The Pursuit of Fairness
Jan 25th, 2012 by David Anderson
I watched President Obama’s State of the Union last night. It was quite a show. He was at the top of his game. He sounded like a cross between Shawn Hannity and Andy Stern. He advocated tax reform, an all of the above energy policy, and a fair society.
I am intrigued of course by an administration that block a pipeline when its own experts both economic and enviromnental green light it and imposes an illegal moritorioum on drilling off shore then presenting itself as the all of the above, drill baby administration.
What intrigued me more was the statement which put the central goal of the administration policy as fairness not freedom. Now I am not opposing everyone having a fair shot at the opportunities of life, but I believe the best way is more freedom not more regulation.
How is it fair for high tech companies to get double the tax breaks of other companies? How is it fair for new companies to get a break at regulations and not established ones? How is it fair for one type of energy company to get better treatment than another? How is it fair for the rich to be targeted in the tax code?
President Obama identified several areas of the tax code which need to be addressed including the crazy provisions which encourage jobs to leave America. Some of his solutions left something to be desired such as an alternative minimum tax for multi-national corporations that do business here. I have a very simple, fair, and free solution. The President should look at the Fair Tax. Freedom, transparency, and simplicty are solutions not more rules. Try it and we will not know what to do with the all of the prosperity.
….an all of the above energy policy, and a fair society.
I am intrigued of course by an administration that block a pipeline when its own experts both economic and enviromnental green light…
I doubt that politicians can get away with saying one thing and doing another. Even if they have establishment/mainstream journ”o”lists* helping them by manufacturing stories as if they are news to distract from lies they’re always one Facebook status update away from more and more people knowing about news that is actually important due to the “multiple stream” media.
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These are the sort of people creating stories. Notice how they frame defense of Obama in terms of defending “the people” or a public good. Fortunately Leftist memes are limited in America, even in the minds of imbeciles/journalists, otherwise the public good could more easily turn into a public god…. otherwise known as a dictator. Ironic though, that the public seems to begin to serve the public god and is not served by the “public good.” But when it comes to the Left, it’s all for your own good.
What intrigued me more was the statement which put the central goal of the administration policy as fairness not freedom.
If fairness was “too big to fail”* in his mind then they would make decentralization of the government a goal instead of trying to manage “the economy.” (I.e…. you…) *Link (Probably contains obscenity, I don’t remember.)
Fair? Let’s be honest the liberal in him desires to gather us all in a common label(middle class) and then proceed to split us apart (class warfare)using bad policies and empty rhetoric.
Sad how he appeals to those who have not achieved by attacking those who have in order to give some meaning and direction to the lives of those who have fallen short in life.
Equality under the law is an absolute and in the eyes of God but here on earth life is a struggle and a joy at the same time. Government cannot replace the complexities of life, one must overcome them.
Mike Protack
More news from the decentralized media on Obama’s “fairness”: Link Because I like the ending.
Contrast their interest in the truth and the poor to the mainstream media which would generally rather create news based on shallow forms of imagery, perhaps something to do with sex or a famous American idol to sell. Journalists made Obama in their image, yet some seem surprised at his corruption and incompetence.
In today’s political climate it’s all about the show, and Omaba is the David Copperfield of center-ring showmanship on the political stage. It matters little that he is an incompetent boob in reality. His stock-in-trade is magic. His oratory is the stuff dreams are made of.
Far from being a uniter, he is the most divisive man in the history of the presidency. That too matters little. He sounds right, even though what he is saying is wrong. He looks right, even though his party tell us that looks are irrelevent. And what little he actually does must be right because he tells us he is ‘fair.’ And after all, who could be more ‘fair’ than a polished black guy who also happens to be the smartest man in the world?
In the age of Hollywood excess, the VH1 freakshow and a dumbed-down electorate, Omaba’s ‘mainstream’ media cheerleaders should have no problem convincing us that class envy is the number-one issue in America, and that confiscation of wealth is the ‘fair’ solution.
The left is intent on creating an ever-expanding parasite class. And, they are succeeding.
“Wear Your Nose-Rings Just Like Cattle-Citizens!”
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Big Media Scoop:
Mitt Romney only paid 13% in taxes!!! Nevermind that it was millions of dollars (and that he donated $7-million to charity)- he paid at a lower rate than his secretary!!! Nevermind that during his lifetime, as he was accumulating money to invest, his taxes (federal, state, local, fuel and gasoline and so on) were roughly 50% of his income. Nevermind that his investments fueled business growth and provided Big-Labor jobs. Nevermind that the US has the second-highest corporate tax rate in the world behind only Japan. Mitt Romney paid less than his secretary!!!
I think it was all illusion and no substance, and, quite frankly, quite scary. He will literally say anything, or be anybody, and no one in the media, other than Fox, will call him on anything.
You can’t change the change…. Link
Fair versus freedom…..
That was put rather well. Let’s think that through…
On a football field.. When New England wiped the field with Teebow’s team, did anyone step in to halt the proceedings? Did ref’s start re-framing rules to penalize the Patriots, but allow a different set of standards for Teebow? Or did Pittsburgh get another second chance when the overtime session was over with 14.45 minutes still on the clock?
