Kerry Thomas Opinion & Commentary ~ Can You Afford To Vote Democrat

Can You Really Afford To Vote Democrat?

by Kerry Thomas

October 15, 2008

Given the economic circumstances in which we find ourselves this year, can you afford to vote Democrat in the November elections?

You may not realize it, but that question should be paramount as you ponder your vote.

There is a conservative in this race, but she’s on the Vice-Presidential ballot. In the race for President, of the two major political parties’ candidates, you have a choice between a moderate and a Marxist.

John McCain is not a conservative, by anyone’s standards. He’s a moderate, in the tradition of Republican moderates. He is willing and able to strike compromise deals with Democrats, as evidenced by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, the McCain-Lieberman climate control bill, and numerous other “bi-partisan” legislative efforts by John McCain over the years.

However, John McCain is a man of his word. He has sworn oaths to preserve and protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. And he has never broken those oaths.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a committed Marxist. He launched his political career from the living room of a domestic terrorist. He’s a Chicago politician, where the phrase “vote early and vote often” is taken literally. The Democrats this year have even begun to advertise “Vote Early” on billboards across America.

Obama has long ties to the “community organizing” group ACORN, which is currently under investigation in 14 states, including Wisconsin, for numerous and repeated instances of voter fraud. Some of their more infamous efforts, at least according to news reports, include registering the Dallas Cowboys football team to vote in Nevada and registering Mickey Mouse to vote in Florida. One man told reporters ACORN personnel had registered him 73 times.

Barack Obama gave this group $800,000 this year for such “get out the vote” efforts. This group has taken millions in taxpayer dollars over the years for such efforts. But this “non-partisan” group only seems to register Democrats.

On October 13, campaigning in Ohio, Barack Obama told a plumber that his (Obama’s) economic plan would “spread the wealth around.”

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

But it’s Barack Obama who wants to decide how your wealth should be spread around.

Barack Obama is a true believer in the maxim “from each, according to his means, to each, according to his needs” and a heavy progressive income tax. Those are fundamental planks of Marx’s Communist Manifesto.

Think about that maxim for a moment. “From each, according to his means, to each, according to his needs.” Barack Obama, using the force of law, will take from you whatever he thinks is a fair amount of your money, and give it to someone else. For those who receive this largess, you’ll only get enough to cover whatever Barack Obama thinks you need, not what you think you need or want. After all, that’s only fair.

A summary of Obama’s spending plans totals some $1.297 TRILLION in new spending in just one 4-year term as President. Just a few of the highlights:

To date, Obama’s announced new spending proposals totals $1.297 TRILLION. And that’s on top of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the $127 billion AIG bailout, the $25 billion to the auto makers, and all the other “bailouts” Congress has enacted in just the last month. All these plans were supposed to save us from ourselves.

The bailout bill did include a few minor tax benefits. But none of the Congressional actions bothered to include the one tried and true method for restoring a bustling economy, that being cutting taxes. It worked for Kennedy; it worked for Reagan; it even worked for George W. Bush in his first term. But tax cuts aren’t something a Democrat Congress will even consider.

Barack Obama and his fellow liberals know they can spend your money better than you can. And spend it they will.

The federal budget deficit for 2008 was just announced at $454.8 Billion. For 2009, the federal government is planning to spend $3.1 TRILLION of your tax dollars for you. And that’s just President Bush’s proposal. How much more would Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats be able to spend implementing their socialist agenda under an Obama administration?

John McCain may not be a conservative, but he has promised not to raise taxes. Barack Obama is promising a tax cut for “95% of all Americans.” He says he’ll only raise taxes on those making more than $250,000/year. But his math just doesn’t add up. And it doesn’t match his liberal voting record in the Senate, where he voted to raise taxes more than 90 times, including voting to raise taxes on people earning just $42,000/year.

Obama doesn’t tell you that if you’re a small business owner in America, and your business takes in more than $250,000/year, guess what? Your taxes are going up. If you work for one of these small businesses, would you rather see your employer pay higher taxes, or give you a raise?

In their third and final debate Wednesday night in New York, John McCain showed he gets it. Referring to Obama’s economic exchange with Joe Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business, McCain explained the differences between his and Obama’s views on tax policies.

“Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes," McCain challenged Obama.

"You were going to put him in a higher tax bracket which was going to increase his taxes, which was going to cause him not to be able to employ people, which Joe was trying to realize the American dream," McCain said.

McCain then looked directly into the TV camera and said: "Joe, I want to tell you, I'll not only help you buy that business that you worked your whole life for and I'll keep your taxes low and I'll provide available and affordable health care for you and your employees. And I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income."

In his response, Barack Obama proved he just doesn’t understand how small business works in this country.

Obama claimed “98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000.” The facts prove otherwise.

The US Small Business Administration (SBA) defines a 'small business' according to its average annual receipts or the number of its employees.

On October 13, Rush Limbaugh provided some insight into the state of small business in America today:

“Let's look at the maximum average annual receipts by industry that a business can have and still be classified as small business by the SBA.

"Crop production of all types: $750,000." Keep that $250,000 figure in mind because every business that I'm going to list here, every small business is far larger than $250,000 in receipts. Yet Obama says most small businesses do not make over $250,000.

“Did you know that forestry and logging has as many operators that are small businesses? It's a $7 million definition of a small business by the SBA.”

“These are various areas. The size of your business -- for example, if you're in housing construction and you're a business is under $33.5 million, you're considered a small business by the SBA.”

“Now, keep in mind, Obama says the vast majority of small businesses don't earn more than $250,000. Let me keep going.”

”Do you know some car dealers are small businesses? Those of you who work at them do. If you own a dealership or series of dealerships valued in your receipts (these are annual receipts) between $23 and $29 million, you're a small business.”

“Furniture, hardware, clothing & sporting good stores, if your receipts are under $7 million a year, you're considered a small business.”

“Electronic stores..." They're not talking the Circuit Citys, the Best Buys and all this. If you're a mom and pop electronics store, $7 million is the cutoff line for you to be called a small business.”

"Anything over that, and you're not a small business; anything under it, you are."

“Now, keep in mind, 250 grand. Obama in the presidential town hall debate said, "Only a few percent of small businesses make more than $250,000 a year. So the vast majority of small businesses would get a tax cut under my plan."

“The truth is that if he's going to implement a plan that people over 250 grand personally or small business, Subchapter S filing under a personal return, if he's going to have a tax increase on anybody more than 250 grand, 99% of small business is going to get a huge tax increase!”

“The very little guy that Obama claims to want to help is the very guy that's going to get clipped here, because once these taxes go up the first instinct of the small businessman or woman is to survive as a small business.“

”If your taxes go up and you have an economy like this and you cannot grow for a little while because people don't have a whole lot of disposable income because their taxes are going up, too, what are you going to do?”

“You can't keep paying people if your business is going down. Your job is to have your business survive because you have to go through the up and down cycles. You're going to have to lay people off. The business cannot purposely lose money for humanitarian reasons, for a very long time.”

“If it does, it will go out of business and nobody will get anything from it.”

For Republicans and conservatives, for anyone working in a small business, for anyone just trying to get ahead in these troubling economic times, there is no good choice in this year’s presidential race. But John McCain poses the least threat to your Liberty.

A vote for McCain will not raise your taxes, will not threaten your job, and will not threaten the Constitution.

A vote for Obama will put America one step closer to Marx’s socialist vision of a utopian world under communism.