With "tea party" promos on Fox Nation, Fox News compounds political boosterism
SUMMARY: Fox News continued its pattern of encouraging people to participate in "tea party" protests, highlighting on its Fox Nation website a Fox Forum post by James Pinkerton, titled, "Tea Parties: A Great Part of American History -- And America's Future."
Continuing Fox News' pattern of encouraging people to participate in "tea party" protests, described primarily as a response to President Obama's fiscal policies, The Fox Nation linked to an April 8 Fox Forum entry by Fox News contributor James Pinkerton, titled, "Tea Parties: A Great Part of American History -- And America's Future." The Fox Nation, which Fox News claims does not traffic in "biased media," also featured an accompanying graphic: a used tea bag superimposed over images of the Constitution and the American flag.
As Media Matters for America documented, Fox News hosts have frequently encouraged viewers to participate in the "tea parties"; during the April 6 edition of Glenn Beck, on-screen text characterized these events as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." Tea-party organizers have used the planned attendance of Fox News hosts to promote their protests. Fox News has also aired numerous interviews with protest organizers. Moreover, Fox News contributors are listed as "Tea Party Sponsor[s]" on TaxDayTeaParty.com.
From The Fox Nation:
FOX News has gone overboard with its promotions of this Tea Party garbage. Shame on FOX.
I love the graphic MMfA displays...as if the tea back in the 1770's was bagged!! LOL!
They do what is called reporting the news. What a terrible think for a news media to report what is actually happening out there. I guess you guys are used to having the monopoly in the new media and can't handle an any story being told that you don't like. Whats that Called??????
No, they're promoting the events. They are encouraging people to attend. That goes beyond "reporting".
This is a first. Never before has an entire network -- let alone one claiming to be unbiased -- so blatantly showed its partisan stripes. Not that its a surprise. I wonder what Bernie Goldberg would say about this.
And the amount of promoting of its personalities that will be attending these Tea Parties.
At this point, FOX should no longer have a seat at the White House Press Room.
At this point, FOX should no longer have a seat at the White House Press Room
Absolutely True!!!
I think a boycott by Dems is in order. No fair shake by these clowns. As the party in power the dems have an opportunity to further marginalize Fox. Let it succeed at what its best at, firing up the right wing base. They'll always have their idiotic audience. Nobody begrudges them that, but why further legitimize them by appearing on any of their shows including the assinine Fox News Sunday.
You are 100% correct. No Dem should appear on FOX News Sunday. That so called News program is used to make FOX legitimate.
Fox is not a legitimate news organization. They are like Newsbusters and NewsMax.
Sticky situation for the admin, Jlyons...damned if you keep them there, damned if you ban them.
EXACTLY! They're showing that they are not interested at all in being a NEWS organiztion.
What an outrage.
Faux NEWS is not a news outlet - it is a right-wing conservative mess. They would not know news if hit them in the face. There are no reporters, no anchors, just cheerleaders against our government. Someone stop them before any more crazies go out and shoot up innocent people.
EYKIS, Well said. You are 100% correct about the FALSE NEWS CHANNEL.
I think that they RECOGNIZE news, they just don't care what it is because they're only interested in being a mouthpiece for the Republicans.
I suppose they figured that if the GOP's leader (Boss Limbaugh) can promote it and so can AM talk radio, then why not a news corporation?
I mean, they certainly can't hide their biases any longer, can they?
I just hope NO ONE ELSE covers this garbage. Or if they do, they cover the nasty racist signs that I am sure will be seen everywhere just like from the Palin / McCain rallies in the 2008 campaign.
Boss Limbaugh has always been against protests of any kind -- left or right. He's stated ad nauseum that protesters are nothing more than malcontents and have NEVER done anything important or substantial. He must have been in a drug induced coma during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam protests. Now he's promoting the tea parties. Their hypocrisy is soooooo blatant yet their idiot minion can't see it or don't seem to care. That's why they're out of power and will go the way of the Whigs.
Good for Fox! The liberal media tells what they think we ought to know!!! What other media outlet will you hear about the Tea Parties? The tea parties are a way to vent the outrageous taxes being imposed upon the American people. Where is the rest of the countries outrage? If you love paying freakin taxes - stay home and shut up! If you hate this crazy increase and want to protest these outrageous taxes - attend the Tea Parties!! What's wrong with that? It's as American as protesting the war or George Bush or religion.
