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OK .. I'LL ADMIT I'M JEALOUS

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Neal Boortz
@ April 15, 2009 8:32 AM
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I'm excited about the tea party tax protests taking place around the country today. I'll admit, at first I wasn't all that thrilled ... but I've come around. I'm hoping that we have a collective count of millions of Americans protesting big government and high taxes before this Tax Day has ended. I think we all know that the media will do anything it can to denigrate these protestors and to write off the rallies as just some sort of a right-wing temper tantrum. Believe me, there are many so-called "journalists" out there who see these protests in exactly that light. These are nothing but a bunch of greedy conservatives who don't want to pay their fair share of the taxes that are needed to run our country and help the less fortunate ... right? Can't you hear it?

Jealous? Yeah. I am. I would love for these to all be FairTax rallies. There will, though, be FairTax signs and supporters at all of them. The simple truth here is that it is easier to be against something (taxes) than it is to be for something (The FairTax). But protesting the confiscatory tax rates of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States is a great start. Every day more people learn of the FairTax and like what they see. We can't turn this mess around in a week, a month or a year. Just keep plugging.

In the meantime ... annoy liberals, annoy the government, and annoy the media. Show up at one of these rallies and let them know how you feel about our tax-and-spend culture in Washington.

I'll tell you one thing: The people who show up at these tea parties are, for the most part, far better Americans than those who put this dangerous anti-capitalist into the White House. And yes ... I mean that.



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  • anti-capitalist
    Neal Just say it is because he is black. Are you a coward to admit it. I would respect you more if you would admit to that rather than finding silly excuses.
  • Whoa!
    Good Lord! That chick on the right is one homely girl!

    What? Someone photoshopped Neal's face onto a girl's body? Okay, but she's still homely! ;P
  • Good hair day
    Mike L.

    What hair. Nealz as bald as I am.
  • TEA Party Coverage on MSM vs. FOX
    I was watching Fox and Friends this morning and decided to surf the other morning shows. Fox was covering the TEA party locations and talking to people about tax day. CBS wasn't. They had on a segment discussing the Homeland Security report about the threat represented by right wing extremists and Veterans. They weren't reporting on how ludicrous it was, oh no. They were covering it as an eminent and growing concern of great importance.

    I would have pulled an Elvis on the TV if I weren't so attached to it; 50" Plasma ya know. ;-)
  • The Captain and TeaNeal
    I don't know Neal...a little wine, some dim light, some funny tea...NAAA
  • Good Nuze Neal!
    I know you're jealous, but check out all the Tweets in which ppl mention both the Fair Tax AND the Tea Parties! The Fair Tax is definitely on the minds of those behind the Tea Parties!

    http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1526636985&page=1&q="fair+tax"&rpp=20
  • tea party
    i keep repeating this to the ignoramouses on the left, but the tea parties are about a lot of issues that have escalated in the past 3 months with Barack Obama acting like a kid in a candy store when it comes to overspending on some useless government programs that never worked in the past. Here's a good article on what the tea parties are about:

    http://www.examiner.com/x-6571-Atlanta-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m4d12-The-Tea-Parties--whats-in-the-name
  • ah, neal, you should have gone on Fox with Glenn yesterday. He said he doesn't support Fair Tax because he believes that with it the gov't will still control people through taxation, by putting huge tax on some items because "only the rich buy them" and no tax on others because only the poor buy them, etc.
    The guy that Glen had on the show agreed with him on that, saying that this is already being done to some extend, and it would only escalate with Fair Tax.
    If someone here has a counter-argument please share, I'm very interested in Fair Tax but what Glen was saying made a lot of sense. :(
  • good hair day
    Neal, your hair looks better in this pic than at the golf tourney the other day.
  • Boston Tea Party
    CNN had a ~3min news report from the tea party in Boston and I just had to say I laughed out loud when a guy with a large, red sign that read, "DUMP BARNEY" was paraded behind the reporter.
    Gotta love it!
  • Hugo=Tool
    Spoken like a true guv,mnt teat sucking lib. One of the days you will grow up and realize that you should have been paying more attention instead of following the dumbmasses. Try to be a leader and not a follower.
  • Fair Tax
    Neal, I just got done listening to some idiot call your show claiming that the Fair Tax would be higher than 23%. When I hear these idiots I want to scream.

    Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. 23%? 35%? 50%? Who cares? The tax rate isn't etched in stone. We get a conservative President and congress, it's going to go down. We get a liberal President and congress, it's going to be increased. So who gives a flying fig what the rate is?

    The issue here is trying to do something about this Charlie Foxtrot we call a tax code. Listening to some moron arguing against the Fair Tax by belaboring the actual rate is like having two EMT's arguing about what brand of bandage to use while someone's bleeding to death at their feet. Come on, people. Let's keep sight of what's important here.
  • the"new" dept. of homeland security branding
    Be very careful in telling people to "go annoy the government,annoy the liberals, annoy the msn.." because the new dept.of homeboys security will brand you a rightwing terrorist instagating hatespeach & terrorism. Since GITMO is being dismantled you will be interned there at the renamed AIR AMERICA RADIO BROADCASTERS RE-EDUCATON COMPOUND(also known as Camp Frankenstin after the hero of radio & politics,Al Franken)where you will be tor...I mean re-educated into a community organizer to fit back into the Obamanation social pecking order...enjoy your new carreer under our great leader's wisdom
  • Addiction
    Neal,

    You need to realize that the first step in recovering from addiction (in this case, to addiction to Government) is accepting the fact that you have a problem. Many of these people are just now acknowledging that there is a problem. Many will come around to the idea of the Fair Tax. I think that is somewhere in the "learning to live life with a new code of behavior" phase...
  • Katherine
    Are you there?

    Or was this just a drive by?

    Oh, I get it, there's no defending your position...
  • UGH!
    Neal, as a woman you're a dead ringer for that moonbat chick on Link-TV.
  • Clinton NEVER had a surplus
    You people do realize...that Clinton left a budget surplus..."

    Hardly. Every year Clinton was in office, the federal debt increased[1]. While in government-ese, it may be deemed a surplus, in reality it is not.. What Clinton did, was borrow from one government account to another, one which wasn't "on the books" compared to one that was[2]. This shift was extrapolated out ten years, and THAT is what was called "Clinton's surplus." Like any statement from a politician, it was patently false.

    [1] http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
    [2] While the feds say we have $11 trillion in debt, you do realize we have over $50 trillion in "unfunded liabilities" including Social Security. While the feds may not call it debt, they still borrow from it.
  • Tea PArties
    Where were all these people on Election day? If they had shown up and voted against these tax and spend liberals they wouldn't need to be out there today...
  • Katherine...
    Please get your facts straight:
    The Reagan tax rates were flattend and reduced over the course of his presidency, resulting in increased revenues...spent very quickly by the Democrat controlled Congress. Reagan recognized that high marginal tax rates discourage effort, achievement and investment/savings. High tax rates make earners either earn less or find ways to hide their earnings (tax loopholes and tax evasion). A reduction in high marginal tax rates boosted long term growth, and reduced the need for tax shelters and other means of not paying taxes. The economic benefits Reagans tax reductions were summarized by President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers in a 1994 summary which pointed out that "It is undeniable that the sharp reduction in taxes in the early 1980s was a strong impetus to economic growth." ...the same growth that Clinton took credit for. Comparing Bush and Reagans tax rates is another straw dog. Marginal tax rates were much higher in the early 1980s, and thus more likely to have had distortive economic effects than the more moderate rates of the 2001-2008. Adjusting the effect of Reagans tax cut for inflation and the subsequent 1982 tax increase, scaling back the 1981 tax cut, the net rate is larger when looked at from the perspective of a percentage or share of GDP...2.1% for Reagan, and 1.5% for Bush.

    Clinton did not generate a surplus. This is a myth that even the Congressional Budget office disputes. Clinton was adept at manuevering facts and figures to an easily duped public. Clinton's national debt, made up of public debt and intergovernmental holdings, included things such as savings bonds and treasury bills (public debt: stuff purchased from the government) and intergovernmental holdings which is when the government borrows money from itself...mostly by robbing the social security "lockbox". What Clinton did was pay off much of the public debt by borrowing huge sums of intergovernmental holdings...again mostly Social Security. The situation was helped by the fact that Social Security Administration must, by law, use any surplus to purchase U.S. Government securities, which automatically a become intergovernmental holdings, adding to the impression of a surplus.
  • Wake Up Kathryn
    In spite of Clinton's "budget surplus", which refers to one column on the spreadsheet, the national debt grew under Clinton to nearly $6 trillion. You can look it up on the US Treasury website. Most people don't know what is referred to when politicians talk about the "budget surplus."

