Sen. Barack Obama's Labor Day message isn't so much a celebration of the work that made America great as it is a promise to give everyone a union boss.
"It's time we had a president who honors organized labor, who has walked on picket lines, who doesn't choke on the word "union," who lets our unions do what they do best and organize our workers, and who will finally make the Employee Free Choice Act the law of the land," Obama said.
Employers are already laboring under too-high corporate tax rates. Do we really want to make them even less competitive by adding a layer of hangers-on with their hands out?
Obama hopes you do.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Who will be your union boss under Obama?
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I realize that you don't have the foggiest grasp of proportionality in taxation. However, were a proportional tax system implemented, income and sales taxes could be eliminated.
So would deductions, credits, corporate-welfare giveaways, depletion allowances, etc.
The result would be that the rate of taxation overall would be significantly lower.
However, for the umpteenth time, here's Alexander Hamilton''s quote from Federalist Paper 12:
"The ability of a country to pay taxes must always be proportioned, in a great degree, to the quantity of money in circulation, and to the celerity with which it circulates. Commerce, contributing to both these objects, must of necessity render the payment of taxes easier, and facilitate the requisite supplies to the treasury."
Unions are a First Amendment right--the right to petition for a redress of grievances. The failure of corporations to have a proportional salary system makes unions necessary to redress the imbalance in compensation for work performed.
I realize you and Repugs are blinded by avarice, greed and bigotry. Nevertheless you ought to be educable about wealth and taxation.
Both Hamilton and James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper 54, "numbers are the best scale of wealth and taxation".
Fine, Hempy. Please explain how we might implement this tax policy. Consider me educable and willing to listen.
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