In the interests of full disclosure: I am not now, nor have I ever been rich. I do not anticipate being rich in financial terms at any time in the future. However, like Mr. Lillpop, I'm getting a little angry about the way the "rich" are being beaten up in this country. The "rich" are the people who give the rest of us our jobs. They produce stuff that people want and need, and the "rich" buy raw materials and equipment and supplies to produce the stuff they sell.

I spent 20-plus years working for Electronic Data Systems, the computer services company that Ross Perot founded with $2,000 and a dream. EDS grew to be the industry leader with something like 140,000 employees, and Perot became a multi-billionaire. Ross and I aren't buddies, we hang around in different social circles. But I admire his drive, his ambition, his skill and his daring in betting that $2000 on his dream and then making it come true.

Now the left would have us believe that "rich" people like Ross Perot are evil, that they stole that money from the poor or whatever they're saying this week. I have enough knowledge of Mr. Perot to judge his character, and I have enough knowledge of Mr. Obama to judge his character. If I had to pick one of them to hold my wallet for a few minutes, who do you suppose that would be?

from the Voice of Lillpop

11/21/2009

Higher Taxes on Rich: Discrimination Based on Race?

By John W. Lillpop

Not only do liberals want to tax the so-called rich in order to fund health care for illegal aliens and other uninsured millions, now a prominent member of the U.S. Senate has proposed a tax on the well to do to pay for Obama’s quagmire in Afghanistan.

As reported at Bloomberg.com, in part:

“Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.”

Levin’s un-American scheme may actually find support among leftists who hate the rich more than they hate war!

When will this madness be halted?

When will the Supreme Court step in and rule that taxing the wealthy for every hair-brained scam and failure committed by our inept -president is unconstitutional, un-American, and just plain immoral?

Think about it: Why in the hell should the rich pay for Obama’s war in Afghanistan? Wealthy people already pay the vast majority of the taxes paid to Uncle Sam—what could possibly justify slamming the successful with even more financial pain?

Clearly, liberals like Levin regard the tax code as a means for punishing those who succeed and who are also a vulnerable minority.

Have you launched a new company, hired scores of employees, and earned a handsome income in the process? According to fractured the mind of Carl Levin, you must be punished for outshining the great unwashed masses.

There is a racist element in all this. For the most part, America’s rich are Caucasian which means that they are “fair game” for liberal tax abusers like Obama and Levin.

Why is there no civil liberties group in place to defend the rich against higher taxes and discrimination based on racial profiling?