Do America’s political “leaders” really want the economy to improve?
Let’s take a closer look at that elemental question, shall we? First, the feds shoved hundreds of billions of dollars into already bloated government bureaucracies and called it an economic “stimulus.” Also, in the process of passing that “stimulus,” they quietly reversed President Bill Clinton’s landmark welfare reform legislation, putting state governments back on the “bounty system.”
That means they get paid for adding people to the welfare rolls, not taking them off.
On top of that, President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies are pushing costly socialized medicine and “cap and trade” proposals that, if passed, would result in massive increases in health care and energy costs for the vast majority of American families.
And while Obama has yet to directly raise taxes on the middle class (that’s coming), God forbid you fall behind in paying the exorbitantly high taxes you’re currently assessed.
How come? Well, according to a recent report prepared by national taxpayer advocate Nina Olsen (believe it or not, government pays for “taxpayer advocates,” too), the Internal Revenue Service issued 475% more liens a year ago than it did back in 1999.
From CNN Money:
A lien slams a taxpayer’s credit score and can remain on a credit report anywhere from 10 years to 15 years or more, depending on the policy of the credit bureau.
That means it harms a person’s ability to get an affordable loan. And it can hurt his chances of getting a job or an insurance policy since employers and insurers often check credit history. So potentially his costs go up while his earning potential goes down along with his potential to be a source of tax revenue for Uncle Sam in the future.
Worst case scenario: It may mean the taxpayer ends up needing to tap Uncle Sam for cash.
“If the filing of a tax lien drives up a taxpayer’s costs and renders him or her unemployed or underemployed, the government may be forced to make outlays in the form of unemployment benefits, food stamps and the like,” Olson wrote.
Ummm … “May?”
Duh … that’s the whole point!
The dumber and poorer government can make larger numbers of American citizens, the more America “needs” government … and, as a result, the more money government “needs.”
Tell ‘em, Trent …
By Liberty For Me January 11, 2010 at 11:11 am
Its all a plan to make us peasents and fully dependant on the fed.I cant believe people dont see through this.
The somewhat bright side of people loosing their credit is they will be forced to live by their means.Which may lower standards,but will give a renewed feeling of ownership.At least till the property tax man comes.
If it gets to the point they start foreclosing on federal liens they will own our property….Then how will it be different than the U.S.S.R.
It is a slow but steady stealing of our rights.When will the uprising come?
By southernmapart January 11, 2010 at 11:49 am
The uprising won’t come until all is gone. Too many people on the dole, or have relatives on government payroll. They don’t want to “rock the boat” or “tip over the bucket.”
Be that as it is, there are some of us chip, chipping away. I hope to be around to watch the implosion.
My house in the Upstate is cold, I mean really cold at about 50 degrees inside, because I cannot afford to heat it properly and pay my taxes. The county tax offices were roasting at about 80 degrees when I was down there on Friday.
Chip, chip, chip …
By No Name January 11, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Politics as usual in the U.S.
Create beholden voter blocks…..this was also the strategy behind the faied Bush\Mel Martinez great Immagration plan……Shrub and brother Jeb used some Texas math and said “lets get us some brown to balance all that black”.
Why would they vote for us Jeb….they are all Catholics Georgie…believers like you…trust me….open that border and let them new slaves inflate the housing bubble by working for nothing.
Real Estate cash flowed all over the GOP.
Now with the Reid racism leak the Clinton’s get exactly what they want … a completely failed Obama with Healthcare sinking him and they get to kick back and run in 2012 with a reform position. No Clinto fingerprints visible.
Trent Lott was removed by Bush because he would not go along with the Bush stupidity….he gave them the ammo sure….but it was Bush so he could do what he did best destroy the country with an idiotic war and a passion for using the Treasury to bail out his friends.
Obama is entering the “McNabb Zone” ………he is screwing up all the time but you can not say bad things because he is black and all the white quaterbacks\Presidents….think Bernie Kosar\Jeff Garcia\George Bush…..laid waste to everything they touched and no one burned them like we are screaming at Obama.
It is Afro-American’s time to nationall screw up and redirect tax payer money to anything they want…because Republicans allowed it to happen for 40 years with all the “brothers” in the Military Industrial Complex and later in August of 2008 with the Goldman Banksters.
Hey Mr. President……Michelle pay attention
You are doing so poorly….. what would it really cost you to dump the Bushies.
Dump Gates
Dump Geithner
Dump Bernake
Dump Healthcare……no one cares.
Really why not because this story only ends badly….at least go out with a team you got to pick.
By Billy Bob January 11, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Geithner was not a Bushie
By Pat Hendrix January 11, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Ah, bullshit. These are stopgap measures meant to placate people while the cleptocrats in both parties ship every job in this country to China and let the banks pilfer everything we have. The middle class is shrinking – and Bush cut the tax rate and gutted regulation (Clinton, too) of the banks, how can that be?
You moan about socialized medicine, abortion and “reverse racism” while both parties let pharma, the insurance industry and the banks own the country. And when the “socialists” complain that our country is being pounded in the ass, you howl “free market, free market!!” Right, when Roger Milliken arranges to set slave wages with the Communist Chinese (really they’re mercantilists) to ship thousands of SC jobs to SE Asia, what you are seeing is the benign hand of the market. Right. Maybe we should make all those poor folks at Textile Firm Milliken & Co. become internet entrepreneurs like Thomas Friedman advocates. Ugh, what garbage. Aside from all the latent racism, anti-Semitism and reflexive militarism, Pat Buchanan might have been right.
Term limits. Term limits. Hell, with’em all.
By dawn January 11, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Pat: You’re asking leaders to limit their own powers with term limits. Good luck with that. They’ll never do it. They’ll always say that term limits are there and are determined by the voters on election day. Good comments. Come out to play more often.