October 15th, 2008 by Scott
During a campaign stop, Democratic Messiah and Presidential Wannabee, Barack Obama let his socialist values out of the bag. He said this while talking to a plumber who owns his own small-business.
He said, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” You can hear it directly from the horse’s mouth: here.
So let me get this straight. If you run a small business, which would be most business in this country, your taxes are going to go up, while that money is given to people who didn’t earn it.
This means they will have to compensate that loss somehow. This usually means either higher prices of their services or goods or laying off employees.
If these business have to raise their prices, then consumers loose out and have to pay more. We see inflation.
If these business have to lay off their employees to stay out of the red, then we see more American jobs lost.
Nice plan, Obama. Real smart.
June 14th, 2008 by Scott
Pennsylvania just passed a ban on smoking in most public places. It also imposed a $1,000 fine for offenders. They did this in the name of public health. Who can argue with that?
Now I’ve never smoked in my life. A few of my friends do. Most of them do not.
I am not going to dispute the harm of smoking. I know it is bad.
The problem is that congress knows it is bad for you, too. Yet, they tax it so much that they are making HUGE profits from someone’s addiction and unhealthy habit. How is it ethical to profit off of someone else’s cancer?
To me, there is one answer. Congress is just as addicted. Except they are addicted to the money they rake in from this poison.
Ethically, congress had only two options.
Option one, get rid of all cigarette taxes, thus getting rid of blood money. I’m all for congress reducing taxes in any form.
Option two, ban cigarettes altogether. Classify it along with Cocaine or Heroin and make it illegal. If tobacco is as bad as congress says it is, why don’t they just ban it all instead of doing this wimpy “no smoking here or here, but there is okay.”
Personally, I don’t care which option they take.
So the question is: Congress, can you kick your own addiction?
