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2010-01-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-15 10:41|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Absolutely outrageous. Union members should vote NO on this and share the pain with their neighbors.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-15 14:03|| 2010-01-15 14:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm in a union (mandated by position) and received a card last Dec. to send to The White House pleading against the tax. We did not have a "vote" in the matter. I threw the card away (I guess that was my "NO" vote.), hoping that Zero and the gang would go ahead with it, thus finally getting through to many of my bone-headed union bretheren.

Too bad he caved, but the Equal Protection Clause / Fourteenth Amendment could kill the exception. Let's hope there is someone in Congress with the testicular fortitude to look into this.

As cut and pasted from another post: I got my bi-weekly paycheck today - increase in Fed taxes by 1.45%. Not a lot of $, but most assuredly a "Tax Hike," and I'm anything but "Wealthy."

The lies of this administration become increasingly apparent. The question is what, if anything, the voting population will do about it....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-01-15 14:15|| 2010-01-15 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, good. Another reason for everybody to love unions...

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-15 14:24|| 2010-01-15 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 as Uncle noted - won't stand up to an Equal Protection challenge, just like the whore-purchases (Ben and Mary)

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-15 15:04|| 2010-01-15 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Uncle Phester, your tax rate didn't change, only the amount of withholding. It gives the Government a tax-free loan of your money. You will get it back when you file next year. This in a time of near-depression. Take more money out of private circulation. They were hoping no one would notice such a small amount.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-15 15:07|| 2010-01-15 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Deacon Blues, I wouldn't be so sure that I'll be getting it (the interest free loan depriving me of use and, possibly, profit = defacto tax increase) back next year....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-01-15 16:00|| 2010-01-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Recall that Caliphornians did not get this year's tax refunds on a timely basis or in a negotiable instrument.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-15 16:04|| 2010-01-15 16:04|| Front Page Top

#8 And for those of us in the Clueless Socialist Workers Paradise of California, we already had a 10% increase in withholding courtesy of exactly the same liberal politicians/thieves. 3 more years of this, and Bambi doesn't give a crap about anything but the institutionalization of his socialist agenda, salting the civil service ranks forever with liberal managers and lawyers, further salting the federal bench, and letting the regulations and executive orders he has/will issue constrict the noose of governance ever tighter.
Folks, in case you haven't thought of it, I'm beginning to wonder if my feelings aboutwhat my goverment has become are similar to those of the founding fathers...before they founded the present government. We are slipping into a place where the people who run the government think they really are our Masters, and plan to keep it that way.

What are we going to do about that?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-01-15 17:44|| 2010-01-15 17:44|| Front Page Top

#9 What are we going to do about that?

At every opportunity, vote the candidate of the governing party out of office.

Posted by Blackbeard Omomock5867 2010-01-15 22:00|| 2010-01-15 22:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Easy Bumper sticker
REELECT NOBODY

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-15 22:37|| 2010-01-15 22:37|| Front Page Top

#11 write note to selves - next revision to the Constitution add entry to the effect that voters get the option of none of the above which upon plurality vote bans all listed candidates in that category for any office for 10 years.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-15 23:11|| 2010-01-15 23:11|| Front Page Top

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