ah, even better, now the government is using the IRS as a form of punishment. "Do what we tell you to do with your post tax income or we're going to punish you with more taxes"

Christ, what other private companies is he going to force us to do business with if he gets reelected?

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in a...

I'm not a registered Libertarian, but I agree with the bulk of their philosophy. It's sad that the big 2 can manage to marginalize the Libertarian party as much as they do while pushing a nanny state, big government, corporatist agenda and telling us all that they know best, especially when so much ...

if you're in the public eye and can still make money for powerful people, there's a good chance you'll get a pass for whatever your transgressions are. Woody Allen is a pedophile and Roman Polanski raped a 12 year old, but most major A list actors still work with both of them. Mike Tyson is still ha...

http://news.yahoo.com/guns-u-sting-mexican-crime-scenes-report-131600807.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 122 firearms from a botched U.S. undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, a Republican congressional report issued on Tue...

he could always go back to being a morning zookeeper. Or a practicing alcoholic. Of course the biggest victims here is the mormon church since the get 10% of everything he makes. I'm sure he'll be taking a pay cut wherever he lands next. With all the free time he'll have on his hands, he could plagi...

LOFL - this shit is a riot. People arguing that the government *forcing* its citizens to purchase/have healthcare is anything but unconstitutional. Regardless of your affiliations/beliefs, how can one see it another way? I don't see how the government forcing it's citizens to do business with any p...

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It's OK to be an activist judge if you're Republican......doncha know.

so a judge who rules that it's unconstitutional for the government to force it's citizens to do business with private companies is an activist judge?

the Justice Department is currently arguing in court that they have the right to enforce a mandate because of Congress's power to tax and spend: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/08/06/states-respond-health-care-overhaul-lawsuit/ In its motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in Florida, th...

I'm pretty pissed that Harry Reid won. Also, Oregon may have a Republican Governor, which shocks me. A former NBA star no less. Still too close to call, but Dudley leads Kitzhaber by 2 percentage points. Wonder if Portland's votes have been counted yet? not to mention the weed measure is getting tr...

it's not the guy's past that scares me, it's what he's doing in the present. Forcing Americans to do business with private corporations. Having his cronies in the Justice Department arguing that the health care mandate is a tax, so if he wins he can enact a huge tax increase, despite all his promise...

just a bunch of empty promises I'm sure, but at least they've got the rhetoric right. Obama wants to keep taxing and spending and doesn't seem to give a shit at all about rampant spending, lowering taxes, or doing anything about government waste. Not buying what the republicans are trying to sell fo...

I have a feeling whoever ends up running against him will hammer him pretty hard on his broken pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class, like what happened with Bush 1 and his "read my lips" pledge. The major tax increases won't kick in until 2014 if he gets his way, but it's still a ...

I said he was an entertainer, not a harmless one. He may be a de facto leader of the tea party, but it's not like they're an officially recognized party like the democrats or the republicans. He has a TV and/or a radio show, much like Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Rielley or even Howard Stern...

who cares, the guy is a former morning zoo DJ, an admitted alcoholic with a history of mental problems and a mormon who wears 'magic' underwear, believes he will someday be a god, and is apparently cool with the overt racism his church practiced until the later 70's it's not like he's an elected pol...

I guess the suicide stuff explains his fanatical religious viewpoints. I'm guessing when he found God he found a will to live or vice versa. I doubt he ever seriously contemplated suicide and I doubt the sincerity of his religious beliefs. That's a promotional story line. He's a con man. He's about...

If Beck's fucked up past wasn't bad enough, the fact that he's a Mormon would probably be the nail on the coffin. The whole magic underwear thing would be easy fodder for his opponents, not to mention overt racism the Mormon church practiced up until the late 70's. Mormonism was, and always will be ...

Since the President is chosen by the Electoral College, and the electors are virtually all either Democrats or Republicans, I doubt seriously that a 3rd party President will ever be elected. If such a candidate won the popular vote it would simply be ignored as it has in the past when the winner of...

American tax dollars hard at work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8q0EU4b9w http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100825/ap_on_bi_ge/us_medicare_drug_plans By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 53 mins ago WASHINGTON – More than 3 million...

Because of commercials paid for by the govt. that do nothing. except of course waste money. Sure it may not be a lot of money by government standards in this case, but they're still pissing it away while we have a huge deficit, are looking at a major tax increase, and the government has had to rece...

Skate4RnR wrote:I don't know why you call yourself "Smokey" Ramone but you need to watch more anti-drug commercials. Just say no.

why? Because I'm angry about wasteful spending? I haven't done any kinds of drugs in years

regardless of who originally came up with the idea of a mandate, there are a lot of constitutional issues with it. States rights, due process, separation of powers, and the right not to incriminate oneself just to name a few, almost half of the states have either filed suit, or indicated they intend...

It's not the governments (i.e. taxpayers) job to subsidize private insurance corporations in order to make them more attractive to their customers and more profitable to their shareholders. If private insurers want to offer generous benefits to drum up business, let them do it on their own dime so ...

It's not the governments (i.e. taxpayers) job to subsidize private insurance corporations in order to make them more attractive to their customers and more profitable to their shareholders. If private insurers want to offer generous benefits to drum up business, let them do it on their own dime so ...

sure it's good they're cutting spending, my point was that the commercial with Andy Griffith, paid for with tax money, is misleading

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/mayberry-misleads-on-medicare/ Would the sheriff of Mayberry mislead you about Medicare? Alas, yes. In a new TV spot from the Obama administration, actor Andy Griffith, famous for his 1960s portrayal of the top law enforcement official in the fictional town of Mayber...

in my inital post I said something to the effect that this seems like propaganda. A couple posts down I said I regretted using that word because even if it is propaganda, that's not what really bothered me. It's not about the message, or who's message it is. It's about wasting money. As others, myse...

I can't speak for Bane, but there are plenty of ways to get the word out there short of spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money on airtime. Press conferences and other TV appearances, newspaper and magazine interviews just to name a few. A commercial campaign just isn't necessary and isn't w...

I can't speak for Bane, but there are plenty of ways to get the word out there short of spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money on airtime. Press conferences and other TV appearances, newspaper and magazine interviews just to name a few. A commercial campaign just isn't necessary and isn't wh...

Bane, do you really think this thread exists in a vacuum? It's not like we haven't both been posting here for years. It's obvious that if you DID agree with the policy you would not be dismissing a PSA as "touchy-feely" and as propaganda. It's not that hard to infer from what you do say. ...