Before leaving the Democratic Presidential race for some time (let it marinate, it’s really too early people) let me say a few words about Mike Gravel.
I think if most of the people who watched last night’s debate were given truth serum, they would be cheering for Gravel, a former Alaska Senator who went all Howard Beale on Bush last night, and by extension on the rest of the Democratic field.
There are many times when all of us say exactly what he’s saying. The war was lost when it was started. The next one to die there is a new crime. We’ve got criminals running this country and we ought to treat ’em like what they are.
But when power starts smelling close — and it smells awful close for a lot of Democrats these days — that’s not what you say. You get all diplomatic, get a big stick and shove it up your ass, and you smile, smile, smile. Gravel is like a fart at a cocktail party, a big one, and the old guy who did it smiling that big ol’ smile of his as if to say, "don’t tell me your shit don’t stink, I’m old enough to know better. And I can say what I really feel because no one takes me seriously anyway."
Of course a real Gravel boomlet
would give Republicans great cause for hope. They would be jumping
up-and-down with glee, attacking not only Gravel but his supporters.
Even though every one of their candidates are just as batshit crazy to
the right as they accuse him of being to the left. And, to tell you the
truth, some of Gravel’s more batshit ideas are identical to the crap they’re peddling. (Gravel is the only Democrat supporting the so-called "fair tax" — which would replace all income tax with sales tax.)
Presidents are not kings. Bad tactics aren’t strategy. Slavery isn’t a
service to God. Making murder bang-bang easy does not make it less common. I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. We don’t need Dukes and Counts and Emperors in America,
ordained by their fathers with all the nation’s assets and power, passing them onto their
children until the last generation.
Now that I have exercised my own Inner Gravel, let’s get back to work.
Good and perfect.
Precious work.
Good and perfect.
Precious work.
I’m not as familiar with those “fair tax” proposals. What do you consider “batshit” about them?
I know that there are arguments that sales tax is regressive in the sense that those who need to spend most of their income on necessary goods would pay the biggest portion of their income. However, if you exempted goods necessary to simply live and survive in our society, that would appear to address that point.
Gravel’s page you linked to talks about a “prebate” instead of an outright exemption. States like mine (Minnesota) have been exempting clothing and groceries from the state sales tax for a LONG time now, so why he goes the route of a “prebate”, which would require an extra infrastructure to manage and control, is beyond me.
I’m not as familiar with those “fair tax” proposals. What do you consider “batshit” about them?
I know that there are arguments that sales tax is regressive in the sense that those who need to spend most of their income on necessary goods would pay the biggest portion of their income. However, if you exempted goods necessary to simply live and survive in our society, that would appear to address that point.
Gravel’s page you linked to talks about a “prebate” instead of an outright exemption. States like mine (Minnesota) have been exempting clothing and groceries from the state sales tax for a LONG time now, so why he goes the route of a “prebate”, which would require an extra infrastructure to manage and control, is beyond me.
The idea of the prebate is so that there are not exemptions and loopholes. The prebate would eliminate any taxes paid up to the poverty level of spending. If you exempt the sales tax on food and clothes then that opens the pandora box of favors. Also the rich buy more expensive clothes while the lower and middle income earners usually shop at outlets and spend quite a bit less. Also another interesting part of the FairTax which makes it progressive is because the tax is only placed on NEW goods, so if you bought a used car you would not pay the tax. hope this helps, go Gravel!!!!
The idea of the prebate is so that there are not exemptions and loopholes. The prebate would eliminate any taxes paid up to the poverty level of spending. If you exempt the sales tax on food and clothes then that opens the pandora box of favors. Also the rich buy more expensive clothes while the lower and middle income earners usually shop at outlets and spend quite a bit less. Also another interesting part of the FairTax which makes it progressive is because the tax is only placed on NEW goods, so if you bought a used car you would not pay the tax. hope this helps, go Gravel!!!!
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