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Not Tax Cuts, Not Wars, and Not Bailouts – NRO

The only way out is to accept the idea that living standards have to fall to match the prior excesses, an admission that ‘experts’ agree is politically impossible in the US at this time.

Rep. Scott: Taxing Those At $100,000 And Up at 100% Would Not Get Us Out Of This Year’s Deficit

Americans are not going to be saved by the current batch of Republicans. It may frankly be too late.

Sarah Palin speaks at a Madison Wisconsin Tea Party rally.

Congressman Allen West speaks at the 3rd Annual Tax Day Tea Party in Palm Beach County.

Now the battle looms to raise the debt limit. This is an inside-the-belt-way shell game wherein the parties of power each beat their chests and growl at each other about who is the most responsible before they both vote to increase the limit on their collective credit card.

Every time tax rates on “the rich” are raised there is less revenue raised. That doesn’t matter to leftist ideologues like Obama. For Obama its all about taking from those who have and giving it to those who will vote for him.

Altruism confers ownership rights on the needy. Under altruism, if the haves withhold things from the have-nots, that’s physical force—it’s literal theft—and government force in redress is retaliatory force, seizing “stolen” possession to return them to their rightful owners: the needy.

[T]he U.S. has to show it realizes it is confronting an existential threat.