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The following editorial written by John Boehner, Republican leader in the House of Representatives, was published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, March 30, 2007.

The same folks who larded up the emergency war appropriations bill with billions of dollars in pork-barrel projects are at it again.  Yesterday House Democrats voted to impose the largest tax hike in American history.  Every spring Congress approves a budget blueprint that lays out its spending priorities and revenue assumptions for the next fiscal year and those that will follow.  The budget approved by Democrats on Thursday reverses 12 years of Republican tax cuts and pro-growth policies.  It lays the groundwork for increasing personal income tax rates on middle-income families, slashing the child tax credit, reinstating the marriage penalty and bringing back the death tax.

No larger enemy of the American Dream exists outside of the U.S. tort system.  The courts might as well be defined as the research laboratories for a special contingency of American Dream destroyers.  Remember, the court system is a prime Device used to Destroy the American Dream (DUDD).  These hallowed halls are the places where liberal-minded attorneys and their equally repugnant sidekick judges hack away at reality and common sense to deliver verdicts that could not be earned on their own merit in the workplace under fair play and free-market conditions.  In the courts America’s wealth is unethically but legally re-distributed, with billions taken from the wealthy under the ethically challenged guise of doing what is right and correct for the citizens of our great country.  In fact, savvy lawyers oftentimes reorganize many social or economic challenges, as legal bouts only after the same battles are lost in the free marketplace.

Even when a member of D.E.A.D. actually learns the truth about a popular P.A.I.D. philosophy like lowering taxes to expand the economy, they still can’t accept the good news.  Rather they have to manufacture mistruths, exaggerations and lies to justify their insatiable cause to hate the wealthy.  I offer the following article by Justin Fox in his column called The Curious Capitalist from the March 19, 2007 issue of Time Magazine to make my point.  The above truth is really very obvious to the observant reader.  Have fun with this one.  It’s not often that a liberal writer and D.E.A.D. thinker is caught in the act of understanding the way the world works and why P.A.I.D. is a worthy goal!

This Editorial was published in the Saturday/Sunday, March 24/25, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal on page A10.

That’s how the Associated Press described yesterday’s vote by the House to demand a U.S. retreat from Iraq, and in the perverse calculus of

Capital Hill we suppose it was.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated she can pile on enough Democrats to cobble together a bare, partisan majority to “send a message” that has no chance of becoming law.  Congratulations.

We are very grateful to Mr. Jeb Hensarling the author of this Editorial published in the Wall Street Journal on March 21, 2007.  Mr. Hensarling is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of over 100 conservatives in the House of Representatives.  American taxpayers have supported the country in every conceivable way and have never been afforded appropriate rights, in fact in the matter of paying taxes to the IRS the most time-honored right afforded to American citizens: the right to the presumption of innocence before guilt is suspended.  It’s time that such a Bill of Rights is afforded to American citizens.

The next time someone tells you that the Rich in America don’t pay “their fair share”, please refer them to this editorial that was published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, March 20, 2007:

Amid the hubbub about U.S. attorneys last week, few people noticed the big Beltway economic news: Senator Kent Conrad and his fellow Democrats proposed their five-year budget outline, or at least that part of it they’re willing to discuss in public.

Mr. Conrad, the Senate Budget Chairman, pulled off the neat magic trick of claiming his budget includes “no tax increase,” even as it anticipates repeal of the Bush tax cuts after 2010.  How does he pull that rabbit out of his hat?  By positing what amounts to a giant asterisk where the tax increase is supposed to go and hoping no one will notice.

PAID has always been curious about the strange dichotomy between income tax rates that exist in America.  Why is it that most citizens don’t pay any taxes at all at the national level (according to the IRS the bottom 50% of income earners paid only 3.4 % of taxes in 2004) while some pay as little as 15% and others contribute a hefty 35% (The IRS says that the top 1% of income earners paid 35.6 % of all taxes in 2004) of their hard earned dollars.  Everyone receives the same benefits so its not as though that is a factor in deciding who pays little and who pays more.   In fact, the non-wealthy demand and utilize more services from the government then the wealthy. 

This letter-to-the-Editor was authored by Arthur C. Brooks, professor of public administration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs, was published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, March 19, 2007:

The world’s super-rich are getting increased attention of late, courtesy of a new report in Forbes Magazine listing the world’s 946 billionaires.  The list starts with Bill Gates (worth 56 billion) and reaches down to those with “just” one billion, such as Arkansas chicken magnate Donald Tyson.

Well, our government again has decided to protect us.  We all know these situations usually wind up with most of us losing some freedoms in the process.  Now they have decided to rewrite the definition of “Rich” so we can know how many investment dollars we can part with.  When will the government learn to keep their hands out of our wallets?  Will this insanity ever stop?  Here’s the article as written in the Wealth Report column authored by Robert Frank in the Wall Street Journal on Friday March 16, 2007:

Following is a letter to the Editor published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, March 15, 2007.  The letter was written by Messrs. Judd Gregg and Chuck Grassley who are the ranking minority members of the Senate Budget and Finance Committees, respectively

As Congress prepares to tackle the annual federal budget process, we are a week away from a vote that could put our economy on a dangerous path.  Yesterday, the majority party unveiled its budget proposal to impose higher taxes on families and businesses in order to pay for more wasteful Washington spending.