Doocy falsely claims 47 percent are "not paying taxes," asks should they "be allowed to vote?"
July 28, 2010 7:03 am ET
From the July 28 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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Why don't you ask whether they should be allowed to live?
The ACP also wants to make it a-okay to use violence against women seeking an abortion. Wow! What a bunch of winners we have in this country.
Also, Republicans like the people at Fox "News" are supposed to be AGAINST paying taxes. It's an article of faith for them that eliminating taxes increased revenues. In theory, if 47 percent of Americans are not paying taxes, Republicans should be applauding them. Of course, in the Wingnuttia fiction, there's not paying taxes (rich, white inheritors and rich, white businessmen -- YAY!) and not paying taxes (lazy, poor African Americans and Hispanics -- BOO!)
Just last week Republicans tried to permanently eliminate the inheritance tax, which they all the "Death Tax", and which I call the "Paris Hilton Tax".
In Doocy's ideal America, will rich dilettantes who make their money the old fashioned way (waiting for daddy to die) and avoid paying taxes thanks to Republican policies be denied THEIR right to vote? Somehow I think that's not what he had in mind.
They've somehow convinced masses of average and below average Americans that they're being punished with excessive taxes, while lying out of the other side of their mouth that half of the country isn't paying any taxes,
That they're able to get the rubes simultaneously outraged that they're overtaxed, and outraged that they're undertaxed, is a testament to the dumbing-down of America that Fox has been working so hard at for years.
they should be denied citizenship and be treated like illegal immigrants in Arizona
-- Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -- 24th Amendment to the constitution
And speaking of not paying taxes...I wonder if mmfa will take up the cause to defend John Kerry's utter hypocrisy in beating out his home state of $500,000 in taxes?
Nevertheless, Kerry's going to pay the Massachusetts tax.
Senator John F. Kerry announced yesterday that he will voluntarily pay $500,000 to Massachusetts tax collectors.
During your outrage, don't forget that Obama is an anti-semite who hates the Boy Scouts and The Troops, and that he and Shirley Sherrod are racists.
Republicans, on the other hand, openly advocate Social Darwinism... to hell with the poor... if God liked them, he'd have made them rich.
That's why I'll choose the rich Democratic a$$hole every time.
The old semi-reasonable comment, followed by the "and speaking of..." , getting to the real goal, tossing out any loosely related right wing tidbit of bullsh*t of the day.
Well done ! It's always so seamless.
If the boat is chartered out, or taken out by the people who are repairing it, and it goes into Massachusetts' waters, then HOW the heck is Kerry responsible for where it goes?
ONLY if it's documented that KERRY used/docked the boat in Massachusetts waters could he be dinged for the tax, based upon my reading of the law.
And state Department of Revenue spokesguy Bob Bliss confirmed the senator "is under no obligation to pay the commonwealth sales tax."
However, according to Bliss, if Kerry berths the Isabel in Massachusetts waters within six months of purchasing the boat, there's a "presumption of use" and the Heinz-Kerrys would have to walk the plank and pony up to the Bay State. After six months, should the boat change its berth to, say, Nantucket, then it's up to the state to go after them for the taxes, Bliss added.
And, on top of that, the yacht is apparently not even OWNED by Kerry! It's owned by a LLC in Pittsburgh, PA which controls his wife's money, and so Massachusetts couldn't legally go after it in ANY case. Kerry and his wife file separately, and she maintains her official residence as in Pennsylvania!
But because he's a good guy, contrary to Wesley the weasel's assertions, Kerry went ahead and paid the taxes.
When it became an issue, he paid the taxes to shut his critics up. That doesn't mean he owed the taxes. It means he's smart and he and his wife can afford to pay those taxes and not be hurt financially by it.
No more than they will take up Senator Craig's cause of anonymous homosexual liaisons in airport restrooms, wesley.
Emphasis mine. Seriously, did you even read it before posting it?
Anyway, their votes, all of our votes, are in jeopardy because we have allowed a private company to own the voting machines.
And yes, those computerized machines bothered me, too. I cast my ballot on a peice of paper back in 2008 because of the long lines. I'm still not sure if it counted. Virginia is replacing the computerized machines after just a few years in operation. Paper ballots are bad, but better than something that can't be seen or touched like electronic ephemera
Wait... Maybe one of those things wasn't set up by the Constitution... But who cares? The President is clearly black, people!
Fox knows when to use a few good video clips of Mexicans crossing the border, or inner city black people, to show their faithful what that fictional freeloading half of the country looks like.
The vast majority of these people will never... NEVER make anything close to $250,000 a year, yet they hyperventilate over the prospect of rich people paying the same rate they were paying in the 90s.
It's absolutely amazing. It would make a fascinating study for some psychologist. I think the author of What's the Matter with Kansas touched on it, but it's been a while since I read it.
Hey, I've got an idea! How about we only let land-owning Protestant white hetero millionaire males vote? How about that? Oh, wait! We practically have that now, thanks to the Citizens United ruling.
So what it really sounds like is, if you are not a Rich White Christian Male you have no right to vote.