Only when they think the "right" is doing something like protesting does the left wants to stop it!! Everytime Cindy Sheehan showed her ugly face - the liberal cameras were there. Get a grip libs - it's time we all join in and protest the obamination of our federal taxes!!!
We The People - that's what started it all!!! Watch this video and regain your patriotism!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
Hey Lady, who said anything about wanting to stop the protests? Just one example please. You rightwingers are pathetic with your idiot strawman arguments,
Why do they keep saying that? Nobody on here, or MMFA is saying that these little outings should be stopped. Nobody. And yet, they always proclaim that to be the "truth" of the matter. The lady's rant sounds just like every other conservative that I know, FoxNews is the bearer of truth, and they will show the mainstream media (as if they're somehow not part of it) the truth as well!
Ironically, there's only one poster telling people to "stay home and shut up!"
True enough. True enough. I'm pretty sure if I showed up to counter protest the tea parties at any location, there would be a whole lot of "WHY DON'T YOU GO HOME!!" sort of thing going on.
Quick story. Locally here in Western NC, they had a tea party protest a few weeks ago. The local media covered it. Turn out for the tea party people was about, oh, 10 people, give or take 5. On the the opposite side, there were probably 200 people protesting the protesters. The guy who organized the tea party protest wrote a letter to the local editor, and said that if people want to come out and protest with him and for his cause, they would welcome anyone to do so, but he was also asking that people who were counter protesting stay home, because this is OUR cause, not yours.
Weird how they like to protest for themselves and their issues, but if they're opposed, all of a sudden, they don't like protests so much anymore.
Thanks for sharing that. It will be very interesting to see just how bad Fox News' protest backfires. They're going to have one heck of a tough time controling the message on 4/15.
Maybe I missed something MagLover, but did you read this from the InsecureLady.
"Only when they think the "right" is doing something like protesting does the left wants to stop it!!"
Considering the fact that right wing protests tend to backfire why would the left want to stop them?
Even if I needed to "regain" my patriotism, I wouldn't do it by watching and listentening to the false bravado of man in a costume.
Har! Victor, I didn't go to the link earlier, but that's hilarious. Nice to know there are people like security lady charging up their "patriotism" by watching crazy infommercial dress-up videos.
The only thing dumber than the video she posted was the responses to it- I can only hope that these morons are all eight years old and are just being baby-sat by the radio most afternoons. At least then there's hope they'll grow out of it.
What other media outlets will let you hear about the tea parties? Actually, all of them. I've seen stories about this on MSNBC, CBS, NBC, CNN.
Outrageous taxes? You mean the tax cut that most Americans (95%) are getting? Those outrageous taxes?
I don't love paying taxes, but like other rational people, I see that they are needed to make our country great.
What crazy increase? 3% on the highest earners in our country? If I were in that group, I wouldn't be too worried about a 3% increase, because tax levels are still going to be lower for everyone than they were under Reagan, and GHW Bush. How come you guys weren't protesting Reagan for his outrageous taxes?
Nobody is saying don't protest. Apparently, reading comprehension is not high on the list of right wing skills. But we also have a right to counter protest. Actually, these tea parties are demonstrations if you want to get technical about it.
Who protests religion? Nobody that I have ever seen.
See chief, the problem is not the rallies themselves. Have at them I say. If they're anything like other right wing rallies I've seen, there won't be too many people at them. Nobody wants to stop this. Nobody at all. The problem is that FoxNews, saying that they are fair and balanced and are not a partisan organization, and PROMOTING and SPONSORING these events. Show me another media source that has outright promoted a protest against the government? You can't do it.
We the people is NOT what started it. Learn history. The Declaration kicked it all off, the Constitution was not written until 1787.
Security Lady is awfully insecure. S/he makes prepostorous statements and then dissappears, good riddance I say.
