Friday, June 17, 2005
What becomes of the bleeding hearted?
"I don't need a tax cut," Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced on the Senate floor. "It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more. I can't eat any more. I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day."
"If you think it's good policy to pay for my tax cut with the Social Security checks of working men and women and borrowed money from China, vote for them (the GOP)," former President Bill Clinton told the Democratic Convention.
"I am a traitor to my class," actor Paul Newman said. "I think that tax cuts for wealthy thugs like me are borderline criminal. I live very high off the hog."
"I want no tax cuts and want to pay MY FULL SHARE of taxes to support the public good," Oregonian Harry Demarest stated on the Web site of United for a Fair Economy, an anti-tax-cut group co-founded by Chuck Collins, heir to the Oscar Meyer wiener fortune.
Delroy Murdock suggests an optional tax be added to tax returns to allow those who think they are "borderline criminal" to pay their "full share." This has been tried on the state level already, with revealing results.
When Massachusetts cut its top tax rate to 5.3 percent in 2001, it let guilty liberals pay the old 5.85 percent rate. According to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, as of June 15, only 930 taxpayers chose to do so on their 2004 returns, generating an extra $246,505. In 2002, 2,215 taxpayers paid the higher rate, yielding $341,829. Among 3.2 million returns filed in 2003, only 1,488 (or 0.046 percent) paid the voluntary higher rate, adding $209,216 to state coffers.
Pro-tax Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., spurned the higher rate that year. "No, I won't" pay some $800 extra, Frank told Boston radio host Howie Carr.
"I don't trust the legislative leadership and Gov. (Mitt) Romney to make the right decisions, so I'll donate the money myself."
With statements like that, Rep. Frank runs the risk of being confused with a... conservative.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Jun 17, 09:43:00 AM:
Barney should use the $800 to buy some dentures.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Fri Jun 17, 11:43:00 AM:
These statements by wealthy leftists are profoundly disingenuous -- they do not even believe them when they are being made. The proof is that they are free to make contributions to federal, state or local government any time they want at any imaginary tax rate. They do not, because (like Rep. Frank) they do not trust the people in power to spend the money the way they want it spent. They want to pay higher taxes, but only if people who do not want to pay higher taxes also pay and only if the people in power spend it according to their wishes.
By , at
Fri Jun 17, 11:57:00 AM:
FWIW, the percentage for 2003 should be 0.465, not 0.0465.
By Enlighten-NewJersey, at
Fri Jun 17, 02:47:00 PM:
Senator John Kerry chose the lower income tax rate also.
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