specialK wrote:
] Vile wrote:
] ] adamist wrote:
] ] ] ] Congressional negotiators beat back efforts yesterday to
]
] ] ] ] expand and preserve tax refunds for poor families, even
] ] ] ] as they added $13 billion in corporate tax breaks to a
] ] ] ] package of middle-class tax cuts that could come to a
] ] ] ] vote in the Senate today.
] ]
] ] And, my dear adamist, you would probably be the first one to
]
] ] claim that the last tax surplus refund helped sink our
] ] economy. Please stop playing both sides of an issue just to
]
] ] support your party line. If you hate Bush, fine, but you
] ruin
] ] your own party's already shot-out credibility. Please shut
] ] the fuck up or your pathetic, one-sided, tunnel-vision will
] ] only strengthen the Bush campaign. By filling up
] Memestreams
] ] with your awful pro-Kerry amateur punditry, you have acted
] as
] ] an excellent campaign worker for the GOP.
]
] Yes, let's talk about this for a minute. Maybe you're all
] going to label me some kind of anti-poor person, but I think
] poor people get PLENTY of tax breaks and access to other
] programs. For example, in New York City, ONE IN FOUR people
] are on Medicaid, according to the Daily News. This is going to
] cost the city more than $4 BILLION dollars next year. I for
] one, am sick of our society of entitlement. What sense of
] entitlement am I referring to? I work as a public relations
] executive in Manhattan. While representing an affordable
] housing development in Yonkers, I visited the residence while
] it was undergoing a major renovation. Tenants were getting
] entirely new homes, new kitchens, bathrooms, the whole
] shebang. The place looked great. When I asked one woman what
] she thought of her new house, she told me she was upset it
] didn't have marble floors. Well, sorry. Those were a real
] budget buster for the subsidized housing that the taxpayers
] make possible.

Well said, as usual, specialk. We aren't ALL going to label you an "anti-poor person." The last tax refund all but bankrupted our national economy (oh, wait! It totally did!). The bleeding hearts use this as another mode to attack conservatism in America, yet when the decision is reversed, they will use THAT to attack conservatism as well. This seems about as inane as most blind liberal rhetoric. What's worse is that those who need aid the most do not get it at all, while others (who certainly have the time) find every service offered and take advantage of it at the expense of those who dare to work and those who are actually unable to do such. While commu...er uh...Democrats like Adamist would have us believe that Kerry will provide our poor with the marble floors they so desire, it becomes clear that they have no means to do that but taxing the hell out of the middle class and the rich. In a city that cannot even get the buses to run on time, and cannot afford to pay its teachers as much as its garbagemen, maybe the lazier denizens of poordom need a boot to the ass. I don't consider myself an anti-poor person either (Hell, I qualify as poor), but I have yet to take anything that I did not earn myself. I am still alive and doing better with each passing year. There really aren't that many excuses for laziness.

RE: Bid to Save Tax Refunds for the Poor Is Blocked (washingtonpost.com)