Nah. I'm sure she'll be back at some point in time to "defend" what she said in her original posting with more un-original strawman arguments.
your video link is trash...the commentators whole premise is that AG Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards. What he forgot to mention was that AG Holder said we were a nation of cowards when it came to dealing will racial issues. The Right has spun that into a war cry as to label ALL people cowards regardless of the message of why we are cowards.
truth be damned
We The People...
The 28%ers, more specifically.
Are you serious? Think for one second what you are fighting against. You are against a tax cut for 95% of the country, the biggest middle class tax cut in our history. Think about what you are for. You are fighting to keep taxes lower for the same executives who took outrageous bonuses on our dime.
Do you have any clue what you are doing? Or has your Obama derangement blinded you to reality?
Really. Take a look at the Republican budget proposal then come back and explain to us how it promotes fiscal responsibility and supports the moral obligation we have to each other, as Americans, to rebuild our economy. You can't do it. The only idea the right has for boosting the economy is killing social security, privatizing it and redistributing 4 trillion more tax dollars to the same extravagantly wealthy leeches your idiot teabaggers are protecting in hopes that they might be invited over for table scraps.
Lame, dude.
You realize, of course, that the "outrageous taxes" you're talking about don't exist. 95% of the people in the country are getting a TAX CUT.
Sure, she realizes that. She just doesn't care. All she cares about is what Fox and Hannity and Limbaugh tell her to care about.
That, and she's being fed some line about someday earning enough money to actually have the Obama tax increase on the highest earners somehow affect her someday- so it's a kind of advanced payment on selfishness.
Stop your complaining and pay your God damned taxes. And some of us never lost our patriotism. We also didn't just find it like the leaders on the right. The majority of those calling the shots and pontificating on the air are all Chickenhawks who take comfort in their new hiding place behind the flag now that it's safe for them.
They all had their chance to show their love of country and just about everyone who now professes to be a patriot failed to serve under the flag they now hide behind.
If you love paying freakin taxes - stay home and shut up! - thesecuritylady
Wow...just...wow.
Do you not understand that most Americans (upwards of 95% of Americans) will see a TAX CUT?
And you want to protest that?
You're a freakin' tool, lady. You truly are.
I pray to God I don't have to entrust my security to you...
The Crazy Lady, or sorry, TheSecurityLady, says "The tea parties are a way to vent (about)(sic) the outrageous taxes being imposed upon the American people. Where is the rest of the countries outrage? If you love paying freakin taxes - stay home and shut up! If you hate this crazy increase and want to protest these outrageous taxes - attend the Tea Parties!!"
There are not outrageous taxes being imposed on the American people. There ares slightly higher taxes being imposed on the richest in our nation rather than imposing tax increases on all people. I'm not outraged that my taxes are going up, because I don't make $200,000 a year. My taxes aren't going up.
No one loves paying taxes, but I am willing to continue to pay the same taxes or maybe a little less and have the richest people in America, people who can afford it, pay a little more for any income over $200,000. I wonder how many people making $200,000 will be attending these tea parties. Anyone else is cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. The rich people who hate these minor increases in their taxes should show their faces in public. I will show up and heckle them for all I'm worth - they are the best-off in our nation and they should carry a heavier burden and when we need more money, they should be the ones who pay the price first and most often.
That 4% increase in income over $250,000?
3% actually. 36 to 39. Somehow, that's "OUTRAGEOUS".
Hey, if I were making over $250k per year, I'd be OK with another 3% increase.
Heck! i'd pony up 6%!!
Also, thanks for the right percentage!
"The tea parties are a way to vent the outrageous taxes being imposed upon the American people. Where is the rest of the countries outrage? If you love paying freakin taxes - stay home and shut up! "
i'm sorry, i must have missed something. exactly which taxes are you referring to? i assume you are not talking about the tax cut that 95% of us are recieving right?
Perfect visual for Fox-- tea-bagging the flag.I heard a bit of inadvertent honesty from radio wingnut Mike Gallagher this morning, supporting these tea parties as a good outlet for people who are "confused and anxious" about (various items of misinformation Gallagher is promoting).
I think " Confused and Anxious" could replace "Fair & Balanced" at Fox, and they'd finally be accurate about something.
So may wingnuts out there. Very dangerous.
if they'd go back on their meds they might not be so "confused and anxious".
