Day: June 25, 2011

Tax Public Salaries 90 Percent

Tax Public Salaries 90 Percent — A Republican congressional contingent led by Eric Cantor of Virginia walked out of talks with Democrats about raising our $14.3 trillion federal debt limit. The walk-out, June 23, was due to Dem’s insistence on further raising taxes on producers.

OK, the Dems want a tax hike. How about this: adding a 90-percent bracket on all public salaries — federal, state and local — after $100,000. This would include, of course, with those in educational and cultural institutions receiving public subsides.

I’ll patriotically go for that one. Would fellow patriot Amy Gutmann — who receives a $1.36 million salary as president of the University of Pennsylvania which receives millions in subsides from the taxpayers of Pennsylvania — join me?

Hey, make it a 99-percent bracket.

Make it a 99.9999 percent bracket.

 

 

Tax Public Salaries 90 Percent

Philadelphia Sanctuary City

By Bob Guzzardi Philadelphia Sanctuary City


Philadelphia City Council, June 23, approved 17-0 a resolution to make Philadelphia a Sanctuary City.

Granted, the resolution was non-binding but it unambiguously declared a desire by the city’s leaders to end a three-year-old agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which gave that agency access to city arrest data.

Penn and Temple are headquartered in Philadelphia, and I am sure every one of the administrators and faculty at the schools — including millionairess presidents Amy Gutmann and Ann Weaver Hart — think this is a good idea.

How many people does it take to change a light bulb at Penn and Temple?  Just one is required if one has an iota of a speck of common sense. One suspects however, that  light bulbs are not getting changed at those schools as they are entirely populated by  Obama Democrats.

Of course, being a Republican is not a guarantee of having common sense.  Those who led the GOP in Pennsylvania are dim enough to vote millions to these people who despise them.

There is no reason to force The Forgotten Taxpayer to fund people at Penn and Temple who contemptuously and condescendingly dismiss and disdain common sense conservative and all Republicans, except Jon Huntsman, as stupid, racist, homophobic, misogynist bigots.

One has to wonder why the GOP leaders are stupid enough to fund those who despise them.

Some might think it unfair that I call all at Penn “Obama Democrats”. They point out how the  Daily Pennsylvanian recently ran a gushing front page press release praising former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman who is among those seeking the Republican Party nomination for the president.

Huntsman was, until April 30, Obama’s ambassador to China.

So, I concede the point. There are Obama Republicans at the school as well.