Proud to Pay My Taxes

[unapatriciated]

Run time: 02:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LAPAXUJEE   Posted on YouTube: April 15, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 15, 2009 By DU Member: unapatriciated Views on DU: 1147

 
I wonder how may teabaggers used their tax return check to pay for their protest.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I've always paid my taxes

and thought it was nuts when people don't want to. What in the world do they think will happen? Do they think wasteful spending will stop? More likely that essential services will stop. I've got some Libertarian friends who have hinted around about this, but we haven't come to an open confrontation about it yet. If they do, I'm going to ask them if they are willing to give up their Social Security and veteran's pensions, for a start.

[unapatriciated]

3. My son was a libertarian and we would go round and round about this...

until I pointed out that it would be those like his brother (who is disabled) that would be the first to lose what little funding they get, not the corporations.
My son is ex-military and was a Pauler, but I raised him to think critically and finally got through to him regarding Paul and his political rhetoric. The best gift he gave me was his vote for Obama.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. good for you

for raising a son who THINKS

[obiwan]

15. That's the "secret" if there is one. Think Critically!

[Liberal_Christian]

17. You're pretty F$#@!ing cool, man. seriously.

I had a bad day at work today because I had to listen to some conservative billionaire wannabe "explain" to me why these tea parties were the "american" thing to do and how you own a business, you get taxed more than you think with the sales tax and every other nickel and dime hidden tax. I was so enraged but couldn't say anything because he was a customer and I'm just a stupid bank teller. I couldn't tell him he's still under Bush's tax plan. I couldn't tell him it would only be raised by 4% for the upper percentile. I couldn't tell him that the sales tax is for the consumer and not the business. I couldn't tell him I was looking at his balance allowing me to realize he is far from a six digit income, let alone a successful business owner which I did not allow me to then ask him if he knew he wasn't going to get taxed that much. I couldn't tell him there are plenty of successful millionaire/billionaire job-providing Liberals and registered Democrats that BELIEVED in a policy where they (the wealthy) pay more than what they're paying now. I couldn't tell him that HIS "saviour", Ronald Reagan, had taxes at 50% for some making as low as 88,000 a year for six of the eight years he was in office (taxfoundation.org). I couldn't tell him that even amidst a slight increase these are some of the lowest taxes waged in decades. I couldn't tell him that HE was un-american. I couldn't tell him that he is so ungrateful for what he has, he has to build his political ideology around complete and utter greed and selfishness. This is the first time I have ever left a huge, rambling response on some random person's blog but I had to. You made my day a little better via your short, sincere statement. You reminded me for a split second why I shouldn't get all worked up when I hear people like that customer today. If there are people out there that use compassion, sympathy, and selfLESSness as a means to teach their children critical thinking; THATS where this nation's true hope lies. Thanks again.

[HisTomness]

4. They will say they are...

but really they're just willing to give up yours.

[unapatriciated]

6. no, I pay mine willingly.

These "Tea Parties" are not about corrupt government spending, since they are about 20 years too late for that.
They are more about the republican party trying to regain control. If they were really concerned about how our tax dollars were spent than they would have protested bush and his give-aways to corporate america.

[obiwan]

14. Me too. BTW I went to a "teabagging" party in Long Beach.

There were 20-30 people there. (There are 450,000 people in Long Beach.) They didn't have a clue. They yelled at me because I had a sign pointing out that most services (streets, sidewalks,parks, libraries, etc.) were paid for with TAXES. They were mean and surly. I got the distinct impression that they were mad because Obama won. Virtually everybody left after one hour. Back to work, no doubt.

Reminded me of Monty Python's "Life Of Brian" where the monks were walking in a line, chanting, and hitting themselves in the head with bricks.

Well, to paraphrase a well-worn right wing mantra, "Get over it."

Obana's margin of victory in the '08 election was 2-1/2 times what Bush's was in 2004. Now THAT's a mandate!

The organizer of this "teabagging" party failed to get the necessary permit. She also pushed my wife and told us we couldn't be there. After I told her we could because there were two of us, (Under local law, you need 3 or more to have an "unlawful assembly") and after I told her I would summon the police if she kept harrassing us, she left us alone. And we left them alone.

Totally clueless, and I predict this "movement" will die out of its own accord. (Too much effort.) Either that or they will become radicalized and be shot by the Guard. Ignorance of what is is no excuse.

The organizer of this event was bitching online because she had no help and no money. Ain't that the Neoconservative way. Well, sister, get used to it unless you have a shitload of money. Reality bites, doesn't it?

As a home owner, I will continue to pay my property taxes as long as I use services paid for with taxes.

[unapatriciated]

16. Long Beach! I miss California and have been planning my escape...

from georgia since we moved here. Only two years to go, than we can transfer back to CA.
There were a few hundred tea-baggers in Marietta (big paulers here). Hannity will be in Atlanta tonight, I have to work or I would be at the counter-protest.

[Hyper_Eye]

2. "Error: You've already recommended that thread." - K&R - n/t

[stlsaxman]

5. turn the music down! can't hear what they say.

bummer. it really sucks.

[jkshaw]

7. This is a good one, unapatriciated

[cooolandrew]

9. There should be posters made up of these with troops, firefighters and etc. >

I think there are some out there not that certain what taxes do.

[poboyross]

10. There's a better question to be asked

What *don't* I want my tax dollars going for? No on wants their taxes wasted, and so much of it is thrown away. Look at Bush and TARP, look at the auto bailouts, look at the trillions that have been committed before the situation is fully analyzed. I would ask, how many folks said over the past 8 years, "I don't want my tax dollars going to these wars" ? I know I heard/read my fair share of it. What's wrong with saying "I don't want blanket statements and fear mongering used to commit trillions to people who wasted it in the first place." ?

What follows is likely ignorant of facts and situations that I'm unaware of, but wouldn't we do better if your tax bill was flipped? Instead of the majority going to federal, why couldn't it go to state...and vice versa. I always appreciate what I see on the state level, but rarely on the federal level. I think if the states were allowed to take care of their interests first, then perhaps so many people wouldn't be mad about taxes in general. Make the federal govt. live off of what the states had to in the past. How much money goes to the Fed, then has to make it back to states in the end? Just a pipe dream, and probably full of holes. I just look at all of the Corruptocrats (not in reference to Dems, but to all of them...seems like they view themselves as aristocrats) and then look at my state and think "Hell, my state legislature does a much better job than Congress".

By the way, it's not that I would give up Social Security.....but I never expect to get it, so I save extra accordingly.

[SkyDaddy7]

11. Wonderful!

Warren Buffett was open and honest about paying taxes, he said he pays a less % of tax than the lady who empties his waste basket...Bill Gates said the exact same thing! These are two richest guys in the nation!

The little girl in the video is very cute!!

[jillan]

12. Bravo! I, too, am proud to pay my taxes.

[jacksmind]

13. I love the stark difference between the TeaBagger hate and the tax-payer compassion.