Posted by
rycK on Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:19:06 AM
The New York Times Counsels Us on Economic Fears in the Middle Class and the Urgent Need for Higher Taxes, Again.
We can always study the economic opinions of the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- as they attempt to ‘form public opinion’ about frequently non-existent economic factors that turn out to be some political statement or a reinforcement of a stogy left-liberal tenet. Somebody once said that economic history must be controlled to justify the economic future.[2] “
Today, we are treated to an essay on economics and tax policy by the second-best known non economics at the Old Gray Lady, Bob Herbert:
“Despite the focus on the housing crisis, gasoline prices and the economy in general, the press has not done a good job capturing the intense economic anxiety — and even dread, in some cases — that has gripped tens of millions of working Americans, including many who consider themselves solidly middle class.”[3]
Really? Then we have not heard about the economy crushing cap and trade circus, the stagnant energy supply schedule induced by liberal Democrats and the potential for enormous tax hikes by Barack Obama and others on the far left? Maybe I was dreaming.
A lament from a victim of Bernie Sanders [Socialist parasite, Vermont[4] [5]] who writes a sad song and dance, which is probably true, although many of these maudlin screeds read like the Lincoln Letter and ends with:
““Today I am sad, broken, and very discouraged. I am thankful that the winter cold is behind us for a while, but now gas prices are rising yet again. I just can’t keep up.”” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
You can always get some liberal Democrat activist to bawl on national TV about any issue that needs a good heavy tax penalty. Are our voters so simple minded as to believe in the current energy ‘plan’ from the Democrats? When will they wake up and realize that farces like Global Warming—not modified to read Climate Change because their models incorrectly predicted that the temperature would increase last year—As if any leftist would allow any more drilling or exploration![6] Let us search for a solution here from Bernie Sanders, a socialist, particularly from his website:
“In filibusters No. 74, 75 and 76, Republicans blocked Senate consideration of bills to lower gasoline prices, promote alternative energy and protect Medicare.”[7]
How many times did Ted Kennedy filibuster oil exploration and nuclear energy expansion? Liberals do not use filibusters on court appointments like Senator Schumer? Really?
Every one of these bills involved punitive taxes on the oil companies and provided nothing that would lower gas prices. We wonder how tax increases; always the leftist solution to any and all social evils[8] might lower prices. These measures would have increased costs and brought in revenues for Congress to spend on their pet projects. The person who wrote the letter to Bernie is going to be sadder and totally broken if he believes in what the sordid left have to offer. 100,000,000 ignoranti died in the gulags and along the roads when they trusted the far left.
The facts are that this is a smear:
“The Democratic energy package would have imposed a 25% tax on any "unreasonable" profits of the five largest U.S. oil companies, which together made $36 billion during the first three months of the year. It also would have given the federal government more power to address oil market speculation that the bill's supporters argue has added to the crude oil price surge.
Republicans, however, have said the bill would do nothing to ease soaring gasoline prices in the United States”.[9]
We can wonder what the word "unreasonable" means here as profits from capitalism are always considered the work of fascists by the left. [10] The EcoNazis consider capitalism, SUVs and other facets of our society as unacceptable.[11] They would not hesitate to destroy our society and make another futile attempt to give us a utopia as they did in the Soviet gulags and the wildness of Cambodia. They are like the Cheka and wish to complete the fine work of the Bolsheviks.
Why doesn’t the New York Times just show us HOW taxes and restricted production could lower prices at the pump? Wouldn’t that be fair? They cannot do this. These parasites will say or do anything to hike taxes and the middle class, despised by Barack Obama especially if they are white, are to pay the price. Do you think the leftists would cut funding of their phony social programs in the major cities?? No.
Herbert rambles on about the woe and misery caused by Republicans of the last few years and concludes with a final letter comment:
“The letters to Senator Sanders offer a glimpse into the real lives of ordinary people in an economic environment that was sculpted to favor the very rich. One of the letters was from a woman in central Vermont who said she and her husband are in their mid-30s, are college-educated and have two young children.
“We are feeling distraught,” she said, “that we may never ‘get ahead’ but will always be pedaling to just keep up.”
This is so hopeless that we obviously need the government to step right in and raise taxes to the roof. That will cure the middle class problems like it did in the Jimmy Carter Malaise Era with high gas prices, huge tax rates to 70% marginal rates and his groveling at the feet of the Iranian Islamo Fascists.
No Democrat will explain to the voters how tax increases and punitive tax measures could ease gas prices or accomplish anything other than feathering the scurvy nests of the leftist parasites like Bernard Sanders.
The Times deals in sorrow, tears, and incessant attacks on the mean old Republicans and offers us a society that is wholly dependent upon the government. Perhaps they admire France or Germany with their socialism, high unemployment and hoards of Islamo Fascists burning cars at night. Al Gore[12] wanted to banish the internal combustion engine with punitive standards and laws and somehow the left with the aid of the New York Times rushes to speed up this disaster.
Another maudlin screed from the Times.
rycK
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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.