Friday, January 23, 2004
Aaarrrrrgghh
My Right was not born confrontational, but is always susceptible to being baited.
In a recent post objecting to the Bush State of the Union address, No Right Turn derides Bush's non justification of the war in Iraq (I'm mixed on that one), is ansi re the Patriot Act (no argument there) and then objects to making the tax cuts permanent (Georgie Boy certainly didn't hold back - granted).
Then adds this gem, "make the tax cuts permanent (yeah, rob from the poor to give to the rich!". Not many things make my blood boil more than simplistic and cantankerous one liners about tax cuts (tax relief).
I don't enter arguments I know I'm not going to live long enough to finish, i.e. How should the world be structured? Socialism, Capitalism, something else? But if you want to crusade to turn the world into a global kibbutz, fine (crazy, but whatever flakes your pastry). But please do better than "rob from the poor to give to the rich".
How does taking less of what someone has lawfully earned off them equate to illegally stealing money off a disadvantaged person and back handing it to a wealthier person? Take the cliché value, emotion and 'Andertonism' out and look at the words. That is how you are describing reducing tax rates, and I think it is shite.
