By Wayne Allyn Root
This isn’t insanity. It’s insanity squared. Since the day Obama took office he has tried to fleece, tax, regulate, redistribute, harass, and hound small business to death. I’ve argued again and again in media appearances and commentaries that Obama’s strategy appears to be right out of the playbook of Cloward & Piven, two Marxist professors from Columbia University (where Obama and I graduated as classmates in 1983). That strategy is overwhelming the business community, taxpayers, and high-income earners with so many socialist, Big Brother-like, job-killing bills, that we get dizzy and exhausted trying to keep up with them. Eventually they overwhelm the economy, cause massive unemployment, crisis, and dependency on big government. It’s happening before our very eyes — millions of Americans are now on 99 weeks of unemployment benefits; 45 million are dependent on food stamps; over 90 teenage girls are pregnant at the same time in one Memphis high school — all sure to go on welfare, food stamps and aid to dependent children for life.That’s one school. The system is officially overwhelmed.
It’s true that Obama took a few days off to portray himself as a friend to business and a born-again tax cutter. But after a short rest, the old Obama is back. The man is a relentless Ginsu salesman for taxes, spending and socialism. The overwhelming attack has started all over again.
In just the past few days, Obama has put the White House in partnership with the Bar Association in a brazen attempt to impose lawyers on every businessman and women in America. Then he suggested dramatically raising unemployment taxes on businesses. Then he proposed a dramatic reduction of tax deductions for homeowners and charitable givers. Next up in the “tax murderer’s row” was Obama’s announcement of his 10-year plan to reduce the national debt. It happened to cut the debt by a measly $1 trillion, while simultaneously raising taxes by about $1 trillion — including the largest income tax increase in U.S. history. Obama is relentless — he attacks from so many angles, that even the strongest of fiscal conservatives eventually grows weak and punch drunk.
But wait, we’re not done. Obama has more! The “Ginsu guy” is also selling a big heaping dose of Big Brother– simultaneously attempting to unionize American business through new rules implemented by the National Labor Relations Board, and impose cap and trade (that he couldn’t pass through Congress) through new EPA rules. Those draconian new EPA rules put Obama and Big Brother in control of industrial America, big energy, even the trucking industry — the delivery system for all goods.
But wait, Obama isn’t done yet. There’s more to dislike. The IRS has just announced a request for thousands of new auditors and agents, at a cost of almost $400,000,000 just to oversee the start of Obamacare in 2012. We get 81 new IRS agents just to oversee the new tax on tanning beds. What a deal! Wait until you see what the IRS requests when Obamacare moves into full gear.
Back to the biggest insult of all — the lawyers. Obama has put the government in partnership with the American Bar Association. This re-defines unconstitutional. From now on, anyone who calls the White House or the Department of Labor to complain about their boss will be given a Toll Free 800 number (think Ginsu knives) that connects directly to trial lawyers. The American Bar Association has agreed to provide an army of lawyers that will work for free — no up front legal fees, only a cut of the action — to sue American business.
But wait, there’s more. Michelle Obama wants to encourage breast-feeding, especially (her words) in the African-American community. So from now on the IRS will make breast pumps and other breast-feeding products tax deductible. Will she offer “extra credit” for being black and breast-feeding? Perhaps our first-ever affirmative action tax deduction?
Is this really our country? Your home mortgage should no longer be deductible according to Obama. Neither should your charitable giving to churches or synagogues. Your money isn’t yours according to Obama. It belongs to government. It is needed for redistribution to Obama’s contributors, cronies and entitlement-addicted voters. You can’t even choose to tan without paying additional taxes. Your business will be hounded by lawyers, in partnership with government. You are ordered by government to buy health insurance or face fines or prison. And all of it will be overseen by a new army of IRS agents.
What’s the difference between Obama and a Ginsu salesman? With the Ginsu guy you actually get 10 items for one low price. With Obama, you lose everything you’ve got — your home, your income, your business. All you wind up with is a tax-deductible breast-feeding pump. Somehow without the force of government putting a gun to our heads, I don’t think Obama’s product would sell.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
I wanted to try and post Bozo the clown and a doggie.
Yes, we been aware of that, that is a big scary.
