Reflections From a Murky Pond

Fairly recently during an interview with BET, Joy Reid warned her Black viewers with a surfeit of anger, horror, and outrage that “people on the right” – that’d be true-born and rightly-raised Americans – want to “go back” to when there was no income tax and no regulations upon business, to when Americans could earn as much many as we wanted and leave 100% to a children. Oh yeah! And we’re racist and White Supremacists for wanting that… or we want that because we’re racist and White Supremacists.

And, of course, she added in the Democrat shibboleth of President Trump and we, his 70+ million supporters, being Fascists. That’s, however, almost not noteworthy since Dems seem to be required by their dogma to call us Nazis and/or Fascists during every screed.

All that being said, she’s not entirely wrong. Most Americans would love to eliminate or greatly reduce federal income taxes. Many of us would similarly love to eliminate or reduce state income taxes. And, all of us who have children would absolutely love the total elimination of Inheritance Taxes so that we could, in fact, leave 100% of our wealth to our descendants.

Also, a majority of us realize that the elimination or significant reduction in income tax won’t eliminate our tax burdens as much as many – apparently, including Reid – might think. In all probability, income tax would be partially replaced by specific levies for specific purposes, e.g., roads, public services, and actual national defense. But, since such levies would need to be voted for, we would have a bit more say in how our tax monies were spent… like we used to before 1933.

Reid’s a bit off with her accusation that we want to return to the time when there were no restrictions on business. What most of us would love is a reduction in many business regulations, especially in all manufacturing sectors, a sanity check for those regulations, and the elimination of punitive regulations meant to stifle certain industries. Americans also want to end Regulatory Capture, which is partially responsible for the inconsistent and twisted set of regulations that our businesses are burdened with today.

In point of fact – yeah, not something that sits well with things like Reid – a majority of “people on the right” want more, stricter, and stronger regulations on the banking and finance industry, especially the Derivatives Market. The insanity that is the new Rent-Backed Securities (RBS) is something that we who understand such things even a little hate at least as much as the Democrats do.

So, for the most part, Reid is right. Americans want to return to a time when we weren’t taxed and regulated into economic mediocrity, and absolutely want to be able to leave all of our wealth to our children if we choose to do so, instead of the government seizing a portion of it when we die.

The fact that Reid felt the need to state this as a dire warning couched in racism and White Supremacy says a great deal more about her, her audience, and the Blacks than it does the American people.

I don’t normally poke fun at retards or other mentally deficient people, but schadenfreude is schadenfreude, and Greta Thunburg was asking for it. And, she’s 22, a full, legal adult who has made her own choices.

Every American knows that the Democrats, especially their politicians, despise religion and any thought of the Divine – especially the Christians’ God. Though, admittedly, they mouth solidarity with Muslims. It is, however, rare for one of their politicians to come out and say so with its out-loud voice. Yet that’s exactly what one of them, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), recently did.

The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rules on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our government is extremely troubling.

— Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)

Funny, our nation was literally founded upon the exact opposite position. Right in the Declaration of Independence, they penned and published:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Also, the assertion that “the constitution enumerates our rights, it doesn’t grant them” is a fundamental principle of American constitutional law. The Constitution was designed to protect preexisting, inherent rights, not create them, by placing restrictions on governmental power. The Ninth Amendment further clarifies this, stating that the list of enumerated rights does not deny or disparage other rights retained by the People.

What’s actually extremely troubling is Kaine, who holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Harvard, either firmly believes or is willing to claim the opposite.

Horrific as his assertion is, it’s not that surprising coming from a Democrat – though again, it’s rare for them to be that honest. After all, the Democrats et al believe that the highest authority in America is the federal government. The very thought of a higher power makes them gnash their teeth – and occasionally commit mass murder.

Understand, though, if your “rights” come from mortal authority, they’re merely “legal rights,” which are nothing but privileges codified into law, and which can be stripped from you at that authority’s discretion at any time and for any reason or no reason at all.

I’d feel sorry for Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) if he hadn’t brought this whole thing down upon his own head. The crybaby tried to play hardball and “stand up to Trump” – even though his self-appointed enemies in this case are Republican Senators and Congressmen – by shutting down large swaths of the federal government unless Republican Senators and President Trump capitulated to the Dems’ irrational demands. And now, the poor fool is finding out just how unpopular his actions were and are… among those who actually even care about it at all.

But then, this is what happens when a politician is only concerned with keeping their job instead of properly doing their job. Crying Chuck is terrified of being primaried and ousted by the further-left elements in his party, a “risk” that is exacerbated by Schumer being from NY, one of the areas where that sort is concentrated. He’s terrified that AOC – who will neither confirm nor deny that she was his Senate seat – will win in a primary election against him unless he does what her wing of their party demands.

Babylon Bee hits it out of the park again. The Dems’ performative outrage over recent indictments of those who committed various crimes in the course of their lawfare against Donald Trump is wholly and solely based upon the targets not being President Trump or his allies.