Yeah, but according to a lot of right wingers, Cindy Sheehan wasn't really protesting, she just wanted attention (Umm, isn't that the point of protesting something?) from the media to further her career (whatever that meant).
But I agree with you. 2 entirely different scenarios completely. Not that I don't think the crazy tea party people shouldn't have their protests, they should. I just wish they would drop the alleged connection to our founding fathers who did the original tea party in Boston Harbor, because there really isn't a connection between the 2.
Does anyone find it weird that whenever conservatives get on their righteous wagon, they tend to always try to tie themselves in with the founders of our country? The reason I find this weird, is that if conservatives were around during the time of the American Revolution, most of them probably would have been loyalists, and would have wanted to have killed the founding fathers.
But I digress..
I don't get it. Why would anyone who's getting a tax cut under Obama's budget show up to protest higher taxes?
Or are these protests by and for the most affluent among us?
Fox News thinks the American people are puppets. I am looking forward to its comeuppance.
Note to Mr. Pinkerton: The Boston Tea Party wasn't caused by a tax increase. The causes were much more complicated than that. In essence, however, the British government was attempting to lower the cost of tea by repaying the East India Company the duty they paid to import tea to England (and then the Colonies).
Of course, we know the right wingnutz are always seeking the simplistic "soutions" to complex problems.
That's why they object to President Obama actually addressing the root causes of today's ills. The conservatives always favor a short-term, temporary solution to a serious, long-term problem.
Ask 99 out of every 100 people at these Tea Parties and they will not be able to explain what caused the Boston Tea Party. I read this misinformation about an "increase in the tax on tea" yesterday in the Oakland Tribune.
The American Revolution was caused by a British government that refused to treat American colonists as full citizens. It is amazing to me how many of these tea partiers say they've never voted or otherwise participated in the democratic process before...
It's also amazing how many participants in these tea parties, and how many among the Republican rank and file, are in fact members of the shrinking middle class, and yet they support tax cuts for the top 1%, at the expense of a social safety net that might ensure that they and their children have a decent standard of living, education, environment, etc... They have no idea that they are puppets as they so blindly express their "individualism" and "patriotism."
all your eyes: Most of the Southern soldiers during the American Civil War would have had their economic lives substantially improved if slavery were eliminated. Yet they fought and died to preserve that peculiar institution when enlightened self-interest dictated they oppose it...
Yup - that pesky little thing called historical record just doesn't register with alot of people.
Looks like MediaMatters is the only other one promoting these tea parties. Good for them.
It's not the media's job to promote protests, and herein lies the issue that you guys keep forgetting to address.
Want to bet that SecurityLady makes about $35,000, was much better off under Clinton than under Bush, and would benefit greatly from Obama's tax plans? So many of these people are just sheep happy to be herded to serve their lords and masters in the right-wing media, all of whom make more in a year than people like SecurityLady and her ilk will make in a lifetime.
Go to any of these "Tea Parties," and I challenge you to find anyone who would be negatively impacted by Obama's economic policies. What you'll find is a willing army of morons manipulated by the multi-millionaires who give them their marching orders, then laugh to themselves as they cash their huge checks. Pathetic.
See, this is how these tea party people approached me. We were talking about the impact to the wallet. I asked him if he made more than $250k / year. He said that it wasn't any of my business, but no, he didn't make that much money. I said that he'd be experiencing a tax CUT under Obama in the very near future. He didn't seem to believe me, and said that, "Well, that might be true, but my taxes might go up in the future."
He totally convinced himself that his taxes might go up in the future, and this is why he was so mad now.
Un-freakin-believable.
do you know how ridiculous that sounds? People who balk at bigger government and higher taxes are manipulated by multi millionaires who tell them in some secret communication or something to go out and protest so their taxes won't be raised? liberal paranoia has reached new heights. Well I have news for you, some people are smart enough to know that when you try and soak the rich and use them everytime the government says they need more money, it will eventually affect them, and their pocketbooks. Or perhaps they are protesting on principle, unless and until the govt. acts a little more responsible in the way they spend our money, they don't deserve anymore, regardless of who is going to get hit. It's called accountability. these tea parties are symbolic, they are a statement seen by some as enough is enough. They don't buy the liberal rhetoric that just because your individual taxes won't be raised that you will escape the tentacles of bigger more expensive government and higher taxes real soon. that is the liberal naivete that scoffs at these tea parties, and anyone that dares promote them. it's called a tax revolt, in some small measure, and it's about damn time the politicians feel the heat.
