tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2311118889621554506..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Wednesday WhimperingsFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-73727053618882909722018-07-27T15:43:16.174-04:002018-07-27T15:43:16.174-04:00The biggest problem with Joy Behar's comment i...The biggest problem with Joy Behar's comment is that it's a lie. I'd like to see Meghan McCain tell her the real numbers, but I don't expect her to be fluent in these numbers off the top of her head. (As the great sage Barbie said, "math is hard") Besides, truth doesn't sell well on TV. Not dramatic enough. <br /><br />Granted that if you're aiming to cut taxes while not cutting them for the rich it's a tough needle to thread, but it seems they threaded it nicely and made it a middle class tax cut. Simply because the upper 50% of incomes pays 97% of taxes, by simple arithmetic if you give a small tax cut to upper incomes, the dollar value paid to the upper tax brackets will be larger. A 1% tax reduction to someone earning $200,000 is the more dollars than a 10% reduction to someone earning $15,000. Without a doubt, that hypothetical low income person has a much, much bigger impact from that tax cut than the higher income person, but it leaves the "tax cut for the rich" lie for useful idiots. <br /> <br />Trump's tax codes actually increased the progressivity of the tax code, according to the Cato Institute. <br /><br />Of course, until a lot of people who got a tax cut saw it in their January paychecks, they actually believed these lies. "Who you gonna believe, Joy Behar or your paycheck?" <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-81777480735465833902018-07-25T13:18:42.371-04:002018-07-25T13:18:42.371-04:00As to Ms. Behar, I would ask her this:
"What ...As to Ms. Behar, I would ask her this:<br />"What do the rich do with their money?" <br />her answer could vary from spend it, to invest it to send it offshore.<br /><br />and I would ask this one too:<br />"What does the government do with the rich people's taxes?"<br />The obvious answer is spend it.<br /><br />and then this one:<br />"How efficiently does the government spend the money it does compared to the private sector???"<br />This is where truth will become hard to find. Many rationalizations will be introduced to mask the truth. The fact is all money is spent somehow or another. The private citizen probably gets more use out of their money than the government does by a factor of at least 10. Therefore, money spent in the private sector has a much bigger impact on our society.<br /><br />I doubt seriously if you could get Ms. Behar to answer any questions let alone these. To a liberal, truth is a poison to be avoided at all costs.<br /><br />The argument about the rich being taxed is purely emotional as there is not a shred of logic in anything that most liberals say about it. They appeal to the emotions of their viewers and facts are an inconvenient things. They will never admit that they want to punish the rich for being rich. Jealousy is a dangerous master.<br /><br />As to "It can't be true because I havem't heard about it"<br /><br />The same notions regarding Liberals and truth apply here too. Facts are very inconvenient things and much like the question about a cover up, if one denies any knowledge of such a thing, it must not be true.<br /><br />Somewhere in the middle of the sides there must be a line that contains the truth. I tend to believe that with some exceptions, the truth lies much closer to the right side than the left. I say this simply because the truth is rarely contained in an emotional argument whereas it is almost always contained in a rational argument. Liberals appeal to emotions. Conservatives try to rely on facts if possible.<br /><br />Nothing is absolute and I am sure that there have been conservatives who danced around issues and used emotional arguments as logic. I cannot think of one at present so please feel free to comment with any list you have.Glenda T Goodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124547784959889077noreply@blogger.com