Rep . Steve King 'empathizes' with the Austin Texas suicide attack on the IRS
Rep. Steve King really can relate to Joseph Stack's attack of the IRS building in Austin because he too was audited. A Media Matters staffer told TPM that King made these outrageous statements about the suicide plane attack at CPAC, Saturday night:
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could "empathize" with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to "implode" other IRS offices, according to a witness.
King's comments weren't recorded, but a staffer for Media Matters, who heard the comments, provided TPMmuckraker with an account.
The staffer, who requested anonymity because she's not a communications specialist, said that King, an extreme right-winger with a reputation for eyebrow-raising rhetoric, appeared as a surprise guest speaker on an immigration panel at the conservative conference. During his closing remarks, King veered into a complaint about high taxes, and said he could "empathize" with the man who flew a plane into an IRS building last week
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This is a man that is supposed to serve and protect America. He's a Congressman for God's sake.
Think Progress caught up with him later on and this is what he said.
TP: Do you think this attack, this terrorist attack, was motivated at all by a lot of the anti-tax rhetoric that’s popular in America right now?
KING: I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn’t have a target for his airplane. And I’m still for abolishing the IRS, I’ve been for it for thirty years and I’m for a national sales tax. [...] It’s sad the incident in Texas happened, but by the same token, it’s an agency that is unnecessary and when the day comes when that is over and we abolish the IRS, it’s going to be a happy day for America.
TP: So some of his grievances were legitimate?
KING: I don’t know if his grievances were legitimate, I’ve read part of the material. I can tell you I’ve been audited by the IRS and I’ve had the sense of ‘why is the IRS in my kitchen.’ Why do they have their thumb in the middle of my back. … It is intrusive and we can do a better job without them entirely.
These are the people that will be holding hearings on Capitol Hill if the House goes back toe the republicans. You can bet on it. The treatment ACORN received when they weren't in power is a prelude on things to come. People who don't mind nut-jobs from killing Americans like suicide bombers.
Michele "miss me yet?" Bachmann would actually be in a position of power too...
...I'm one of those that believes the federal income tax is illegal. I believe it's illegal on two fronts, one is that it states in the constitution that, (and I'm paraphrasing here), no one can be taxed on their labors, only on their investments. The other reason is that I don't believe the 16th ammendment was properly and legally ratified. I understand there's a need for taxes to fund government programs and I'm mostly ok with that notion but based on my independent research, it doesn't seem currently legal to do so. I know that doesn't stop the IRS and the federal government from coming down hard on people who argue against it's legality and that keeps us mostly in line. I have a hard time making Joseph Stack's suicide attack partisan soley representing right wing beliefs. I'm not condoning Stack's attack, only that his belief system about the IRS and taxes in general I think may cross party lines more than people think.
"(and I'm paraphrasing here), no one can be taxed on their labors, only on their investments."
...actually.
The SCOTUS... (before ww2) has defined the word "income" as profit from corporate activity. (multiple times in different cases!)
and the constitution actually says "representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states.
...and since direct taxes are unconstitutional, (unless apportioned) ...then "an income tax" is obviously not a direct tax...but a "privelege tax" (corporate privelege!)
Income is money that "comes in" ...from corporate activity.
It is not wages salaries and tips. (unless you are a govt employee)
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...I knew about the apportioned tax part of it....serves me right for trying so hard to be first on comments.
AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever sources derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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Thank you ysb. :)
Too bad Milquetoast is too dense to let that fact sink in. And so much for teabaggers loving themselves some U.S. Constitution.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
The return in money from one's business, labor, or capital invested; gains, profits, salary, wages, etc.
The gain derived from capital, from labor or effort, or both combined, including profit or gain through sale or conversion of capital. Income is not a gain accruing to capital or a growth in the value of the investment, but is a profit, something of exchangeable value, proceeding from the property and being received or drawn by the recipient for separate use, benefit, and disposal. That which comes in or is received from any business, or investment of capital, without reference to outgoing expenditures.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
1. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
[Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
In other words, and employer pays wages, but his employee receives income; the distinctions is similar to one who implies and the other infers.
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Yeah, A national sales tax. Good idea. Because then if we need to build, say, a million more nukes, or bail out the banks, we could simply "adjust" the tax on certain items.
Like tea for example.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Right now sales tax are exclusively for state and local governance for financing their projects.
