[TheRealThing]

They are both Democrats. Of course they will raise taxes. And Pike Co. being 75% Democrat it will pass. Pay up for more stupid government you stupid Dems.hh:

It's a big game. When the dems want more money they just sit around and dream up something new to tax people on. If they were to announce an increase on property taxes there would be an outcry. So how does the entrerprising and clever democrat get more money? Just make up a new tax that the people will more readily accept. We pay taxes on everything we buy from food to utilities. Example, have you ever noticed the so called surcharges on your cell phone bill? The word surcharge is code for the arbitrary charges everyone pays on their bill because the FEDERAL govt. has decreed that your cell phone provider of choice must provide non paying customers with service. Some of the surcharge slice of your cell phone bill pie goes to pay for all the cell phones for those who can't afford them. Most people don't know they pay for other folks to have phones. Then there are the taxes that are not disguised or hidden in cell phone billing practices. Altogether raising your bill about 15%.

We pay sales tax on our homes, vehicles, boats, rec vehicles, etc. Then we pay a yearly LIFE tax on these same items for perpetuity. We pay massive taxes on gasoline, the so called sin taxes, estate taxes, gift taxes, taxes on insurance of all kinds including the present day financially crippling health insurance we all need. We are even going to be taxed on our health insurance taxes to help pay for Obama Care. Federal income tax, State income tax, many people pay local income tax and on and on it goes.

This is the argument that rages in both houses of the legislative branch of our government and debated by the liberal and the conservative. Is it right to tax and spend our society to extinction over the fanciful notions of the secular humanist? Pesently we borrow 190 million dollars an hour last I heard. Or, should we spend only what we have at the federal and state level? Thereby, allowing working honest people to enjoy a morally reasonable portion of that which they have earned? Wouldn't that by definition reasonably be considered part of the liberty and freedom that should be the norm and not the exception in the United States?

Don't forget that those that serve God in this country are to give 10% of their substance to the church and the CHURCH is to then tend in no small degree to the interests of the needy. Added to that is the well known and often mentioned generosity of the American nation in general. We are a nation of givers. We probably don't need a government full of fleecers to force us to do the right thing.

The tax the millionaire argument being put out by the Obama adminstration is the quintessential example of the state forced benevolence being advocated these days. It's the perfect irony, the founding fathers concept of the seperation of church and state was perverted by these same people, liberals, from it's original intent which was the freedom ( from ) governmental meddling in the affairs of the church. To the position of being interpreted in a flip-flop fashion saying that the church by law was to have no voice in any way in government. This tactic has been used by folks like the ACLU and their ilk for the purpose of eliminating any mention of God in government from the inscription on the dollar bill "IN GOD WE TRUST", to the attempt at removing "ONE NATION UNDER GOD" from the pledge of allegiance, to physically altering the entrance of the supreme court, suggesting we should remove any reference to our Creator from even there. The present day circus in which the government functions, now believes itself to be the definer and the authority on what mankinds' moral behavior should be, not the chruch, and is legislating accordingly. Hence all this talk about redistributiion of wealth, which can best be accomplished by means of taxation, Obama Care, carbon footprints, Cap and Trade, and the saving the environment panic by the likes of Al Gore and corps.