your screed, one could say they came to feed at the trough of the free market.

On the disappearing millionaires - what the Wall Street Journal left out of their editorial was the fact that with the new administration, Bush's slimeball cronies cleaned out their mansions and moved away, as did a bunch of K street lobbyists. That could account for quite a few missing millionaires.

On class warfare - most of us see the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich as an act of class warfare. In that context, raising the tax rate on millionaires by a point or two is sort of like David flinging stones at Goliath. What's surprising is the fact that Goliath would turn and run, which shows us all what he's made of.

And this is just the first wave.......just wait until the Dems in Congress get the idea to follow all the money trails to the source.......more of Try's friends will leave town in hopes of keeping the monies they've stolen.......

Right. Uh huh. Sure.



I'm nearly through Robert G. Kaiser's So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and The Corrosion of American Government.

The book focuses on the transformation of The District of Confusion ( a/k/a Cancer On The Potomac ) from a sleepy backwater ("A city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency") where limited, necessary government functions were accomplished by collegial consensus to today's urban hellhole largely populated by sleazeballs*. It didn't take all that long. I remember when it was possible to look across to the south shore of the Potomac and see nothing but cornfields. Now, it's all concrete for miles and miles in every direction full of gridlock, manipulators and Blue Plains effluent.


Kaiser accomplishes the task by following the career of one Gerald Cassidy, a graduate of the school of hard knocks who begins life as a bleeding-heart liberal attorney for migrant workers in Florida and ends up a slimeball with a net worth of $100 million through influence peddling and manipulating the spending of taxpayer money. If you want to understand why the U.S. is well on the way to bankruptcy, this is a book which explains the process of how and why the richest nation the world has ever seen self-destructed.

http://www.cassidy.com/
http://www.cassidy.com/bios/biodetail.asp?Id=1&Office=dc


I'm old enough to have seen the transformation and live close enough to have observed it firsthand. It's been sickening to watch.

I commend the book to your attention. It is both eye-opening and disgusting. It'll leave you wretching.
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*An influence-peddlar is, by definition, a sleazeball and a social parasite because he/she produces nothing of any value to society.
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A once-local financial institution was one of the leaders in the credit card business ( its competitive advantage resulted from its innovation of affinity marketing ). The demagogic moron, "Fat Babs" Milkulski grabbed headlines and played the mob back when interest rates were in the 10% area ( 1984 ) by leading a campaign to restrict interest rates. What did the company do? After fighting the dopes for a long time, it eventually gave up, said "The hell with it" and moved to Delaware ( taking literally thousands of jobs and hundreds of millionaires with it).


Why is it that people are either completely ignorant of or choose to ignore basic economics? The laws of supply and demand are every bit as immutable as the laws of physics or chemistry. When you tax something, you get less of it. The idiot governor raises the sales tax and folk will either stop spending money or they'll flee. The idiots raise income taxes and, as sure as night follows day, folk will behave in perfectly predictible ways.