Democrats Want to “Eliminate The Rich”
Eliminate. Such are the words of Democrats post-Giffords shooting.
Even if NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg wasn’t talking about killing the rich when he said we have to eliminate them, can’t we all agree that his fantasy of having no wealthy people in America by taxing them into a lower class is loony? Shouldn't we start incompetency hearings?
Why is it that American journalists will look for any fake reason to call a Republican an extremist or a kook (or flat out ask them if they are a kook like Chris Wallace did to Michele Bachmann) yet at the same time ignore the actual commonplace extremist and kooky things Democrats say?
Senator Lautenberg had at one time eliminated himself from politics by retiring from the Senate. He was succeeded by Robert Torricelli. By Torricelli’s re-election campaign he had so many ethics problems that he withdrew from the race only weeks before the election.
The Democrats then replaced him on the ballot with Lautenberg. New Jersey’s statutes said it was too late to do that. New Jersey’s Supreme Court, one of the more embarrassing liberal courts in the land, said the Democrats could ignore the statutes so the people “have a choice.” I believe the people chose those statutes the Court ignored.
In case you think Chris Christie has turned my blue state red, remember we still have guys like Lautenberg who want taxes to be so high that there are no rich people. Talk about spreading it around! Where’s Joe the Plumber when you need him?
Here’s the video. Enjoy the socialist crazy.
Post script: Frank Lautenberg, as former CEO of ADP, is beautifully wealthy, and I don’t see him giving away his fortune to the poor so he can be poor too.
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Jun '10
Re: Democrats Want to “Eliminate The Rich”
Wealth, opulence, and comfort should only be acquired in the proper way--by collective bargaining and political extortion.
Feb '11
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Laut's net worth is around $50 million. Perhaps he should start his pogrom at home.
Feb '11
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Apropos the topic, Victor Davis Hanson yesterday, "[Obama] clearly does not like private businesses — except the super wealthy who are liberal and share his refined tastes and politics and have enough millions in “unneeded income” that they figure they will either die before or weather through our transition to European democratic socialism."
May '11
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There are countries that have no rich people. Why, there's one just 90 miles off the coast of Florida that "eliminated" its rich people in 1959-60. Maybe Sen. Lautenberg would consider taking a Congressional junket to one of those countries and have a look around. He might try asking the locals what they want most. He would learn that what they want most is for some big, rich corporations to come to those places and create some jobs. Or they want to immigrate to the United States and become rich themselves.
Jun '10
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Tommy De Seno:
In case you think Chris Christie has turned my blue state red, remember we still have guys like Lautenberg who want taxes to be so high that there are no rich people.
Not quite. We need to make a distinction between the productive rich and the thieving rich. The former are known as capitalists. The latter are merely looters, and you find them mainly in our professional political class. The point of redistribution is not to benefit the poor. It's to create a means by which the thieving rich can get their hands on the loot through graft, bribery and other forms of corruption. And it doesn't stop with "the rich." Eventually the middle-class becomes a target, and then even the poor. Taken to an extreme you get Zimbabwe-like conditions where the entire wealth of a nation is plundered by the kleptocrat in chief.
Apr '11
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Exceptionally well said. Even setting aside actual communist countries, how many of us would want to live in a country that has no rich people and no large corporations? Jamaica, for instance, may be a nice place to visit but would you move your family there and try to make a living?
Sep '10
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Haw about a 50% wealth tax on any federal elected official who has held office for more than 6 years and has a net worth of more than 5 million. It would not bring in any money but would prompt many to retire.
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I've long thought Barbara Boxer our most insufferably God-awful senator -- so much so that I was about ready to retire the prize. But it looks like Fatuous Frank might just make a race of it. Is this guy actually compos mentis?
Jul '11
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Tax the rich, feed the poor, Til there no rich no more.
Sounds like a bad dream, or maybe a bad song, but I'm just curious what the Chavez lovers think happens after that point.
Apr '11
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I don't begrudge the Senator his money. I just wish he accorded the same courtesy to others.
Dec '10
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Tommy, haven't you ever seen bumper stickers that read, "Eat the Rich"?
Well, after you eat them, don't you eventually have to eliminate them?
Re: Democrats Want to “Eliminate The Rich”
Stuart Creque: Tommy, haven't you ever seen bumper stickers that read, "Eat the Rich"?
Well, after you eat them, don't you eventually have to eliminate them? · Aug 19 at 10:29am
Oof.
Mar '11
Re: Democrats Want to “Eliminate The Rich”
How about we pursue policies that give everyone an opportunity to become as wealthy as they want. Of course, some people will always be wealthier but that is surely preferred to a system that makes everyone poorer. I know preaching to the choir but I just felt it had to be said.
May '10
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Tommy, it sounded to me like he said "We've gotta eliminate the waste," not the rich.
This kind of makes sense because the next words out of his mouth are "we've gotta eliminate the fraudulent practice, the uh, expanded things that have no value."
Edited on Aug 19, 2011 at 4:56pmAug '10
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"Why is it that American journalists will look for any fake reason to call a Republican an extremist or a kook (or flat out ask them if they are a kook like Chris Wallace did to Michele Bachmann) yet at the same time ignore the actual commonplace extremist and kooky things Democrats say?"
Those journalists don't realize that people like Lautenberg are kooky, because they drink from the same liberal Kool-Aid. If you're center-left, the far left sounds just a little over the top, but the center-right sounds like a bunch of extremists and the far right is nuts. It's all about the distance from your own assumptions to those of the people you're covering.
This doesn't explain Chris Wallace, who I assume leans more right than left. But in his case there's a better explanation: He was recently hammered by John Stewart for Fox News' bias towards the right, so he was trying to prove otherwise by attacking Bachmann.
May '11
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Please send help! I am in northern New Jersey and represented by Lautenberg, Bob Menendez, and Congressman Bill Pascrell. I can't figure out which is the looniest.