Only in America

This is making the e-mail rounds, but it's so very relevant, I had to post it:

10) Only in America ... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

 

9) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans- 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

 

8) Only in America could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code: Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

 

 

7) Only in America ... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

 

6) Only in America ...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.

 

5) Only in America ..could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

 

 

4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

 

3) Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

2) Only in America ... could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

 

1) Only in America ... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

 

 

Thought for the Tax-Paying Americans

I wonder how many of the Congressional millionaires, Like Darrell, John Kerry, and Nancy Pelosi, will be paying their fair share of taxes.

 Congressional Wealth

Hopefully they did not miss Joe Biden's memo:

Biden: Paying higher taxes is patriotic

“Wealthy people are just as patriotic as middle-class people, as poor people, and they know they should be doing more. We’re not supposed to have a system with one set of rules for the wealthy and one set of rules for everyone else.”

 Unlike this guy:

Congressional Fool: Charlie Rangel

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D / N.Y.) is the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.

Like most politicians and like all Dummycrats, he doesn't mind spending money - as long as it's ours and not his.

From Leo:

Morality and Charlie Rangel's Taxes

Ever notice that those who endorse high taxes and those who actually pay them aren't the same people?

Consider the curious case of House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, who is leading the charge for a new 5.4- percentage point income tax surcharge and recently called it "the moral thing to do."

About his own tax liability he seems, well, less fervent.
Mr. Rangel soon admitted having failed to report rental income of $75,000 over the years.

First he blamed his wife for the oversight because he said she was supposed to be managing the property.

Then he blamed the language barrier.

"Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they'd start speaking Spanish," Mr. Rangel explained.

Mr. Rangel promised last fall to amend his tax returns, pay what is due and correct the information on his annual financial disclosure form. But the deadline for the 2008 filing was May 15 and as of last week he still had not filed. His press spokesman declined to answer questions about anything related to his ethics problems.

Besides not paying those pesky taxes, Mr. Rangel had other reasons for wanting to hide income. As the tenant of four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, the Congressman needed to keep his annual reported income below $175,000, lest he be ineligible as a hardship case for rent control. (He also used one of the apartments as an office in violation of rent-control rules, but that's another story.)

Mr. Rangel said last fall that "I never had any idea that I got any income'' from the villa.

Try using that one the next time the IRS calls.

Read more about Charlie here. And here.
(Be sure to check out the links!)