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Edited on Sat Oct-25-08 07:42 PM by chaz4jazz
Dear John,
With all due respect, Senator, I feel it necessary to either refresh your understanding of taxation or teach it to you for the first time. Knowing the kind of student you were in College (Naval Academy), finishing your studies at nearly the very bottom of your class, I assume you were either asleep in your Civics classes (American Constitutional Government 101/102), asleep, drunk, or failed to attend. Now it has been reported by other midshipmen who attended the Academy alongside you that you had breached all sorts of rules - for which any other cadet would have been tossed out - but because your dad was an Admiral (and your grandfather was one, as well) who out ranked the Commanding Officer of the Academy, you were allowed to stay. On top of all the rules you broke and were never severely punished for, you also applied for flight training and were admitted without reservations because of your "legacy", any ordinary cadet with your grades and behavioral problems would have been declined. The flight school training you were allowed to undergo ultimately cost the United States taxpayers for the 4 planes your crashed including the one you recklessly allowed to be shot down over Hanoi - when you should have broken off the assault to save yourself and your equipment but your poor judgment and temper got you 5 years in a POW camp.
All that as background to the fact that you completely do not understand what taxes are, what they are meant for and how the work. Too bad, because after all the years you've been in Congress you should know at least that much.
Why is it you are now attacking Sen. Obama by tell voters that he means to "spread the wealth" and calling him some kind of Socialist? If you knew anything about taxation you would know that ALL taxes, income, property, sales, are meant to "spread the wealth." Your generous senator's salary is being paid for by the generous annual tax payments of probably twenty-five "Joe The Plumbers." If that's not spreading the wealth, I don't know what is. You see, John, when all of us pay taxes (and it's a patriotic deed to pay taxes, to say the least - listen up Ms Palin) we are contributing a portion of our hard-earned monies to a collective (careful about that word, Barack) pool from which the postal workers, government clerks, soldiers and sailors, firemen, librarians, police officers, etc., are paid. All for the common welfare (uh oh, another bad choice of words).
So, when Barack Obama says that he is interested in taxing the upper earnings of some of our citizens a little more than the lower earners, and rightly says he wants to "spread the wealth" well, he's just telling it like it is. He's using taxes as they were meant to be and have always been used (sometimes not too wisely, for sure). Also, in his meaning he wishes to spread the responsibility of making government run and lessen the tax burdens on the less fortunate. After all John, for a lousy student, you didn't do too badly, I mean, not everyone can marry an heiress and fall into 5 million bucks a year.
Oh, and about this crappy student deal, how come you have this in common with GW Bush as well as your voting record and philosophy?
Thanks for listening, now go read a book.
Chaz
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