Sales taxes are regressive, meaning the working poor pay less in actual dollars than the wealthier, but spend more as a percentage of their income, literally choosing between repairing shoes, paying the mortgage, or buying groceries.
And more and more of us are the new working poor, so that's working against our own interest in a classic case of false consciousness.
And we tend to pay more for payroll taxes to support such things we depend on like Social Security and Medicare, and less in income taxes, due to depreciations and exemptions.
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Good luck with your campaign terrorist sympathizer.
Now I see how the right can twist anything and make a dirty word out of something admirable.
In other words: vote Democratic or else?
That's not good enough.
A corollary might be that Democrats better start cultivating their base, or they'll be putting the nut-jobs in power.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I don't see any controversy in saying that Joseph Stack's grievances were legitimate. The way he ACTED on those grievances are definitely questionable, but Stack's letter, I admit, struck a cord with me. This guy seemed to try numerous different paths to overcome his plight, and nothing worked. Killing someone in an IRS building doesn't solve anything, but we all should do something to address the massive (and growing!) divide between the rich and poor in this country. We're looking more and more like a third world country, and Obama, unfortunately, seems to be fighting on the side of the rich.
I empathize with Joseph Stack's sentiments (not his actions), I don't think he was just some crazy tea-bagger, and I think if anything, this incident has brought attention to the fact that there are root causes behind all forms of terrorism. Let's fight the war on terror by addressing those root causes.
He owned a plane, so he had some kind of money. His problems started in 1986, with a change in tax law regarding software companies, CBS reports. CBS quoted someone who stated Stack seemed to be looking for a way out of the withholding tax and that he seemed to want to get out of paying any tax. So I am not sure his "grievances were legitimate." Even Ben Franklin said two things in life are certain: 1.) death and 2.) taxes. Looks like Stack's obsession with escaping No. 2 led to (his) No. 1. Stupid waste.
they need to be audited and abolished!
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You don't understand either?
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...clueless.
(It sometime takes a time or two before I "get it")
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"I am clueless."
That's the first honest and true thing you've said.
Besides which there still would be taxes but no way of accounting for them without the creation of another similar agency without creating a new amendment to supplant the XVI Amendment.
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...anyway!
I'm pretty sure the IRS has never been audited...
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Part of that would be because there are too many books that remain closed due to security concerns, not just military, but intelligence, both foreign and counter, and the forces necessary for defending our mainland, our industries and others.
Not all forces are for offensive use.
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And the treasury and various sub-committee oversee the IRS.
The main one is presumably the US GAO.
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oversees the IRS?
(god help us)
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And he answers to Obama.
And the GAO is the investigative arm of Congress not the Treasury.
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We all hate taxes (my big beef is complexity), but we all want the government to do some things. Paying Rep. King is not one of them.
who bragged about using an automatic pistol to blow apart a raccoon who was outside his house during a terrible snow storm. The creature had the unmitigated gall to try and get into King's house for safety and warmth. Would King bother to call animal control or at least let the poor animal stay in his garage? Nope. He shot it dead then bragged about it. P.O.S.
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
offender registry, just like the sex offender registry. It's a crying shame that we can't see this arsehole's ugly kisser in one of those.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
...considering that a history of animal cruelty is considered to be one of the signature characteristics of a psychopath/sociopath -- and since there is reason to believe that the sociopath's lack of empathy or conscience makes him at least marginally more prone to commit crimes than the average citizen -- this might have additional benefits above and beyond discouraging animal abuse.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
figured some people would poo-poo the idea of it, but now that you mention it, they had better not, because you're right, it may have many more benefits for society.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
My guess is semi-auto. I don't believe Desert Eagle makes a full auto. And as for letting it into his garage? Have you ever seen the damage a raccoon can do? Along with the chance of it being diseased.
According to him, his wife had seen it trying to get into the house before, that is not normal behavior for a wild animal. So there is some chance that it was diseased. He's supposed to just let it keep trying to get in and continue to damage his home?
And call animal control? Every animal control I've heard of doesn't deal with wild animals. And I have no idea how Iowas Conservation Officers are but in my state good luck. I've known people who have called about aggressive coyotes, they were told to call the police, the police said to call animal control, animal control said to call DNR.
If memory serves, they come in a variety of sizes including some which are big enough for raccoons. Did it even occur to him to try that? Congresscritters get paid mighty well and such traps are not that expensive, so cost should not have been an issue for him.
