All across America yesterday, idiots who are totally enthralled with right-wing ideologies and apparently have no idea how taxes and government finance works got together and had “tea parties”, which were supposed to be in the spirit of the famous Boston Tea Party I guess. Anyway, I thought it was worth noting how ridiculous these little protests are.
They are all obviously anti-Obama and anti-Democrat, which is the thing that is dumb. Apparently they feel that when they filed their income taxes (if they did) they were paying hugely outrageous income taxes to pay for Obama’s yet-to-exist deficit. Here’s why that’s stupid:
- You’re paying income taxes for 2008. Before the last election. Before Obama became President. It’s not like Obama woke up on April 15th and decided “Gee I think I’m going to charge this much for income taxes today!” The tax scale that you’re paying for comes from the Bush era.
- A lot of people might ASSUME that they’re going to be paying more taxes if the Obama budget passes because it runs a deficit. But where were all these “teabaggers” during the past 8 years of Bush’s deficits?
- All of these people who think that Obama is ruing them are drawing conclusions from their preconceived notions, not from reality. The man has been President for what, three months? There hasn’t been time for him to really get anything major passed into law, let alone evaluate the results. If you want to tear the guy down, whatever, but how can you seriously be protesting something Obama’s done when he hasn’t had time to do anything?
Look, I’m not just all about rubber stamping everything the guy does. But I’m not going to go spouting off idiotic rhetoric and throwing a little protest over something that hasn’t happened.
Posted by Jesse
Posted by Jesse
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