Media Research Center on tax cuts for the evil rich

Befuddled Bob Schieffer: 'Why Do These Rich People Need Another Tax Cut? They're Already Rich' "Conveying his no-so-profound economic reasoning, Schieffer saw a pot of money to be absconded: “I mean, they're already rich. They seem to be doing pretty well as it is now. Why cut their taxes some more?” After Ryan explained his proposal would maintain current tax revenue levels while eliminating deductions and loopholes used by the wealthy, a baffled Schiefier ruminated."

CBS Rues Unfairness of Rich Not Paying Enough Without Noting More Than a Third of Americans Pay Nothing "After allowing a Cato expert to note the economic damage caused by too-high tax burdens on the most productive, Doane countered him by touting “Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength,” a bunch of left-wing millionaires who want tax rates to be hiked for the rich..."

Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength"... when Lehman brothers went bankrupt, NYC suddenly faced a huge drop in income tax revenue.
"People seem to think that high-income earners are “stealing from grandma”. They aren’t. They get a paycheck – often from the company that they started and own. And they employ many people.
"How about an income tax cut for any person or business who hires a new employee this year (with rules against simply firing and then re-hiring people) ?
"Governments don’t create jobs. Only people create jobs."  From the comments to this blog.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/mikelester

Keep in mind that the Tunnel Dweller is a retired union tradesman who has always been an hourly-paid employee. I'm a tool-bag-carrying mechanic who understands a bit about economics and the drag the left is on free enterprise and creativity.

DOJ Source: Gov’t Muslim ‘Outreach’ Jeopardized Active Terror Investigations

Pajamas Media  "An explosive, must-read interview brings sunlight to our counterproductive "outreach" programs. The case of the missing Somali men from Minneapolis highlights the failure and the absurdity."....

"But another troubling claim came out during our interview: “Muslim outreach” programs by U.S. government agencies to terror-tied Islamic groups have directly interfered with ongoing terrorism investigations."....
"But at the same time that FBI agents were testifying in the [Holy Land Foundation] trial that CAIR is a Hamas front there was serious disagreement inside DOJ and the FBI about whether we should continue to work with CAIR or cut them loose. So now we do both."

Anti-CAIR  "We believe that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR), is a clear and present danger to our Constitution and our way of life. We will continue to expose CAIR's involvement in supporting Islamist terrorists, terrorist-sponsoring organizations and groups in the United States."

Lefty Icon Helen Thomas to Lead Anti-Israel Protest During Netanyahu Visit to US, Will Receive Award From Code Pink…

Weasel Zippers  "Thomas wil give the keynote address at the Move Over AIPAC conference, and will receive an award from the women’s pacifist organization Code Pink, one of the hundred [l]eft-wing American organizations behind the conference."

However, the Tunnel Wall utterly rejects the "Hurry up and die" comment by the author of this article.

California in the Balance

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Victor Davis Hanson  "We now see highway patrolmen and city police, in the manner of South American law enforcement, out in force. Everywhere they are monitoring, watching, ticketing — no warnings, no margins of error — desperate to earn traffic fines that might feed the state that feeds them. I could go on. But you get the picture that we are living on the fumes of a rich state that our forefathers brilliantly exploited, and now there is not much energy left in the fading exhaust to keep us going.

"I see California in terms now of the razor’s edge with disaster not far in either direction. A postmodern affluent lifestyle hangs in the balance here without a margin of error. Let me give some examples."...

Palin a hit at tea party rally in Madison

American Thinker  "President Obama certainly has a record, and that's why we're here. Hey media, it's not inciting violence and it's not hateful rhetoric to call someone out on their record, so that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do it to be clear. That's right. We're here, we're clear, get used to it.
"We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, Wisconsin. It starts here. It starts now, Mr. President. Game On!"

New Media impresario Andrew Breitbart introduced Sarah Palin at the tea party rally in Madison yesterday.   "But in order to get to the stage, he and other tea partiers had to run a gauntlet of screaming, gesturing, frenzied labor union thugs who were tossing sexual insults at Sarah Palin that would have burned the ears of a dockworker."

Some of the bravest people...

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion ..."are black Tea Party supporters, who must endure taunts like this:" (video and sound)

Lovely: Foul-Mouthed Leftist Protesters “I Wipe My A$$ With the American Flag” (Video)
"Don’t expect to see this in the state-run media…Foul-mouthed, vulgar socialist idiots harassed tea party patriots in Portland, Oregon at the Tax Day Protest in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
"This is the angry American left in full display."