James - so they're revolting against the possibility of higher taxes later? Wow. That is quite a stretch to put together a rally based on 5/10 year economic forecasts!
Truth is, James, this is actually a contrived rally against Obama which will include the same lame brains that held up signs and yelled horrible epithets at Obama during the Palin / McCain rallies.
You will see racism, bigotry and gun-toting pride. While at the same time, these people just got a TAX CUT from Obama in the stim bill.
If this was such a revolution, why does it need fund raisers by Glenn Beck and advertising by Fox News & AM hate radio?
these tea parties are symbolic, they are a statement seen by some as enough is enough.
Since we're predicting the future, I'm forcasting racist signs hoisted by some who hate their President.
that was a reply to jamesb
you needn't have bothered, as usual it made no sense.
You have to agree, James, that Victor is correct ... these events will be FILLED with hateful vitriolic signs like these:
These will be the same people that Palin & Hannity ginned up during the campaign
It's not secret communication. It's 90% of AM Radio and Fox "News" Channel. Give me a break.
And yes, they are being manipulated by fear- they are being told that the Big Bad Evil Government is going to take away their guns, impose Marxism (whatever that is, it's never explained to the audience) and let guys marry eachother. They are being manipulated and brainwashed because God Forbid they ever learn the truth- that they are and have been foot soldiers in the service of people who do NOT have their best interests at heart.
The people screaming "Socialism" today are no different from the people who screamed "Socialism" in the 1880s when Unions began to become larger, in the 1900s when the government began to impose regulations on the meatpacking and steel industries, in the 1930s when FDR's Administration and the Democratic Congress created make-work programs, took the govt off the Gold Standard and created Social Security, in the 1960s when LBJ gave us the Great Society, and in the 1990s when the Clintons tried to reform Health Care. They just can't bear the thought of losing some of their treasured monopoly on power and wealth. They can't hold on to it by themselves, so they create "Marxist" straw men, add in a little homophobia and muttered talk of "Islamofascism," add a few well-paid media ranters, and you have Instant Middle Class Outrage.
It's such phony BS it's no wonder that Hannity and Limbaugh's audiences eat it up. No wonder you did, too.
Oh Yeah! Get down jjamele.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP!!!!!
6 hrs and no response. JamesB is too busy licking his wounds.
I was wrong.
It was 5 hrs. 59 mins. 59 seconds to be exact.
The rich were "soaked" in the 1950s- the highest tax rate, for the biggest earners, was 91%- and what we got was the biggest economic expansion in history, including the fastest growth in the middle class ever. In fact, the "Socialism" of the 1940s and 50s- the GI Bill, billions in aid to Europe, Government housing projects which made Levittown and hundreds of other suburbs possible, and that stratospheric tax rate- made America the richest, most stable Democracy in the world.
Now we have talk of "Revolution" because multimillionaires fear the rise of the highest tax rates from 36% to 39%. And an army of people who will never, in their wildest dreams, pay one penny more in taxes as a result are recruited to protest something because the Voice on the Radio told them too.
"Principle?" What "Principle" would that be? The principle that after twenty years, if you try to give the middle class the kind of tax break that the upper classes have been getting regularly all that time, that's "Socialism?"
Please, borrow a wrench from your neighbor. You have more than a few screws loose.
You're making far too much sense.
jjamele brings up some good points. However in the 1950's top marginal tax rate was for those making over $400,000 ($18,000,000 in today's dollars) a year in 1950's dollars. We are speaking of 0.01% of the highest income earners. Though no one ever paid that percentage (give money to Harvard, etc. tax deduction). Now the biggest earners are those making $250,000 in today's dollars. If the highest tax rate was reserved for those like Bill Gates, George Sorros or A-Rod, then 91% would be logical (however, they'd all be living in Ireland and paying Ireland their tax rate). In a competitive world, if we want to make more Bill Gates's, there's a fine line to walk.
