More inanity from a conservative wacko

More from CelticRadio.net's resident conservative wacko:

This Friday is April 15th. Unfortunately, it won’t just be another beautiful spring day. It’s tax day. The day you must file your federal income tax return. Many of you who are reading this have not yet begun to fill your forms out. If you’re like so many Americans, you’re dreading it. You’re procrastinating. A survey conducted for Associated Press shows that by a slight margin Americans would rather go to the dentist rather than fill out their taxes. 70% of Americans say that their taxes are too complicated. Many of you will have to write a check to the Imperial Federal Government. Go ahead, file an extension. Nine million other taxpayers will. You still have to write the check.

Several classes of people come to mind around this time of year:

∑ First, we have those who pay no federal income taxes at all. This is almost 50% of all income-earning Americans. It is no mistake that so many Americans don’t share in the responsibility of paying for the operation of the federal government. It’s been this way since the beginning. They managed to get three-fourths of the states to ratify the 16th Amendment to our Constitution, the one allowing an income tax, by convincing most of America that only wealthy individuals in a few Northeastern states would have to pay the tax. Americans seem to find it so easy to support taxes ... as long as other people are paying them. This might explain why so many Americans on the lower end of the earnings scale aren’t really worked up about tax reform.

∑ Secondly, we have those who not only don’t pay taxes, they actually get a check on April 15th. These are the Earned Income Tax Credit freeloaders. Their so-called tax “credit” exceeds the amount of taxes they owe, so the government just writes them a check for the amount of the unused “credit.” Washington likes to call this a “refundable credit.” People who speak plain English call it a welfare check, a handout, or outright thievery. For the life of me I can’t see how an honest American can sit there and take a check for the balance of their unused tax credit, knowing that money came out of their neighbor’s wallet, and not feel guilty as hell.


∑ Third we have the great American wage earners who have no clue as to how much they paid in federal income taxes this year. They just know they’re getting a refund. That’s it. If you walk up to one of these zombies right after they’ve finished filling out their 1040 and ask them how much they had to pay in taxes this year, their mouths will open and they will promptly utter that one phrase that thrills the politician’s soul: “I didn’t have to pay anything. I’m getting some back.” These are the people who used to ride the short bus to school and who are now anxiously waiting for that magic day when their rent-to-own furniture will finally be all theirs. They will celebrate by tearing off those little “do not remove under penalty of law” labels. These people are truly the poster children for government schools.

∑ Lastly there’s that small group of Americans who know the score, who know how much they earned, and how much they paid in taxes. They also know that they’re resented, even hated, by the rest. Amazing, isn’t it? Americans who pay no federal income taxes, Americans who are essentially getting a free ride, these Americans actually resent the people who are paying their way, resent them because they are more successful, because they make more money - pure textbook envy, one of the cardinal sins. This final group of taxpayers is the top 50% of income earners who pay about 96% of all income taxes. There also is the top 1% of income earners, those who earn about 18% of all income, but who pay 38% of all federal income taxes. These are the people who drive our economy through their creative abilities. They’re the ones who invest in old businesses and begin new ones. They are called “boss” by about 80% of U.S. workers, and they’re being absolutely whacked by our current tax system ...

... and many here at CelticRadio are happy about it.

Many here want a system where only the rich shoulder the financial burden of the entire country on their shoulders - just so long as you define “rich” as being one level above yourself. Liberals love this system as long sa you’re taking money from someone other than yourself and giving it to everyone else. A federal welfare system where those that achieve are forced to subsidize those that do not. Take your paycheck and rip it into many pieces, keep one of the pieces for yourself, and let someone else distribute, as they see fit, the remainder of your paycheck to others.

Many here want an “equal” system, one where there are no rich people, one where (like Marx envisioned) everyone makes the same and pays the same. Each time this has been tried the taxes, or the government’s share, of your income stifles achievement and creativity. You end up with a economy that slowly implodes on itself, sometimes with a revolution. Yet many in the US still dream fondly of a Socialistic (a.k.a. Progressive) structure here in America.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can fund the operations of the federal government without punishing achievement. We can fund the government without creating and sustaining class envy. We can fund the government without putting American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with much of the rest of the world. We can fund the government while allowing American workers to receive 100% of their paychecks each and every payday, and allowing them to become savers and investors. It’s called The Fair Tax. The Republicans are too scared to take a stand, and the Democrats are absolutely determined to make sure the Fair Tax never becomes law.

This Friday is April 15th. What will you be doing on that day?

I've given up trying to reason with this guy. I can only pray that one day, he will see the light.