Democrats have a problem that is a little like the story
of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. In that
tale the little boy who was supposed to protect the flock of sheep became
untrustworthy because in order to get respect and get attention to the good job
he thought he was doing, he falsely cried “wolf” one too many times, and after
that no one believed his pleas, even when a real emergency happened and the
flock was actually attacked by a wolf.
On this note, probably the most memorable words to
come from the Vice Presidential debate last night between Mike Pence and Tim
Kaine was the repeated attack of Tim Kaine on Donald Trump for taking a perfectly
legal tax credit against future earnings on a business loss he experienced. Mr.
Kaine would not let up on his charge that this allowance, which sometimes can
result in paying no tax on the business’s profits for a period of years, was
only done by the very rich; that it was cheating; that it allowed Mr. Trump to
not support police, fire fighters, teachers or our military, which is close to
the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard a fool say.
It’s as though Mr. Kaine has never claimed any
deductions for himself as his taxes are prepared each year. It’s as though Mr.
Kaine frequently gratuitously writes checks to the U.S. Treasury from a desire
to be certain of paying his own fair share and fully supporting the police,
teachers, and the other public entities he thinks are going without funds.
Evidently Mr. Kaine doesn’t understand that federal
taxes do not pay for local police nor the teachers in his local school. These
things are paid from local or state taxes that business losses may or may not
excuse one from paying (the tax form that Mr. Kaine was complaining about was
Mr. Trump’s federal tax return).
One wonders if Mr. Kaine ever accepts a refund check from
any taxing authority to which he is subject? I’ll bet he not only accepts tax
refunds, I’ll bet he submits the proper form to request that the taxing
authority send him the money. The man is a fool and a hypocrite.
There is no shortage of taxes (real estate, automobile,
boat, airplane, employee taxes, sales taxes, estimated taxes, excise taxes,
luxury taxes) that one pays aside from the dear and precious federal earnings
tax that liberals hold to be sacred, because it’s from this tax that big
government types get their greatest power. Unfortunately, there are many
exemptions from this tax that big government types themselves have enacted in
order to buy votes and get political donations from favored, wealthy groups of
voters, yet when a political opponent of Tim Kaine or Hillary Clinton takes advantage
of these very legal exemptions, Democrats berate them and abuse them and accuse
them of being criminals and denying children food and shelter.
But the truth of the matter is that if fewer dollars
were sent to Washington the federal government would have to let employees go,
and before long the government would have to back off on its constant surveillance
of every move we make and every phone call we place, and we’d soon have the
freedom and liberty the constitution promises, the same freedom and liberty
that make Democrats so angry when they see it being exercised by plain folks in
fly-over country, or by wealthy political opponents to their leftist causes.
Democrats had better learn to tread softly and stop
attacking everyone who doesn’t share their opinions, because there is a major change
underway in the United States and people no longer believe the lies that Kaine,
or Hillary or Obama tell, and their heyday is coming to an end.