Explosive New Book Charges Obama Invites Attack on U.S.

Regnery

Human Events  "Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi.  A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read:  “I am with KSM.”"...

...."Thiessen told Amanpour, “There have been so many so misstatements told about the enhanced interrogation techniques, comparing them to the Spanish Inquisition and the Khmer Rouge, and I have to tell you Christiane, you are one of the people who have spread these mistruths.”
"An incredulous Amanpour replied, “Excuse me?” "
From Sparks Fly as 'Courting Disaster' Author Clashes with CNN's Amanpour
Hat tip to Joy Roeder, Garibaldi, Oregon

The Trump Moment; Give me anything but another celebrity apprentice.

National Review Online "Trump wants to be the anti-Obama. Obama is too soft; Trump is tough. Obama knows nothing about business; Trump is God’s gift to American capitalism. Obama is painfully thoughtful in his affect; Trump is brash. They share much more important qualities in common, though. Like the Obama of 2008, Trump is an arrogant celebrity with a talent for branding who knows much less than he thinks and vastly overestimates his ability to fix the country’s problems.
"We’ve been here before." Rich Lowry

Obama gives jihadists the olive branch and Ryan the hickory stick.

Andrew C. McCarthy "Ryan was reeled in by the suggestion that the invitation was an olive branch, a White House concession that he had grappled responsibly with a monstrous problem and that a gracious, cooperative presidential response was in order. But it was a setup. The Chicago mob strategically seated Ryan a few paces from the lectern, whence the don went Al Capone on him. The congressman was made into a prop, Exhibit A in a presidential tirade that mocked his plan and his party as scourges of the elderly, the destitute, and the chronically ill."
....
"As the Obama administration’s rough treatment of Representative Ryan shows, it’s not a comfortable time to be a member of Congress who starts asking a lot of questions this president doesn’t want to hear. Fortunately for the economy, it appears that Ryan is not backing down. For the sake of our security, though, somebody up on the Hill better step up. It is past time to ask: What on earth is this administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood?"

WSJ: Was he serious?

Hot Air 10:12 am on April 14  "The Wall Street Journal editorial board couldn’t believe what it heard yesterday in Barack Obama’s deficit speech .  Well, believe is probably the wrong word, since Obama offered little of substance other than rhetorical bombs aimed at Paul Ryan, accusing him of trying to kill an entire generation of retirees while offering nothing specific to oppose it.  The WSJ dismantles Obama’s speech in their lead editorial as fundamentally demagogic and as unserious as a President can get:"....
"If this is what passes for a major policy speech, this administration has completely run out of gas."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chipbok

Mona Charen: Obama’s Demagoguery  "Last week, Rep. Paul Ryan was asked whether he and the Republicans were making themselves vulnerable to demagogic attacks by taking on entitlement spending directly. “We are,” he replied. “They are going to demagogue us, and — and it’s that demagoguery that has always prevented political leaders in the past from actually trying to fix the problem.”
"You might have expected President Obama to be shamed out of his worst instincts by that prediction. He wasn’t."

Obama Cedes the High Ground   "Paul Ryan was actually hurt by the president’s remarks. He expected better. He somehow believed he and the GOP leadership were now players in the budget game and not tackling dummies. What he and Speaker Boehner don’t seem to realize yet is what a gift the Republicans in Congress have been given. With his speech at GWU which was long on invective and short on inspiration, the president essentially ceded all the high ground on fiscal matters to the opposition. He announced he does not want a solution to America’s deficit and debt crisis."

Thomas Sowell on Taxes and Politics

Townhall  "For more than 80 years, the political left has opposed what they call "tax cuts for the rich." But big cuts in very high tax rates ended up bringing in more revenue to the government in the Coolidge, Kennedy, Reagan and Bush 43 administrations. This included more-- repeat, more-- tax revenue from people in the highest income brackets than before.
"That was because high-income people took their money out of tax shelters like municipal bonds and invested where they could get a higher rate of return..."

Ideals Trump Interests in Obama's Libya Policy

Raymond Ibrahim  "How about "doing what's right" in Darfur, where countless non-Muslims have been butchered by the Islamist regime in Khartoum for these many years? How about "doing what's right" regarding the persecuted, indigenous Christians of the Islamic world? (Whereas one of Obama's reasons for intervening in Libya was that mosques were unintentionally being destroyed — he has been silent in word and deed regarding the numerous churches intentionally being destroyed in the Muslim world.)"