Besides, while trying to get into a human house might not be normal behavior for many wild animal species, it's more common than you seem to think for omnivorous species such as raccoons which obtain a lot of their food by scavenging. Since raccoons can and will eat almost anything which is reasonably edible and since they have very agile paws, raccoons in suburban and even urban areas have learned to rely on human garbage as a source of food -- and since they prefer to make a home in sheltered places such as holes or hollow trees, it's actually not all that unusual for them to take shelter in human houses if they can find a way inside. Yes, raccoons have been known to carry diseases -- but a raccoon which has found its way inside a human house (especially one which has taken shelter there during a snowstorm) is not by itself indication that the raccoon is diseased.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
and around houses for scraps of food, and it doesn't mean they have disease. And the punishment for being cold and/or hungry shouldn't be being needlessly shot to death.
I mean, Tim, haven't you seen that commercial for Lens Crafters where this woman who desperately needs glasses lets a racoon into her house because she think it's her cat? Racoons go into people's homes way more than ya think.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Since when have Republicans like King (or TimJoeBillyBob) allowed irrelevant or irritating things like facts to get in their way -- or even merit their attention?
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
You are correct that it is a semi auto but everyone knows they are called automatic. As in the Colt AUTOMATIC Pistol. That's what the Colt 1911 is known as. And that is why the cartridge is called a 45APC. As in AUTOMATIC Pistol Cartridge. The Desert Eagle is just a larger version of that pistol and cartridge. Jesus you'd almost think you fake 'conservatives' would be aware of gun related shit like that. Starcats did NOT mean full auto and everyone reading here but you was aware of that.
when the 1911 was introduced it was named the Colt automatic pistol. As in auto loading. And no they are not called automatics at least not in the last 50 years or so. And one more thing, its the .45 acp, Automatic Colt Pistol. If your going to correct me at least try not to make silly mistakes like that.
With one isssue.....Guns. If it feels its precious guns are being attacked, it will whine like a shot raccoon. Pretty pathetic.
Don't you realize that paying taxes is the cost of living in a civilized society? OK, let's abolish taxes...and roads, and bridges, and armies, and police, and firefighters, and garbage disposal and Medicare, and Social Security....We'll be just like Somalia! And Newt and his band of merry men can take to the high seas and become pirates who seize boats and hold them for ransom so the country can pay for some things. Meh!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
property taxes pay for schools...
gasoline taxes pay for roads...
sales taxes pay for police and fire...ect ect...
income tax only pays the national debt and enables the wars to continue!
If you hate war say fuck you this april 15th, if not, (your part of the problem)
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...is!
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I guess you don't trust the Congressional Budget Office, then -- because according to them, here's a rough breakdown of how your income taxes (which have made up the largest single source of federal revenues since 1950) get spent...
Medicare, Medicaid, other mandatory -- 33%
Social Security -- 21%
Defense -- 20%
Non-Defense Discretionary -- 18%
Interest On The Debt -- 8%
So explain to me...how is it exactly that Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security fall under the category of defense or paying off the debt? Hmmmmmmmmm?
It seems to me that whoever told you income taxes don't pay for anything but debts or war either wasn't any better informed than you are, or was for whatever reason deliberately misrepresenting the truth.
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Shouldn't he be empathizing with the dead and injured who did nothing more than go to work?
After all, the bomber is dead, he ain't gonna be voting for anyone anymore.
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..but, you know, ahem, republican't.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Steve King is an opportunistic scumbag politician.
Rest in peace, Vernon Hunter. You will never be forgotten.
of apologism anger you again.
Ok? Ok. I guess...
Anywhoo, I can't believe the scumbags who get elected to office. *sigh* I'm sure this asshole's comments will bring so much comfort to the family of Mr. Hunter and everyone who loved him.
For shame...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Joseph Stack was nothing more than a tax cheat and a murderer.
there's not much else I can say to convey my contempt for Stack and his sympathizers.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
that made it snow in Austin today.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
just another politician putting out his own view when asked a pointed question
"During his closing remarks, King veered into a complaint about high taxes, and said he could "empathize" with the man who flew a plane into an IRS building last week."
Sad. RIP, Vernon Hunter.
I was wondering about that, national convention, est. 10k people attended, how many different news and media orgs? And they can only find one anonymous staffer who claims they heard that? Nobody else has a problem with that?
ETA Here is a link to the full transcript of his speech. I didn't see anything like that in it.