On the football field, freedom overruled fair.
i think we all agree that is right…. but let’s paint it differently. Let’s throw out the hypothesis that the refs were unfair, and gave the Patriots the advantage. Interceptions were ruled as incomplete passes if fumbled by the Patriots, and were ruled as turnovers if touched and dropped by the Christian Teebow’s team. Let us say that roughing the passer was called if it happened to Brady, but allowed to continue when Teebow had the same….
That is not freedom… That does not allow free play.
Of course, the defense of such can be made: New England has the home field advantage. They earned the right to pick the refs… The rules allow that to happen…
Such is true.
And when that happens, some outside entity, be it the press, the NFL Commissioners, the outrage of people, needs to step in, curtail the freedom allowed to go to excess, and make the game fair…
Those processes need to be stopped, otherwise football will become a gladiator sport like killing defenseless Christians. Not a contest of two mighty teams.
There are many of us who feel this has happened in America. WE could get along fine without help, if the rules would get changed. WE could pick our own heads up out of the financial quagmire, IF, we could must make more money than our expenses.. If the deck wasn’t so stacked against us, …… well, you get the point….
Since Reagan, many of you have subscribed to the notion that as the wealthy get richer, all America prospers….
It really didn’t turn out that way….
The opposite,…. actually appears to have a little more merit: that if the bottom layer can lift itself on or two notches higher, the top rises as much as all the bottoms put together….
Real life bears this out. AS Welfare reform (during the 90′s) pushed people into the work force, their purchasing power, drove the economy forward, as well as pushed profits higher, enabling more money to be collected at the top….
No one wants to “give” anyone anything, unless it is like “giving” your broker money to invest for you… WE are talking about investing in America…
Opportunity follows money. Currently, not enough opportunity is being given to the bottom 99%, even allowing them to have the freedom the wealthy experience….
That said….. a choice between freedom versus fair?
No… you have to have both… simultaneously……..
(first time I’ve given that much thought… thank you for suggesting it, allowing me to work through it, right here, in live time… appreciate it… .)
Since Reagan, many of you have subscribed to the notion that as the wealthy get richer, all America prospers….
It really didn’t turn out that way….
If the aristocratic class is virtuous it does generally turn out that way. When they are not, then it does not. The fact that the word virtue may strike most modern minds as an archaic term probably says enough. But think about it his way, a Steve Jobs or Eastman Kodak who creates something that others value (i.e. wealth) does make all of America prosper. They create jobs, they create wealth, they create philanthropy, etc. In contrast, George Soros or a “too big to fail” Goldman Sachs executive working to partner with the government through the Federal Reserve to steal wealth by manipulating and polluting the economic language that the creators of wealth must trade in do not create wealth, philanthropy, etc. They are more likely to loot the retirements of millions than to help the poor as they destroy and do not create. (And if the personal behavior of many in the financial services industry is any measure then the memes in their minds are generally only capable of creating more forms of corruption, addiction and prostitution.) One tends to make money by creating actual wealth, the other tends to “make money” by printing it. Link
But the main thing that Goldman Sachs executives partnering with politicians/imbeciles create are illusions which distort and corrupt the economic transactions of people who are actually creating things of value. Meanwhile, the Herd begins to think that occupying space or some form of violence is the solution to the corruption that they have the instinct to sense. Then here comes a half-wit demagogue to say that it’s because all the rich are not paying their fair share while “partnering”* with the rich that destroy wealth against its creators. Sometimes one almost thinks that the demagogue is stupid and ignorant enough to believe their own rhetoric and the memes that create them. So it seems that the sound instincts of the Herd are to be manipulated and misdirected by the destroyers of creation.
It would be humorous if it wasn’t so pathetic.
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Got intelligence?
A short history of fairness, the pursuit of happiness, money and the goldsmith/”gold man”:Link
Fortunately the possibility that the partisans of the Left and the Right may put aside their insane psychological dynamics remains open. See: MSNBC
But a demagogue will be of no help as his corrupt language about fairness is like his talk of caring about your health, which is generally like his talk about anything. Given that demagogues imagine that they are the masters of language and not the other way around, it’s difficult to know if he can still think for himself.
You are correct. Had the top earners invested that money into what is now known as “physical capital”, (factories, manufacturing, and other forms of job creation) the wealth would have trickled down.
One cannot fault Reagan for believing in the best of human spirit, that Americans would choose to invest their money here.
But that is what didn’t happen. The profits were invested elsewhere. The jobs went elsewhere. Instead of wealth trickling down, it trickled away……
The proper answer, is to tax all wealth at a fair rate …. with the one exception that it does not consider any money-invested-into-physical-capital, here on American soil, as taxable….. at all.
I would have no problem with a large mega-multi-national corporation paying zero taxes, if they spent all of their $4 billion in profit right here, building a manufacturing plant in Delaware to make themselves even wealthier next year…..
That was what was supposed to happen. It didn’t, because both we and Reagan, assumed that people would automatically do “what was right”.
It didn’t work out that way. But it can, if we create an environment, where the only way to keep your wealth, is to invest it in yourself, here in America…. for the future….
That is the fallacy behind the argument of Republicans, and the wisdom behind the philosophy of Democrats…..