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Permalink Reply by Tim H on October 16, 2010 at 8:19pm

We have a real chance to get rid of Corrine Brown this election.
Everyone in House District 3 please vote for Mike Yost!
Let's send Corrine packing.

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Permalink Reply by Wayne Humphrey on October 19, 2010 at 11:36am

Unfortunately, because of the districting, Corrine is going to be there a long time.

Moreover, the majority of those that get to vote for her don't pay federal taxes. By the time their taxes are calculated, their taxable income is near 0.

Furthermore, they get money back because of programs like earned income tax credit (EIC) and child tax credit (CTC).

The only ones negatively impacted and burdened by those taxes are those who actually add to the tax base -- us.

I once read a paper written back in May 1962 -- "The Weight of the Poor: a Strategy to End Poverty." Now this paper was written by some very influential professors in Columbia University that had a great affect on those in power of the Democrat Party today. In it, they describe their "ultimate objective of this strategy-to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income..." Further, it aims to accomplish it by the following:

"First, adequate levels of income must be assured. (Public welfare levels are astonishingly low; indeed, states typically define a “minimum” standard of living and then grant only a percentage of it, so that families are held well below what the government itself officially defines as the poverty level.) Furthermore, income should be distributed without requiring that recipients first divest themselves of their assets, as public welfare now does, thereby pauperizing families as a condition of sustenance.

Second, the right to Income must be guaranteed, or the oppression of the welfare poor will not be eliminated. Because benefits are conditional under the present public welfare system, submission to arbitrary governmental power is regularly made the price of sustenance. People have been coerced into attending literacy classes or participating in medical or vocational rehabilitation regimes, on pain of having their benefits terminated. Men are forced into labor on virtually any terms lest they forfeit their welfare aid. One can prize literacy, health and work, while still vigorously opposing the right of government to compel compliance with these values."

Can you beleive that? They actually believe they have a right to income without working for it! I ask, where is the incentive to work if you have a right to income?

At any rate, this paper reads like a playbook for the Left:

1. Creating a crisis to minupulate congress into passing legislation to guarantee an annual income.

2. precipitate a profound financial and political crisis. The force for that challenge, and the strategy we propose, is a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.

3. As the crisis develops, it will be important to use the mass media to inform the broader liberal community about the inefficiencies and injustices of welfare.

4. And throughout the crisis, the mass media should be used to advance arguments for a new federal income distribution program.

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