I am aware I can’t post those type of things.
I already tried a long time ago to post an Obama
witch Doctor picture of him. Obamacare.
@31 – agreed
And the prior precedent: 1981-1993
@29 – most people ignore the growing difference between taxation & spending from 2001-2009
However, you can’t do this:
: plus ) equals 🙂
: plus P equals 😛
: plus D equals 😀
; plus ) equals 😉
Leave out the word plus to make the smiley
I’m not sure what you were trying to do there …
No downloads. Just type : followed by ) and it makes 🙂
: followed by P makes 😛 and so on
Wish you had a smiley box already attached to this leave a comment. It is easier.
Smileys help too especially if someone is being sarcastic.
Blanton was being sarcastic, and you can do smileys. You just can’t post images or videos. Here’s how you post smileys:
http://www.quiltersbee.com/qbsmiley.htm
If this is true. LPHQ is only hurting themselves as well as the rest of the hard working serious people. People who are too busy nick-picking on the small stuff when we got things on such a huge scale, which the nick-picking is a waste of time. If these people cannot get with the program then they need to be removed.
To bad we don’t have access to putting smileys on some of our blogs.
Is it too late for me to get on the Wayne Train and begin gushing and fawning over the man who will save America from the evil Marxist Obama?
With each word he writes, Root gets better and better. FOX News should give Root a nightly 4-hour show to focus on exposing how Obama is destroying America.
It is beginning to become obvious that there is a conspiracy against Wayne at LPHQ. There is apparently a cover-up to prevent LP members from knowing about the millions of new members signing up after reading or hearing Wayne’s libertarian message.
Obviously, Wayne’s message is so strong that there must be thousands of people joining the LP everyday. LPHQ must be hiding these numbers along with the millions and millions of dollars Wayne’s new recruits are contributing. There should be an audit immediately.
Well, I’m going to go put up a WAR poster on the ceiling over my bed now.
Wayne is a genius and a strikingly handsome man – like a Greek God. I pray there will be a new article at NewsMax tomorrow that I can e-mail to every person I know.
@ 20 When you’re right, you’re right, and this time you are right.
What on earth are you trying to enunciate, with your silly mantra, repeated as if repetition makes wisdom…..
“WAR is” ??? WTF? There, we can duel with three letter abbreviations all day, and it results in no intellectual enlightenment, no advancement towards truth, no gain for Independent parties such as the Libertarians.
So, I say, begone TROLL!!
As Thoreau said, stop striking at the branches, STRIKE THE ROOT!
When the ROOT is ROTTen the Tree of Liberty WEAKENS FROM WITHIN.
Money is not the ROOT of all evil
WAR is!
Stop striking at the branches, STRIKE THE ROOT!
WAR is the ROTTen ROOT of all EVIL that ROTs the Tree of Liberty.
Stop striking at the branches, STRIKE THE ROOT!
Wayne Allyn Root Flip Flops on Hosni Mubarak (is Wayne Root Jealous…will Mubarak and Duvalier fill LNC vacancies and run for LP P/VP nomination…stay tuned!)
http://libertarianpeacenik.blogspot.com/2011/02/wayne-allyn-root-flip-flops-on-hosni.html
On February 3, 2011, Birther conspiracy source and Libertarian embarrassment, Wayne Allyn Root, suggested that the vast majority of Egyptians loved Hosni Mubarak.
One week later, on February 10, after an outcry from Libertarians, Root did a 180 flip-flop and condemned Mubarak for being a tyrant.
This is one of Root’s fastest 180 flip-flops to date. Even faster, I think, then when he announced that he would testify against Obama at Reverend Manning’s Birther sham trial, only to call it off following another outcry from Libertarians.
Then there are Root’s flip flops on gay marriage (against it, then for it, then for state’s rights on it), and foreign non-intervention [pro-war on Iraq (2006); then “Iraq is the wrong war, Iran is the right war” (2007); then radical non-interventionist (early 2008); then pro-Afghan surge (late 2008); then attack’s Obama’s Afghan surge (2009)…”]
Antiwar is my issue, but even I can’t keep up with all of Root’s shifting positions.
