Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Bad Ideas on the Dead Tree

We still have a subscription to the dead tree version of the Star Tribune and today's editions feature two really bad ideas as headlines, to wit:

Should Dayton unionize daycare?

and

Obama jobs bill plan: Tax the rich

Both deserve comment, but given my time constraints this morning, we'll concentrate on the latter one. Three quick thoughts:
  • First, the general notion that Obama wants to tax the rich hardly merits as news any more.
  • The specific proposal in question is this: "The White House said Congress should pay for the jobs plan by imposing new limits on itemized deductions for individuals who earn more than $200,000 a year and families earning more than $250,000." The sound you hear is the non-profit sector groaning. Life in a liberal arts college's development office would get a whole lot tougher if this passes. The non-profit sector tends to be supportive of Democrats, but often relies on the largesse of evil money-making Republicans for its survival. Everyone from my alma mater through Susan G. Komen gets thrown under the (campaign) bus.
  • Of course, there's no way in hell this will pass. And it's further evidence that Obama and his policy shop remain fresh out of ideas.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bang the drums of class warfare because it's the only chance Obama has of winning the election.

Night Writer said...

He can bang the drum, but it doesn't mean we will dance to it.

Gino said...

he expects it to fail, and hopes it will so that he can use it to run against the GOP, who failed to help him fix the economy.

like you said: out of ideas... and clues.

Anonymous said...

Gino is right. It's all about the politics. Republicans, unfortunately, haven't a clue as to how to play that game.

J. Ewing

Brad Carlson said...

he expects it to fail, and hopes it will so that he can use it to run against the GOP, who failed to help him fix the economy.

EXACTLY!!

W.B. Picklesworth said...

If this is just politics (and it certainly is), couldn't he have come up with something better than this? It will fool those people who make up the 40% who still support him, but It's so transparently pathetic that it just reinforces his incompetence with the non-lobotomy community.

Gramps Toolshed said...

I love how in almost every report or story I see on Obama, there is always the word "fail" or "failure". People are really waking up to how much his policies are messing up the country!

Gino said...

hey gramps, i tried to comment on yer blog a few days ago. its not taking comments i guess...

Bike Bubba said...

Yes, because it's such a great idea to put more tax money into Solyndra to create jobs. Except for the fact that it went Chapter 7.

Night Writer said...

Lawyers need work, too, Bubba.