There was a great boom in the 40's and 50's when the soldiers, sailors and Marines returned from war with a big knot in their wallets and got married and bought houses and all. I really don't see a good connection to make work projects except the war.
For those that got lost there, herein lies the problem, those that make $300, 000 a year (small business owners or upper management who will buy a house, get new decks (work, stimulous) will pay 39 percent on taxes. Those that make $10,000,000 a year (big sports stars, movie stars, or super wealthy) will manipulate the most complicated tax law ever seen and incorporate themselves, donate money to a college, start a Oprah Foundation in Africa and evade paying 39%. The idea i suggest is 36% with deductions up to $1,000,000. No deductions at all past $1,000,000. I have ran this through my political channels of elected officials, but the senators of my state can't even get on the floor without 2/3 the Senate going on vacation.
Where were these clowns during the Bush tax increases?
Bush cut federal taxes which reduced money going back to the states cities and towns who raised their taxes to make up for the shortfalls. Every state tax and fee was increased while services decreased. In fact, most people paid more in taxes and fee increases after the federal tax cuts.
I've also seen many smokers complaining about the increase in the cigarette tax. Cigarette taxes have been going up for years and they kept their mouths shut then, why?
Makes sense to me. For the first time in my 19 years of filing an income tax return, I wound up owing my state money (about $300). My property taxes also went up, despite the value of my house being stagnant. Yet my federal refund has gotten bigger almost every year.
This the typical rhetoric of the right wing loser. You don't like this administration vote against them. But to espouse this revolutionary rhetoric against a president who not only won handily but also enjoys popular support is pure, sour grapes. You don't like the country's tax system then MOVE OUT!!! Try your luck in Europe and see how their tax system works or raise your kids in Columbia and see how their infrastructure works!
jamesb: You said "unless and until the govt. acts a little more responsible in the way they spend our money, they don't deserve anymore, regardless of who is going to get hit. " So Bush empties the vaults for his war in Iraq driving the debt sky high and Obama is trying to refill them and get us out of this hole and somehow Obama is wrong? Were you around for the last 8 years of irresponsible spending by Bush or is it just selective memory? What's next? Are you going to tell us Bush kept us safe for 8 years except for the little blip called 9/11?
Today, I became 'you guys'. If I feel Chris Dodd is a liar, I become 'you guys.' If I think perhaps the Stimulous Bill should've been read, I become 'right wing.' All I get here is attacks and not any mature debate. The reason, I feel, for the tea parties is that someone (mostly Congress, but the President does bottom line the budget) is asleep at the wheel of spending. While I did get about a thirty dollar a month tax cut, I'm looking at a hundreds of dollars a month budget increase in hidden taxes (thank God the cap and trade scheme failed miserably, but I did get hit by the cigarette tax, and now buy my cigarettes duty free online). The debt has to be paid back. President Bush lost about 1 trillion dollars in the Treasury balance over 8 years, President Obama's budgets are continuing the problem. The tea parties mean stop spending on foolishness. The federal government could've spent the stimulous on energy independence 60% (solar, nuclear and the infrastucture to deliver it), tax cuts 20% (immediate paycheck relief) and infrastructure 20% (interstate commerce is a federal purpose), instead of every pet project under the sun, and actually done a lot of good. Because I'm not in lock-step with Barney Frank, however, I'll be labeled as 'you guys' or 'right-winger'.
You are just too funny. You want the government to be responsible, you say "the debt has to be paid back," but you cheat by buying your cigarettes duty free online, robbing your state of tax revenues. Congratulations, you rank hypocrite.
If you really believe that you have the answer to our debt problems, run for office and present your plan to the public. Don't come here and whine that you have the solution but no one will listen because they are too busy labelling you a "right winger." Run for office and make your case.
Oh, and I notice that you slam Chris Dodd and Barney Frank pretty hard. How about GW Bush- you know, the guy who CREATED this mess? How about the phony, no-numbers-included GOP "budget?"
George Bush? Who? This whole problem was Freddie, Fannie, Nancy, Barney and Chris. Duh! See, I've been watching nothing but Fox News now since January 20 2009.
Oh, wait, what is this? Is this George Bush pusing for home ownership for minorities and low income families? Dang, I heard this was Chris Dodd & Barney Frank! Drats!