Edited again, there is also a link to the video of the speech and since the "anonymous" person said it was in his closing remarks I watched the last third of it, nope wasn't there. But then again it doesn't surprise me since the "anonymous" person said they weren't recorded. But the end of the video shows him thanking the crowd and starting to walk away. So in essence I have to call BS on that.
No one giver a SHIT what you think. And your "link" is to King's website...very "unbiased". I'd trust Mediamatters more than your precious Four oxNews crap you seem to swallow. BS is what I call on your garbage postings.
believe me watch the video yourself. Does he say anything like what was posted? Is it obvious that he is done speaking?
Must be nice. To be a member of the party that can spout abject crap like that, and not have the media get medieval on your ass.
Imagine the suicide attacker had complained about health care and corporations, and . . . wait, never mind, he did. Let's see . . . . .
Imagine that a Democrat had expressed empathy for the African American communities that rioted after the Rodney King verdict? How might the modern press react? We all know: That Democrat would be eaten alive for saying rioting, looting, battering, etc. are good things.
And we all know it would mark the end for anyone who dared to note that people in the Middle East have legitimate grievances against the U.S. Hell, you wouldn't even have to say you sympathize with a suicide bomber. Just with people from the Middle East.
You know what, King, why don't you stop apologizing for this great nation, and just get in line and pay your taxes like a patriotic citizen?
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
This ISN'T about the IRS. It's about murder and terrorism if you will. You might as well say, "well I don't like abortion, so I can emphasize with those killing doctors or blowing up clinics."
You might as well say, "well I don't like abortion, so I can emphasize with those killing doctors or blowing up clinics."
They might as well, huh? Heh, I hear a lot of them saying just that. Bull O'Reilly? and other media clowns have no problem with that one.
:(
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Yes...my example was of something they already do, but you get the point, and you made a better say of it in your post above. The right can justify anything negative, from killing gays to torture.
get it and want to spout the "Well, he did work for the IRS..." or "But, but, but the IRS is illegal" garbage. Which I'm getting sick and tired of, if not irate.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
...has driven (at least) a thousand or so people to commit suicide (over the years)
The IRS is the biggest domestic terroristic gov't agency there is!
(ruined countless lives) taken tens of thousands of family homes...
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So you say you're just like the republicans
You have no sympathy for the working man
Who can no longer expect a reasonably safe workplace?
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dislike or even hate...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
People like milktoast and tea-baggers are nothing more than helpful naifs for their corporate masters, while pathetically pretending they're cutting edge politics, while their masters are laughing at them behind their backs.
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powers that be will throw them a bone for sanctifying the evil the powers do for them...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
*sigh*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
in the conversation for milquetoast to look like a fool. He/she does that all by him/herself.
unfortunately. :S
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Wanna play doctor?
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
We can give Steve King an empathyectomy!
I wish we could introduce steve king to Edgar Allen Poe.
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n/t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_6IODy0mU
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I was thinking about posting that. Great minds and all.
For a second there I thought you said, "Great meds..."
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mind is on meds.
BTW, did you notice how "bread" disappears or makes completely unrelated comments after being confronted?
...when I need patience.
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Some of us, however, are adults.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Wanna try adultery?
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
It's tragic that he decided to take other people with him.
I wish he woulda just drove off a bridge into the water.
(if your gonna commit suicide) "keep others out of it" ...is my motto!
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and not the crime itself?
because they drove another person over the edge.
(chalk up victim number 1,036) ...and another family house.
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Other than the one on your head. Stop acting like you are some caring bleeding heart, because you seem to have no problem with cold blooded murder as long as it's someone you don't like. I pity you.
The man is disgusting
Both the wannabe terrorist
And
milktoast.
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
They man burned down his own house.
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http://www.wlwt.com/news/22600154/detail.html
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THAT was a CRIME too. Might want to do a little research. But you are just a laser focused one-issue mind. Can't and won't see anything else. No intelligent discussion can be had with you. Bye byer.
Yeah, he essentially robbed a bank and a real estate office.
He also broke any number of family laws if by doing so he deprived any family members he may have had of a home.
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http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/02/23/pl...
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This guy bulldosed his...
Tue, 02/23/2010 - 17:48 — Milquetoast
One his beef is with a bank, not the IRS, and two, his beef is with his state government, and republicans in Congress, trying to block Obama's plans to help owners avoid foreclosure.
You know, the kind of programs our tax dollars also pay for?
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he drove himself over trying to cheat the US government.
than the life that was lost. In a nutshell.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Recent reports made it two deaths.