    I am a registered independent. Government spending has been out of control for decades under both parties. Obama's stimulus plan and budget make Bush look frugal. And it will grow government.

    I'll be at the Tea Party in my home town tonight. The tea baggers will be at home watching Olberman.
  • Oh yea
    Those Orlando Chicks are hot!

    And for you Ms Katherine it has nothing to do with the current admin. its about the tax code and wastefull spending by BOTH parties.

    Now that's a FACT.
  • Katherine
    You don't get it either. See my earlier response.
  • Katherine
    "You people do realize you're paying Bush's tax rates for 2008, right?"

    Do you realize this isn't JUST about taxes? It's about SPENDING more than three generations can produce. It's about government interference in our every day lives. It's about losing our constitutional rights. It's about restoring the Constitution and letting those in Washington know WE'VE HAD ENOUGH of their big government BS.
  • "Federal" Government?... no way!
    We no long have a "Federal" government. We have a CENTRAL government, a tyrannical government, a FACIST government but it is no longer in any way federal.
  • Katherine
    Have ya noticed that the tea parties are non-partisan? It's not a bunch of Bushies getting together and protesting Obama. It's people from various backgrounds who are fed up with the creeping scope of the increasingly intrusive federal government -- regardless of who's running it.

    Once again, a knee-jerk liberal who thinks that being a libertarian/conservative and a Bushie have to be synonymous. I can assure you that there are PLENTY of us who appreciated Bush's strength against Islamofascists but despised his spineless defense of our nation against big government and socialism.
  • Not what I thought
    I thought you were jealous that you weren't actually with the ladies.
  • Katherine
    You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
  • Welcome aboard, Neal!
    There is hope for you yet. :)
  • Butter
    That girl on the right is butter. Everything butter face.
  • Taxes
    You people do realize you're paying Bush's tax rates for 2008, right? And that they are lower than Reagan's were? And that Clinton left a budget surplus, and Bush promptly blew it on a war against the wrong country and expanded government to its largest, most intrusive size and reach in history?

    Just checking. Don't let facts get in the way of your little teabagging festival.
  • Hugo
    "It's not your fault. Don't feel bad, Neal-your little fairtax doesn't have a bunch of think tanks and lobbyists behind it like these teabagging parties do. You didn't really think this was a grassroots movement, did you?"
    By Hugo's ghost

    And???? Is there a point there or do you just really enjoy being a PITA? Careful or we'll be calling you Copy Jr.
  • I couldn't believe it....
    I'm glad you came around, Neal. I can only hope that the kakistocracy will hear the voices and actually listen.
    I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I actually heard the LSM seemingly PROMOTING the rallies! Maybe, just maybe they getting a clue.
  • The babe on the right
    May be hot! Needs a paper bag over her face.
  • OK...I'll admitt I'm a Conservative
    I'm going to the tea party tonight and I'll admiitt that I'm a conservative and probably most of the folks there will be conservatives. I don't see what's the big deal about that. Conservatives want smaller government and less spending as compared to liberals. If there was a pro-choice rally being held somewhere, I would think most in attendance would be liberals with a few conservatives thrown in here and there. I guess the only difference would be the media would NOT call the pro-choice rally as a gathering of disgruntled left-wing socialist nut jobs.
  • The brunette
    The brunette is HOT!! Just kidding.... stick to being a man Neal.
  • It's not your fault
    Don't feel bad, Neal-your little fairtax doesn't have a bunch of think tanks and lobbyists behind it like these teabagging parties do. You didn't really think this was a grassroots movement, did you?
  • picture
    Boy, that one on the right is definitely a "double-bagger"!

    I'll be attending our local TEA(Taxed Enough Already) Party tonight. Let's hope we have a big turn-out at everyone of them. Wherever you are, turn out and let your voice be heard!
  • Unfortunately life happens.
    I will be unable to attend the rally because of after school activities for my kids, but I'll be there in spirit and I'll be listening on the radio.
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