All these flip-flops imply a hollow man, a man without principles, an opportunist. Certainly not a serious libertarian thinker, much less “one of America’s leading libertarian thinkers” as Root sometimes likes to spin himself.
Root not only flip-flops, but he does so without explanation or apology. No mea culpas. No thought-provoking essays on why, after long and difficult consideration, he realized that he was previously wrong and these are the reasons he changed his mind.
Root’s flip-flops are positively Stalinesque in their swiftness, completeness, and ignoring that there even was a change.
This mindless, unprincipled, shameless, Stalinesque flip-flopping of political positions is best satirized in George Orwell’s 1984.
Recall the scene wherein an Inner Party member gives an impassioned speech denouncing the Eurasian enemy. In the middle of his speech, he is handed a revised speech. He continues his speech without missing a beat, without losing his passion — only now he is denouncing the Eastasian enemy, as though it were always so. Nor expecting anyone in the audience to notice or object.
But most LP members are not mindless Ingsoc members who force themselves to ignore party contradictions and historical revisions.
Doubtless, if Root seeks the LP’s 2012 presidential nomination, he will hope that party members will remember him only as an early leader in the opposition against Mubarak, and that his previous praise of Mubarak will be buried by Google.
LP members must remember Root’s long history of flip-flops, and remind others.
Breat pumps would be much easier for young mothers (whether black, white, brown, or purple) to afford if there was no income tax.
Are you sure? Let’s not jump to any hasty conclusions here, LOL
I think Wayne was showing how *silly* the whole tax scheme is.
How the IRS and Federal Government play favorites and social engineer.
TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE!
@ 12
Root attacks Obama for promoting tax deductions for breast pumps?
Yet if Obama were to forbid tax deductions for breast pumps, Root would attack Obama for that.
Does anyone doubt that?
I’m beginning to think that Wayne doesn’t like Obama.
But wait, there’s more. Michelle Obama wants to encourage breast-feeding, especially (her words) in the African-American community. So from now on the IRS will make breast pumps and other breast-feeding products tax deductible.
Not sure what is wrong with breast feeding. Or tax deductions, as we need more of them.
And deductions for breast pumps are surely cheaper than expensive infant formula, which taxpayers are already paying for.
IMHO, the argument should be about using the tax code for social engineering.
My biggest problem with this essay however is Root never mentions Obama’s co-conspirators, his republican lapdogs.
PEACE
Obama sells ginsu, Wayne Root sells the Libertarian message.
Obama sells out America, peace, freedom and civil and economic liberties.
Root sells out the Libertarian message.
Someone should rewrite this essay with Root in the role of Obama and the LP in the role of America. I might do it if I get bored, but probably not, so have at it.
@9 – Root sells Root
Obama sells ginsu, Wayne Root sells the Libertarian message.
PA @ 6″…meant to propel Wayne into the anal’s of assdom to a depth that only some porn stars have dared to reach.”
Thanks for the hilarious misspelling of ‘annals’. It made my day!
Obama sells Ginsu, Root sells Wealth Masters……
It is like reading vomit.
A blissfully ignorant spewing of nothingness, meant to propel Wayne into the anal’s of assdom to a depth that only some porn stars have dared to reach.
The way that Wayne is able to pin all the problems of the United States on one single man is amazing.
You would think, like a Jenga, eventually his turds of ignorance would collapse under their own weight.
If the Libertarian Party gets a foothold next season, Wayne will be waiting in the wings to make sure everyone knows …. there is nothing to see here.
Root touches on several different IRS deductions, yet misses the big picture – the IRS should be eliminated!
….anyway you cut it, that’s what turns me on sexually. Sorry, I guess I was just born that way.
Root’s Obama slams always imply that American government fundamentally changed when Obama replaced Bush.
Here’s how I’d change Root’s piece:
“Since the day Obama took office …” it’s been business as usual.
Combining this article with the last one,
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/02/libertarian-party-obama-kowtows-to-military-industrial-complex/
A more complete picture emerges: Obama is the smiling salesman of the warfare/welfare state on inhuman growth hormone.
Root’s commentaries should be printed in the TV Guide. It could be called “In Case You Missed It: Glenn Beck” and it would restate all of Beck’s lunacy of the past few weeks. This one could be reprinted without any editing.