I think one was a Vietnam Vet.
milktoast's buddy did what the Viet Cong couldn't manage.
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He blew his stack?
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http://midwestrocklobster.com/100107/shitonas...
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Vernon Hunter was the Vietnam Vet.
The point is a man murdered and tried to murder others to push a political agenda. That's okay with you then? Because you too can just as easily be done away with by some nutjob with an agenda.
and spew on about what 'you' would do, what 'you' had thought', what 'you' had endured...not one iota of compassion for the poor soul who was simply at work doing his job & died.
What an opportunity-seeking shell of a person.
Dick, Dick, Dick, Dick.
Ooooooooops - his name is Steve, isn't it?
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I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn’t have a target for his airplane.
There's a dangerously dumb bit of self aggrandizing.
No, King, he would still have a had a target. It's worth mentioning that he railed against far more than the IRS, but it's largely beside the point. He was a mentally unstable person. He cracked under the understandable pressure, and went nuts.
You really want to help curb domestic terrorism? Tell your right wing colleagues in Congress and the media to tone down the rhetoric that foments it!
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Hey King, you fraking moron: if you hate government so much, then get the hell out of it - and let people who want to make it work; run it.
And if you hate taxes so much - you useless SOS, then get off the taxpayer dole! Go out and get one of those real privatized jobs you repukes are always going on about.
Aside from barking at the moon and chasing your tail in circles, I can't think of one useful thing you could do. But then, just having your ignorant ass leaving government would be enough for me.
Hell, if the morons in Iowa see fit to re-elect your psychotic ass, I would be willing to pay your salary if you worked from home, and didn't get anywhere near our government.
You could stand on the street corner yelling at people as they drive by. Seems to me, it is the least we can do for a district with enough dumb-asses to elect an imbecile like you.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
http://midwestrocklobster.com/100107/shitonas...
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"...I would be willing to pay your salary if you worked from home, and didn't get anywhere near our government."
Just be sure to pay him what he's worth.
Even the homeless could afford that.
...there are only two possible ways to explain these comments from King:
1) He was using some sort of extremely powerful recreational intoxicants that day
AND/OR
2) He’s flat-out insane.
Aside from the fact that King is essentially condoning politically-motivated violence (AKA terrorism), how in the name of all that’s sacred does King think that the federal government could have a prayer of supporting defense spending —- never mind much else —- without the IRS? According to the Tax Policy Center, individual income taxes and payroll taxes currently account for eighty percent of federal revenues —- and the individual income tax has been the largest single source of federal revenue since 1950. I know that many Republicans claim (emphasis intended!) to be in favor of smaller government and can only conclude that King would probably be in favor of eliminating most social programs as well as the IRS because the federal budget deficit would inevitably take a quantum leap if they were continued (since federal revenues would almost certainly shrink significantly). However, even though it’s quite true that nobody likes paying taxes, they are to some extent a necessary evil for the benefit of society at large. If the IRS were eliminated completely, it seems very likely that this country would also see the complete elimination of the middle class —- and that’s probably one of the best case scenarios! Without safety nets such as unemployment or food stamps, it would be extremely easy for job loss to send a middle-class family spiraling into poverty or possibly even homelessness. Without programs such as those which help maintain our infrastructure and the safety of the food supply, it’s quite possible that the country would fall into chaos within a few short years. Americans as a rule appear to have a surprisingly high level of difficulty coping with ambiguity, uncertainty, and nonconformity despite all our supposed love of independence and freedom of choice —- and in the sort of country King probably has in mind, instability and uncertainty would probably be virtually constant and inescapable for just about anyone who doesn't have a ton of discretionary income.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
(intended as reply to Shaggles' first comment)
Republicans have made a big point of calling Stack a "terrorist." Therefore, King is, by their definition, a terrorist sympathizer. It's certainly much more support of a "terrorist" than serving on a board with William Ayers.
Make no mistake about it! King is calling for terrorist attacks against US government offices and the murder of US government employees! If your Rep. isn't calling for his expulsion or at the very least censure then it's safe to say your Rep. also supports terrorism and murder. The again if your Rep. hasn't strongly called for war crimes trials for those responsible for war of aggression and torture I guess you already knew they supported terrorism and murder. Because that is what war crimes are.
Once again proving that no low is too low for these Repug lowlife.
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
I hope we hear from the gentleman's family who was killed. I've been audited and never did it cross my mind to kill someone. This is is just nuts.
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