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Who Are The Rich? |
By Phil Brennan: Trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and editor of Wednesday on the Web
It was a strategy widely used by the Marxist-Leninists in the Soviet Union -
the divide and conquer tactic of turning class against class. As a result of
this state-sponsored class warfare, millions of Russians whose only crime was
having a few more material goods than their neighbors, faced firing squads
or short brutalized lives in Siberian prison camps. Millions more whose crime
was running independent farms - the so called Kulaks *- were simply
eliminated by starvation decreed by the Kremlin (and their murders covered up
by ... you guessed it ... the New York Times).
The strategy survives, being kept alive and well today by the National
Socialist Democrat Party (NSDP) which learned its lessons well from the
ruthless and demagogic acolytes of Marxism who used it so successfully to
enslave a large part of the world in the 20th century, while posing as a
champion of the common people against the "oppressive rich" (anybody who
owned anything).
The NSDP relies on class warfare to further their goal of creating a
socialist order here in the United States and their principal weapon in their
war against the productive segment of the population, which is responsible
for taking America to the pinnacle of power and financial success by virtue
of their labor and determination to make a better life for themselves, is the
manipulation of federal tax system and their ability to tell monstrous lies
about that system.
As David Horowitz notes in his informative book, "How to Beat the Democrats -
And Other Subversive Ideas," the NSDP portrays the Republican Party as the
party of the rich who care "more about themselves than those left behind."
And they get away with it, Horowitz explains, because the NSDP has "rigged
the game before it starts. Through their control of Congress, Democrats
designed the tax code to make it an unfair system of economic plunder. Under
their code, the harder you work and the more jobs you create, the more you
are taxed. Under their code the bottom 50 percent pay only 5 percent of the
government bill for services they are more likely to use." (Guess for who
these people are expected to vote out of gratitude.)
As a result of this NSDP-rigged system, whenever the GOP tries to provide a
fair shake for every taxpayer, the tax cut is " maliciously" pictured as a
tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Howowitz goes on to note that a tax refund for the very rich does not affect
their lives at all, that not a single member of the super-rich will be able
to buy a yacht, pay for a vacation or an education that he couldn't have
easily afforded before he got his tax cut.
"He can already pay for all that without the refund," Horowitz writes. "Think
about it - he's rich."
Horowitz emphasizes the obvious fact that what a tax cut really does for
those in the upper income brackets is to increase their ability to invest -
in other words, the ability to create jobs and wealth for all Americans, a
direct result of those who invest their capital.
But since understanding this factor of economic life requires a knowledge of
the "dreary science" of economics few Americans possess, the NSDP has been
able to create the perception that an across-the-board tax cut is an unfair
giveaway to the "'haves' as opposed to the 'have nots.'" This, he adds,
creates "a pool of resentment and envy - powerful emotions - that Democrats
convert into a political force."
The force? Marx and Lenin's class warfare.
Arizona's Republican Senator Jon Kyl, a courageous foe of the federal tax
code, and one of the American taxpayer's greatest champions had this to say
in his "The Truth About Taxes." written last February.
While noting that "to most people outside of Washington reducing taxes is a
welcome idea ... for various reasons, special interests and their friends in
Congress will go to great lengths to stop tax cuts, pinning their hopes to
any number of faulty arguments that might accomplish that aim."
Opponents of tax cuts - the NSDP which needs your taxes to keep themselves in
power by bribing the voters with costly government programs -deviously imply
that tax relief is inherently selfish, because tax cuts imperil the funding
of important Washington programs or threaten the future of Social Security
even though " income tax cuts have no impact on the financial health of
Social Security, which is funded through payroll taxes automatically deducted
from workers' paychecks."
These shamefully deceptive distortions, however, "pale in comparison to their
most cherished attack: that Republican tax cuts unfairly favor the wealthy,"
Kyl charged, adding that " we've heard this one before. It is the same
shopworn charge Democrats made against Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981 -- a
myth they still cling to as the years have passed."
Kyl recalls that the NSDP's Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle "recycled
that very charge against President Bush [in Januray, 2002], declaring that
Republicans 'have one unchanging, unyielding solution that they offer for
every problem: tax cuts that go disproportionately to the most affluent.'
Adding cryptically that 'Democrats support tax cuts that work,' Daschle then
blamed the 2001 tax cuts, most of which had not yet kicked in, for creating
deficits, jeopardizing Social Security, prolonging an economic recession, and
a host of other evils. "
Daschle's colleague, House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt joined in the
chorus of deception, calling the Bush tax cuts "biased" and "not fair" to
the middle class, while Senator Ted Kennedy warned he would oppose "another
round of irresponsible tax breaks for special interests and the wealthy."
Noting that "President Bush's 2001 tax cut was geared to help the middle
class (saving an average family of four making $50,000 a year nearly 50
percent in taxes), Kyl asked "Are the Democrats right in arguing that tax
cutting has favored the wealthy while leaving a disproportionate tax burden
on everyone else?"
Kyl cites " information given to Congress' Joint Economic Committee by the
IRS," as proving that the answer to that question is "no."
* The wealthier the American, the greater the proportion of taxes he or she
pays. In 1999, for example, the top one percent of all wage earners earned
19.5 percent of all adjusted gross income reported to the IRS, yet they paid
36.2 percent - or more than one-third - of all federal income taxes. Put
another way, the top 1 percent of taxpayers on average pay double their
proportion of taxes compared to what they actually earn.
* Similarly, the top 5 percent of wage earners made just a third of all
income reported to the IRS, but paid more than half of all federal taxes
collected by Uncle Sam. Overall, the top 25 percent of wage earners in this
country pay more than 83 percent of all federal income taxes, while earning
66 percent of all income.
* Did Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981 give the rich a free ride? Not
according to the IRS. The top one percent are paying a higher share of income
taxes now than they did then - 36 percent today versus 19 percent in 1981.
The top five percent of taxpayers similarly saw their share of taxes rise
from 43 percent in 1981 to more than 55 percent as of 1999.
"If there is good news from these statistics, it's that wealthy Americans
aren't benefiting unfairly while the middle class is hit by taxes," says Kyl
"The bad news is that all Americans are getting squeezed by a tax system that
drains too many dollars from family budgets."
The moral of this lesson: the NSDP " shouldn't add insult to such injury by
being dishonest with the facts. If they think Washington deserves a bigger
share of tax dollars, they should say so, rather than trying to turn their
lust for dollars into a groundless declaration of class warfare. "
NOTE: I've been asked if my use of the initials NSDP is a veiled allusion to
that other former National Socialist bunch, the National Socialist German
Workers Party - National Sozialistische Deutcher Arbeiter Partie, (NSDAP) or,
Nazi, for short. Why perish forbid, how can anyone suggest I'd do such a
thing? (giggle)
*Class Warfare, Soviet Style - The Hang the Kulaks order of 11-8-18
"Send to Penza To Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists
"Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost's must be suppressed without
mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, because we have
now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks." We need to set an
example.
1. You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public sees) at least
100notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers.
2. Publish their names.
3. Take away all of their grain.
4. Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.
"This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of
miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let's choke and strangle
those blood-sucking kulaks.
"Yours, Lenin
"P.S. Use your toughest people for this."
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