I must be quite funny to someone out of their right mind. Perhaps, since I serve my country and never pay the state taxes on cigarettes, those who serve their country are hypocrites for not giving money to the state which had no production of the product. When the state makes or sells cigarettes, they will receive their just cut. Perhaps you misread the part of the above topic which reads 'President Bush lost 1 trillion dollars over 8 years". I would also like educate those on Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which states that when the taxes are too high, the people will circumvent them, which causes an enforcement to oppose such, which must be funded by higher taxes, in which the people will circumvent. I really wouldn't consider not being in lock-step with Barney Frank a slam. And Chris Dodd did deserve the noun described him.
What you're missing with regards to Adam Smith's screed is that even though taxes have remained at a lower rate for the wealthy, they still have circumvented paying the taxes they truly owe.
Are you ignorant or disingenuous?
Here's copy from the top of Fox' homepage:
It's been 235 years since a band of patriots let their feelings about unfair taxation spill into Boston Harbor, but Americans across the country will try to make their own history on April 15 by staging 'Tea Party' protests.
• 'Tea Party' Movement: Much Like Sons of Liberty
• LIVE CHAT! Glenn Beck at 6 p.m. EDT
The "much like sons of liberty" comment/link would have been edited out by any editor worth their salt because it is purely OPINION and a tacit endorsement. Rupert Murdoch/Roger Ailes have done more to destroy journalism in this nation than any other individuals in recent history. William Randolph Hearst was the last media baron this bad.
Maybe they are protesting taxation without representation because Repubs keep losing??? Hey, if they do not want the middle class tax cut from the stim bill, them I'LL TAKE IT!!
Where was the outrage over the $3T deficit from Bush's last budget WITHOUT the costs of the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan??
Does anyone know when ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN sponsored a protest against a President? Fox has proven they are nothing more than tabloid television.
Every single day, on every single newscast and news program since about 1969.
Jeff Gannon has more credibility than FOX
What's the scariest to me is that I know for a fact that there are people who watch FxX and only FxX for their news source, who believe that's the only place they will hear The Truth. OK, I realize that by definition 100% of such people are anything but the brightest crayons in the box, but the indoctrination continues all the same. That network seems more and more to be becoming less a broadcasting enterprise and more a cult!
You can pick and choose which taxes you want to pay because you "served your country." Got it.
You'll pay the taxes when you believe the state is justified in collecting them- when they make and distribute the product you are buying. Got it (I guess. I'm not surprised to find a wingnut here setting down personal conditions for tax payment.)
You have no problem with 91% tax rates as long as they affect only the REALLY, REALLY Rich (as categorized by your own, personal opinion.) Well, at least that follows logically your argument that you get to decide when you pay taxes, and who should pay taxes, and how much.
There's no point in arguing with someone who A) Is a tax cheat (which you are, regardless of whether you "served your country" or not) and B) thinks that only his personal opinion, based on nothing, could make valid policy. You must be very entertaining at parties.
Fox News is reporting what is happening out there. The people are protesting and the people are tired of Obama's agenda. They are promoting America and Americans unlinke the very bias liberal mainstream media. What's the matter....you only want your side hear and not anyone else. At least Fox News always has two opposing opinions on what they report. Does Katie Curic? NOT.
So FxX is some kind of "special" media? Not part of mainstream media? Interesting. Sure, FxX reports what is happening out there, just like every other broadcaster. The difference is their biased commentary on what whatever is happening means. For example, they're masters at broadcasting part of a quotation or situation (i.e., taking things out of context) so they can rile against that part. And FxX's "liberal/conservative viewpoints" come off like a debates between an attorney and a middle school student, because they're set up that way. But at least FxX can say it presented both sides. Not appropriately, but still... And the "people" who are protesting, who are "tired of Obama's agenda" (after a whole almost three months!), did you notice what a very small minority of "the people" they really are? I think it's great that conservatives are finally getting into the spirit of protesting. It's a technique that's been dominated by liberals forever. It's not the protesting that so many of us find fault with, it's FxX News unabashedly taking sides and writing it up as patriotic. And you think the "mainstream media" is biased?