Liberals and Taxes

Sometimes you just have to laugh about liberals and their taxes.  They are always the ones who want to raise taxes, but amazingly enough; they never want to pay them.

Senator John Kerry was a good example.  In 2008, he agreed to pay $500,000 in taxes to the state of Massachusetts over a yacht he owns and some how or another, he forgot to pay the taxes on.   Tim Geithner screwed up on his taxes, but blamed it on Turbo Tax.

Now we have Claire McCaskill, the ultra liberal Senator from Missouri.  First, she inappropriately billed the government $88,000 for the plane for personal travel.   Now she has discovered she owes Missouri $287,000 in taxes.

In a statement she said, “there are people she could blame” but she would take responsibility for the error.  Translation, I’m really blaming someone else but will pretend I am doing the right thing.

This is wrong at so many levels.  I am sure we have all forgotten to pay over a quarter of a million dollars in taxes.  It happens all the time to all of us, right?

Perhaps we should invoke the term that really screams to be used here:  hypocrisy!

Liberals are the worst hypocrites.  They demand that we all “pay our fair share” of taxes but then they never want to pay their share. I don’t blame them.  I don’t want to pay my taxes either.

Liberals scream about those of us who not only do not want higher taxes but also want taxes cut.  We are greedy and selfish. Really?  What is the word we use for people like Claire McCaskill?  How about crook?

Liberals have managed to grow government to obscene levels.  Taxes, such as the personal property taxes that Claire “blame other people” McCaskill owe simple feed the largess of the government welfare state.

How much of our government do we really need?   Government is bloated at all levels.  When was the last time we downsized government?  Can anyone remember?  Thanks to politicians like Claire McCaskill government continues to grow and suck up all the available resources it can.

For state and local politicians, the norm now seems to be they are graded on what kind of new project they can get funded and created.  A new highway, new buildings for a University, a new sports stadium or a new convention center.  When was the last time we had a politician in state or local office that really cut spending?  When was the last time we had one at the Federal level that seriously cut spending?

We are bankrupt and we can thank tax-dodging politicians like McCaskill for that.   On one level, I don’t blame her for trying to avoid her taxes.  But given her love of taxing the American people, I can only hope her tax bill goes up exponentially.