Barack Obama does NOT emulate JFK; SAY “NO” TO ANY INCREASE IN TAXATION

One Democrat's Opinion:

Date:  31 Ja 08

    As a Democrat of more than 45 years (my first vote was for JFK), the major reason I will never support Barack Obama is his promoting of bigger, more powerful, more intrusive government, coupled with his support of raising taxes.  Neither will I ever support the ultimate opportunist, a person who will adjust her quest of the presidency to anything that will gain personal power for herself; Hillary Clinton

    Already Americans are among the highest taxed population of the entire world. We endure such a myriad of local, county, state, regional and federal taxes that I would hesitate to attempt to name all of them.   Every homeowner/employee/business owner/automobile owner and generally every consumer, is required to pay at least 30 different taxes and fees levied by various governing bodies.  In addition, a huge proportion of the federal taxes we pay are sent abroad and used in competition against us, and even for the purchase of munitions to be used in warfare against America. 

    What is really needed is to rid government of the tens of thousands of overpaid, redundant and useless bureaucrats who drain away the taxes we pay in excessively huge salaries.  Keep only those federal bureaucrats who perform Constitutionally legitimate functions. Let's not forget the Billions in "earmarks"/"pork" that go to cronies and collaborators of almost all of the Republican and Democrat Senators and Members of Congress. "Earmarks" can only be compared to embezzlement, money laundering, and other criminal methods of financial fraud that can result in long prison terms in the productive (private) sector.

    Just to eliminate the dishonesty, the vile and corrupt practice of "earmarks"/"pork" in Washington would likely eliminate any need for the federal personal income tax.  Also, just the combined salaries paid to IRS employees (not counting the vast number of other government agency's payrolls) is apparently more than is collected in federal personal income taxes; thus the IRS is nothing more than an artificial method of putting people on the federal payroll at taxpayer expense.

    Americans certainly do not need additional or increased taxation!  What is needed it tax relief. The amounts collected in taxes are far more than enough to run all legal functions of our country and to keep the infrastructure in sound condition.  The waste, the "earmarks", the corruption, the excess employment in government, "foreign aid", is where so much of our tax funds go.  In this category Congress Member Ron Paul (though calling himself a Republican) very definitely has the right stand on taxation.

    JFK gave us the biggest tax reduction in US history, thus restoring a faltering economy.  JFK stood firm on national defense as witnessed by the USSR/Cuban Missile crisis when Soviet nuclear rockets were aimed at several American cities, and World War III was barely averted by one of the two great presidents of the second half of the 20th Century.  JFK repeatedly ignored the United Nations in upholding American military, naval and economic sovereignty. 

    Obviously, and beyond doubt, Barack Obama very certainly DOES NOT uphold John F. Kennedy's resolve to maintain American sovereignty and leadership, nor does he represent our Constitutional limitations on federal powers that are designed to prevent interference into personal affairs and trampling on individual human rights.

A. Benton Edmons, editorialist, The Centrist Democrat International
13536 Lakewood Bl, PMB 326,

Bell flower, CA, USA 90706-2031

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