February 2, 2013
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Addendum – Breaking news about another “penny-pinching, selfish, insensitive ingrate” when it comes to taxes, particularly when it comes to paying them.

My dear Professor,

Whodathunk? Say it ain’t so, Stevie.

I know if Rupert Murdoch were to say that the sun rises in the East you would say nay. If he were to say “stones are hard and water is wet” you would say he was in collusion with the notorious Koch Brothers to lay another lash on the backs of the undeserving poor.

I must present you with the following quote.

“Under a law passed in 1932, FDR became the first
President subject to the income tax, but he refused to
pay an increased rate that he helped enact in 1934.”
Wall Street Journal
Page A15
Today

If the great Lord Keynes had known about this – not FDR dodging the increased tax rate but the tax rate increase itself – he might have gone back to gambling and stock speculations, avocations which he was superb at. According to Keynes, raising tax rates in an economic downturn is akin to putting out a fire with gasoline. Honest. You could look it up. He was always in favor of cutting tax rates. Honest. You could look that one up also. The modern American Liberal memory hole, an eclectically indignant vortex from which no inconvenient fact ever emerges, is still unaware of the kennedy tax cuts. Honest. Look that one up also.

But back to that “penny-pinching, selfish, insensitive ingrate”, AKA FDR.

Can we stipulate that FDR did not share this upper crust, 1%, “only little people pay taxes” with his Fireside Chat audience? We can? Good

“he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”
The Constitution
Article 2
Section 3

The President takes an oath to uphold the Constitution; not just some of it; not a big heap of it; but, rather, all of it.

It is common for most Presidents to think that they are above the law. I can only think of one, Franklin Roosevelt or, as he is better known, a “penny-pinching, selfish, insensitive ingrate”, who did it for personal pecuniary gain.

You said yesterday that low taxes in Florida give us a “cut-rate way of life”. Further, you say that if you “don’t like taxes, move to Kabul”. At least you’ve updated “America – Love it or Leave it” – to “America – Pay up or Leave it”.

I hear strains of “Theme for the Common Man”, the theme of modern American Liberals and the one tune no Democratic Convention can go without. Wait a minute! There’s another sound I hear. It is the other shoe dropping.

More people were murdered in Chicago in January than were murdered in Kabul.

If life is so good in California, now officially the land of fruits and nuts, a land now run by the chief wing-nut moon bat, why have 3,500,000 citizens left it in the past 20 years?

GlobalCooling/GlobalWarming/ClimateChange? No. Professor Vivaldi will explain it all. Nixon? No. He’s still dead. Maybe Phil Mickelson is on to something. After all, if it is good enough for FDR it should be good enough for the rest of us, right?

Why don’t we raise the tax rate to 105%? That would balance the budget, wouldn’t it?

Modern American Liberals get their knickers in a knot when securing the border is mentioned. Should Mickleson and his foursome decide to learn a foreign language Nancy Pelosi will hire all the unemployed Berlin Wall guards to make sure they practice it here. Only here.

“Hey Lefty, you don’t need that passport, do you?”



KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET