Before you vote, another thing to think about

I already wrote one blog today, but am inspired to write another.

The Comrade put together something called the "Debt Commission" to think up new ways of putting the USA more into debt. No, I'm sorry, that should be, to think up new ways to increase the tax burden on US citizens. Oops! I mean, to try to hammer out a plan to help the USA retain some sovereignty from Red China, which owns our butts at the moment. They bought a lot of our debt.

Toward this end, the Comrade named Jan Schakowski (dem-IL), among others, to this little committee. Couldn't have picked a better person to promote the cause of tax and spend and spend and spend and spend... She's an addle-brained machine political hack from Chicago. And I believe even her husband is on the government payroll in some useless but highly-remunerated government job. Or a lobbyist or something. If Schakowski's on this committee, the electorate doesn't have much of a chance of survival. I shudder to think who else might be working relentlessly on crushing American liberty through taxation.

At any rate, earlier reports said the Debt Kommissars were considering a V.A.T. tax -- basically a sales tax on wholesale goods, which is then passed along to consumers. The V.A.T. is very popular in Europe -- and look what it's done for Greece and France.

But the latest report is that the Debt Kommissars are likely to recommend eliminating the income tax break that's currently allowed on mortgage interest. And, WSJ says:

At stake, in addition to the mortgage-interest deductions, are child tax credits and the ability of employees to pay their portion of their health-insurance tab with pretax dollars. Commission officials are expected to look at preserving these breaks but at a lower level, according to people familiar with the matter.

The officials are also looking at potential cuts to defense spending and a freeze on domestic discretionary spending.

In other words, don't reduce outrageous over-the-top spending, but do raise taxes.

The same article notes, "The White House has said these and other breaks cost the government about $1 trillion a year."

OK, first of all, contrary to marxist opinion, the money in question does not belong to the government. It belongs to citizens. To say that the failure to steal a certain amount of private property from citizens is a "cost" to the government is really pretty much a pile of steaming crap and an insult to us all. It's NOT THEIR MONEY. It only becomes their money under threat of seizing the rest of our property and putting us in jail. Let's face it. That's what this all comes down to.

I mean, would you voluntarily fork over 30% to 40% of your earnings to a bunch of clowns who have loudly and proudly demonstrated that they are completely irresponsible with money? You know, if you give that drunken pan-handler $5.00, he's not going to buy food with it, he's only going to buy some more cheap wine. Such is the federal government and the Debt Kommissars.

Second, leave it to the dems to first look at grinding citizens more deeply into the dirt rather than giving up any of those specious little bribes they dangle in attempts to lure potential voters, like "free" health care -- which is already costing us a fortune and leading many large employers to cancel the benefits they currently offer.

The government racks up TRILLIONS of dollars of debt building Turtle Tunnels in Florida and funding research into new ways to preserve dead insects, and then they turn to us and say, "Gee, you folks are just going to have to pay a little more for all this."

Here's news, you jackwagons in DC -- We never wanted this bullshit to begin with. YOU pay for it! You're making six figures and snuffle up as many perks and bennies as you can fit inside the trunks of your chauffered limos. You pay for it. I can't even find a job.

On the up side -- Nice that this information comes out a week before the elections. Add the elimination of income tax credits to congress's failure to extend the Bush Tax Cuts -- and they're putting us all in the poor house. And why? To coddle and baby their SEIU and AUW thugs, the bumbling, illiterate members of the Teachers unions and the lay-abouts at the Post Office.

What a country, huh?

Just one more extremely good reasons to vote the bums out.

Save the Republic.