Talk Radio About to be Neutered

In the distance, one can hear the faint drumbeat of the upcoming revival of the "Fairness Doctrine". It will be hailed by First Amendment haters as "leveling the playing field" and "reviving the hate filled airwaves", but it is quite more dystopian and utopian.

Talk radio has in the past couple of years grown exponentially. For a while, there was even a progressive station, Air America, and throughout that time, no one mentioned equal time amendments. It's failure was brought on for reasons which in hindsight appears obvious. People just don't want to listen to Bush hate and progressive falsehoods on their way to work.

Well, as the old saying doesn't go, "If you can't beat 'em, socialize them."

In what way is allowing the market to function properly unfair? The same way it's unfair that the length of innings in baseball is based on performance, not time. In what way is free speech aided by government intrusion? How can alternate views be forced onto private broadcasts and call it fair? Those pushing for the change, progressives, attempt to evade media constantly, as evidenced by the Democratic Parties refusal to participate in a debate on Fox News and their persistent refusal to be seen and heard on any media that takes calls.

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Michael Savage would love to bring on as many Democratic senators as would join them. That won't happen. Even though it would be a perfect chance to spout Democratic views, they know their arguments can't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. Instead, they will just make the medium unmarketable using their unmarketable progressive broadcasters.

My argument on this hinges on the fact that, unlike the ignorant masses, I realize that there are more than two sides to every issue. Who will be the arbiter of all views? Which expert will decide if something is on the left or the right? Does business news count as political speech, and if so, will there be a communist to chime in from time to time? Will there be Muslim prayer brakes five times a day during the sermons on Sunday?

I can see it now, Howard and Oprah in the Morning; or perhaps the The Falwell-Khomeini Drive Time Happy Hour. Should be interesting.

Live Free or Die,

Marc

Goverment Mandates Compassion, Calls Defense and Infrastructure Discretionary!

How many times have you been told that "our imperial hegemonic President tyrannically wastes more than a third of the nation's tax money on the unjust, overreaching Iraq War"?






This is a great example of how statistics and micro-managed diction can throw off an entire national mindset and reframe spending arguments based on political fiction.


First, lets examine the Federal Revenue breakdown. The chart to the right breaks it down visually, but it divides it on their terms. Now examine the real difference in these not so different pie slices. Who pays Individual Income Tax? WORKERS. Who pays Payroll Tax? WORKERS and the employers who give them jobs. The employers also pay Corporate Income Taxes.


Employer and Corporate Taxes are really only shadow taxes on other taxpayers, in the way that any money that they pay to the federales, they cannot pay to employees and stockholders. They could also pass it on to the customer, because they undoubtedly haven't paid their share yet.


The government would have us believe that corporations have feelings just like you and me. That they can pay taxes, and that they can feel the "fair share" being taken from them, by force if necessary. In addition, every corporation's personality fits the evil robber baron archetype especially in the minds of progressives*.


Hopefully, I've shed some new understanding on the real gouging that you take every year. Because of the fact that only people make money, I'm going to reiterate a statistic that I produced a few days ago. I'll admit I'm adding .02 trillion to the budget and subtracting a few illegal immigrants, but its about $3,000,000,000,000 per year spread across 300,000,000 people. So, give or take, its about $10,000 a year per person.

Now, the spending side...

The chart to the left is an accurate breakdown of

the way that your hard-earned dollars are spread around the country.


I won't be spending much time on the chart because it would be boring. So, were going to split it a little different using another heuristic: discretionary and mandatory spending.


Mandatory spending accounts for approximately %67 of the yearly spending. So, what's mandated? Defense? Nope. FBI? Nope. Coast Guard? Highways? Foreign Aid? NO, NO, NO!




So, what is it spent on? Entitlements.




These include entitlements, such as Social Security, Medicare, Veterans' Benefits, and Welfare.

I certainly consider infrastructure and national security to be somewhat mandatory, but call me stupid.


So, next time you want to go home early and be with your family, or when you cut the big check in April, remember that $0.23 cents of each of those dollars goes to people who don't work(Unemployment, Welfare, and Medicaid add to %23). Also remember that $0.21 cents of each dollar will be paid into a well-intentioned system on the verge of collapse: Social Security.

When I think of mandatory and discretionary monies of my own, any money I give to bums is certainly not in my mandatory column. Guarding my assets is not in my discretionary column, so whats up?





SEMANTIC TRICKS AND DICTION!





So, watch your wallet, and tell people who think your not compassionate, that "The government doles out my compassionary funds for me. Don't you pay taxes?" That Simple.





Live Free or Die,


Marc





*I use the term progressive instead of liberal, because I still view liberalism by its classical meaning. The liberals of today hardly promote liberty; if anything they should call themselves "redistributionists".