Critics of the Tea Party – An Analysis (Part 2)
by james baker | 4:59 pm, April 21, 2010
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Earlier, I posted an analysis of Ali Mickelson’s comments in "Critics of the Tea Party." In this Part 2, I analyze Ray Harlan’s comments appearing in the same video footage. Ray is representing t…
Critics of the Tea Party – An Analysis (Part 1)
by james baker | 12:10 am, April 21, 2010
Yesterday, a post by Ari entitled "Critics of the Tea Party" appeared on PPC. The post featured two brief on-site interviews at the Denver 2010 Tax Day Rally. The first interview was with an Ali Mickelson of Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. I decided to analyze her comments. My analysis follows.
1) She says that 98% of Americans have benefited from TARP. Mickelson must have a very limited time horizon. I know college students who unnecessarily ran up huge college debt. They are now stuck with crippling payments for decades to pay it off. They are experiencing pain, not benefit.
2) She refers to tax cuts. However, I am unaware of any tax cuts.
3) She refers to taxes as "tax benefits." Yet, the growth in government payroll indicates that government bureaucrats are the primary beneficiaries. One person’s benefit is another’s burden.
4) She thinks such government largesse is sound policy. Slavery is sound policy?
5) She claims to identify with the Tea Party regarding heavy taxation. So, where are the across-the-board tax cuts that cancel heavy taxation? Absent such tax cuts she is merely pretending to "mirror" Tea Party concerns.
6) So, exactly what does it mean for a tax to be accountable, transparent, and fair? By her standard, perhaps it is only fair that those sucking most at the entitlement teat be held accountable for their sucking by being required to transparently pay the most in tax. Something tells me that her "accountable, transparent, and fair" mumbo-jumbo is just Marxist code-talk for "tax the rich."
7) She sums up by claiming that the Tea Party and CFPI ideals align. Yet, I see no evidence of alignment whatsoever. Her claim is just a deceitful infiltration tactic designed to diffuse Tea Party passion.
Romanoff and Sestak, Targets of White House Crime
by james baker | 5:48 pm, February 22, 2010
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Democrat Andrew Romanoff is challenging appointed Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) in the 2010 mid-term elections.
On September 27, 2009, the Denver Post reported that Romanoff had been offered a job i…
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