THEY'RE STILL OUT THERE 

Have you been reading about the Worker's World national conference?  OK ... true.  This gathering of 300 really strange people wasn't exactly newsworthy; except, perhaps, to remind us that Marxists and communists of various stripes are still out their spewing their nonsense ... as if we had to be reminded of this with Barack Obama in office.  Here's a link to the Workers World website where you can read all about the luminaries and intellectuals who addressed this conference.  One speaker was a lady named Sharon Black, identified as "a health care worker" and an organizer for the United Food and Commercial Worker's Union.  Ahhhhhhhh.  A union organizer.  Well, that should have been interesting ... and, in fact, it was.  Ms. (an abbreviation for "miserable) Black brought the crowd to the edge of its seat with a call for the seizure of all private property and the destruction of capitalism. 

So ... why even bring this up?  After all, this was their big national conference and all they could gather together was 300 misfits?  Well, it was the call for the seizure of all private property that got my attention.  When you think about it, isn't that exactly what the argument in Washington DC is about during this lame-duck session of the incredible 111^th Congress of the United States? 

The issue is tax cuts for the evil, filthy, disgusting exploiting monsters we call the "rich."  What is really being discussed in congress is just how much property the government is going to seize from these insipid high-achievers.  Yes ... property.  Money is merely another form of property --- property commonly traded for other types of property; but it is property nonetheless. 

Have you really tried to spend some time trying to figure out just why the Democrats are so hell-bent on raising taxes on the high-achievers?  Let's list just a few reasons:

1.     The tax cuts the Democrats want to repeal were put in place by the hated George Bush.  As such, these are tax cuts were borne of what the Democrat gospel (remember - they worship government) preaches to be a stolen election resulting in an illegitimate president.  As such, these tax cuts are just as illegitimate as the president who fought for them.  They must, therefore, be repealed as to the rich.  The middle class will be allowed to keep their tax cuts, but they will immediately be renamed the "Obama Tax Cuts" by the Democrats and a compliant media.

2.    Democrats in general and our ruler Barack Obama in particular believe that the wealth enjoyed by the rich was not fairly earned.  The money the Democrats seek to tax was earned only through exploitation of the working class, inheritance from some other exploiter of the workers, or criminal activity.  As such, it certainly should be subject to seizure.  This is known in Democrat circles as "fairness."  This is why Obama told Bob Shieffer that even though an increase in capital gains tax rates would very likely lead to a decrease in capital gains tax revenues, the tax increases were nonetheless needed to promote "fairness."  In Obama's world it is the function of the government to look at every person's income and then decide how much of that income it would be fair to allow them to keep.

3.    Our ruler, The Community Organizer, is on record as favoring the use of the government's power to lay and collect taxes for the purposes of income seizure and redistribution as well as a way to fund the operations of government.  This is a very popular position with Democrats.  Democrats believe that the people belong to and exist for the purpose of serving government.  Since we belong to the government, that which we produce belongs to the government as well.  Again, the only question is how much we will be allowed to keep for our own uses.  Ultimately this decision is based on just how much crap the Democrats believe the high-achievers are willing to absorb before they just throw up their hands and say "I'm outta here." 

4.    Maybe this should be No. 1 on the list.  Class warfare.  In all societies in all corners of the world there always have been and there always will be people who are blinded by jealousy of those who have achieve more and thus have more.  These people cannot bring it upon themselves to recognize that there are some people who work harder and smarter than they; and thus their excess wealth is surely attributable to something nefarious such as cheating, exploiting and outright theft.  It is, therefore, the job of the government to correct this situation by punishing the rich for their sordid activities.  If the Democrats fail to raise taxes on the rich ... for no other purpose other than to take some of their ill-gotten gains away ... they will not soon be forgiven by those suffering from wealth envy. 

5.    After all ... you've made enough money, right?  That, if you will remember, was Obama's line.  Here we had a President of the United States who tells Americans that "at some point, you've made enough money."  Here's another reason to raise taxes on the rich.  They're simply making more money than some politicians and community organizers in Washington think they ought to be making.  In our society the politicians decide how much you should make ... and when you exceed that politically established limit, the hero politicians step in to seize the excess. 

These Democrats know full well that raising taxes on the rich is not going to necessarily generate additional tax revenues for the government.  They can read the economic history as well as anyone.  Don't listen to these statements about all of the money that will have to be borrowed to fund the extension of the Bush tax cuts.  That's horsesqueeze and the Democrats know it's horsesqueeze.   It is, in fact, more likely that extending the tax cuts for the high achievers will increase rather than decrease revenue.  The simple fact is that this is not about revenue .. it's about pandering to a constituency and punishing those who are the object of envy by the dumb masses.