National Review: bin Laden is right on taxes

[Enrique]

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2I4NjQzOTY5NjM5ZjlkZjYyMDhkYjc3MGE4MmJhOWY=

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I did appreciate Osama’s denunciation of America’s “insane taxes” and his claim that there are none in Islam, only zakat of 2.5 percent. But Ezekial 45:13 passim discusses taxes in the .5 percent to 1.5 percent brackets, so if we need theological justification for lower rates we can always use that one.

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[Skidmore]

1. Yep, the wet dream of the billionaire.

Ever consider how many desparately impoverished people there are in the ME?

[Deja Q]

2. Osama has the time to look at our convoluted tax system too?

Surely all the time with the facelift surgery, exercise, tanning, haircut, dieting, and all that time applying "Just for Men" to reduce his stress-filled, dialysis-ridden image would have been something akin to a full time job or more?!

Surely the author of that article, praising Osama, is a terrorist sympathizer? Why do they wish to deal with terrorists with a known history of slaughtering people?

I too believe the tax system needs a proper overhaul, but don't expect me to listen to, never mind acknowledge, Osama for one attosecond. He needs to be brought to justice or exterminated as the piece of filth he is. And not at the front of a table hosting a doily-laced tea party for all to deliberate with after downing some crumpets. Or is this attitude too 2003 for the National Review's liking?

[eShirl]

3. the Republicans are taking their marching orders from al Qaeda

apparently....

[Bitwit1234]

4. Well--- now bush and his henchmen want bin laden to set our financial policies

golly, they don't want the congress of the US to pass laws, but they want to take the advice of a madman from the Middle East. Damn.