exposing @Stopbeck's economic illiteracy

@stopbeck recently tweeted  

Some folks keep saying that raising taxes doesn't increase revenue. Look, this isn't political, it's math. M'kay?


We conservatives tire of his liberal simplistic thinking on economic issues.   We are tired of Democrats like him saying that the poor are the "working class"  when in many cases the rich are some of the hardest working people in our society.    Here is a little bit of Thomas Sowell common sense to show you just how stupid @stopbeck is.

Tax rates are meant to make an ideological statement and promote class-warfare politics, not just bring in revenue.

There has been much indignation on the left over the recent news that General Electric paid no taxes, despite its large amounts of profit. But another way of looking at this is that high tax rates on paper do not mean high tax revenues for the government.

The liberal answer to budget deficits is almost always to raise tax rates on "the rich," in order to bring in more revenue. The fact that higher tax rates have often brought in less revenue than before is simply ignored.

Our corporate tax rates are higher than in many other countries. That may have something to do with the fact that many American corporations (including General Electric) expand their operations in many other countries, providing jobs-- and tax revenues-- in those other countries.

But high-tax ideologues don't see it that way. They would be horrified at the idea that we ought to lower our corporate tax rates, just so that more American businesses would do more of their business at home, providing more Americans with much-needed jobs.

To ideologues, that is just a cop-out from the class-warfare battle. It is far more important to them to score their political points against "the rich" or "Wall Street" than that a few million more Americans out of work would be able to find jobs.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against "the rich" and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up unemployed.

It so happens that many-- if not most-- of those called "the rich" are not rich and many, if not most, of those called "the poor" are not poor. They are people who happen to be in a particular part of the income stream as of a given moment in their lives when statistics are collected.

Internal Revenue Service data show that the income of people who were in the lowest income tax bracket in 1996 rose by 91 percent by 2005. But people in the "top one percent" had their incomes drop by 26 percent in those same years.

There is nothing complicated about this. Most people simply start at the bottom when they are young and their pay rises as they get more experience. Most people in the top one percent are there for only a single year when they happen to have a spike in income. They too are not an enduring class.

The time is long overdue to start thinking about taxes as sources of revenue, not as ways of making political statements.

 http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/04/13/taxes_and_politics/page/full/

Glenn Beck's Alaska trip

Some of what I say here is speculation but that is what @stopbeck is engaged in so fair is fair isn't it?  There is one thing that is absolute fact and that is Glenn Beck did not announce his event in Alaska until Sep 1.   @stopbeck claims Glenn Beck has been talking about this for weeks and that is a bald faced lie.  I listen to Glenn Beck more than he does and I know for a fact he did not say anything on his show about it until last week.   In fact here is the actual announcement http://www.therightscoop.com/glenn-beck-hints-that-hes-cooking-something-up-with-sarah-palin   It was very low key and Glenn did not promote it very much at all.  I think Glenn Beck chose Sep 11 not because it was the anniversary of 911 but it was a convenient date in regard to his schedule.   If he were to do it on Sep 4th which was stated as the original plan it would have required a very long plane trip at the beginning of his vacation.  I think he wanted to get settled in and have fun with his family in Idaho and then at the end go up to Alaska for this event.  Common sense would have dictated that he do it on 9-12 which is the name of his organization but since he as a Mormon observes the sabbath he decided to do it on a Saturday which is Coincidentally the 9th anniversary of 911.  Compare what I say here to @stopbeck's  and see what you think makes more sense.  http://stopbeck.com/2010/09/10/glenn-beck-fires-back-at-critics-of-his-paid-911-event/

Stopbeck lying about Glenn Beck's phone

Stopbeck constantly tweets that Glenn Beck's red phone is not hooked up and the White House doesn't have the phone number.   He always says his source is the Wall Street Journal.  Watch the 2:13 mark of this video where Glenn Beck debunks this falsehood.

glenn beck and the bailout

Today @stopbeck tweeted
StopBeck This may come as a surprise: but @glennbeck was for the bailout, before he was against it: http://bit.ly/cGh1DR

While this may be true Stopbeck implies that Glenn Beck was for the bailout for a long time.  The truth is Glenn Beck was only for Tarp a total of 2 days.  He was against it when tarp came up for a vote Here is the real story from Glenn Beck himself.   http://vodpod.com/watch/2623606-glenn-beck-admits-to-supporting-tarp

Stopbeck blames Glenn Beck for violence.

1n, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison  started publishing his antislavery newspaper The Liberator in Boston. Garrison's clear and unabashed abolitionist views expressed in his press were not well received, even in the North. Eight months later, on August 21, Nat Turner led a group of slaves on a bloody rampage through Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and his band eventually killed at least 55 white men, women, and children before they were stopped by the Virginia militia. Turner initially escaped capture by hiding out, but he was caught on October 30, tired and then hanged on November 11. Many Southerners blamed Garrison and his newspaper for bringing abolitionist views to their slaves' knowledge and thus fomenting insurrection. Of course most slaves couldn't read and the circulation of The Liberator was not of much significance this early in its career, but nonetheless, such views were not to be tolerated in the slave states.

The reason I bring this little story up is because @stopbeck seems to want to blame Glenn Beck for some violence in our modern times.  He tweeted today:
Disturbing. From @mmfa: "The CA cop shooter and @glennbeck: Here's what we know" http://bit.ly/dmDerR

Now if @stopbeck is going to blame Glenn Beck for inciting this guy in California  surely he is prepared to blame American hero William Lloyd Garisson for the murderous acts of Nat Turner.

Stopbeck lies about Glenn Beck being racist

Stopbeck never stops trying to spread misleading information. Today he tweeted:

ICYMI: Glenn Beck says that Obama's "reaction" to typical white people has been "bred into him" http://bit.ly/c06Wte

This link is purposely misleading because it cut out the fact that Glenn Beck and Pat Gray are commenting on this Racist comment Obama said last year.




AS you can see Glenn Beck was only commenting on the fact that Barack Obama had said that his white grandmother had been "bred" a certain way and then went on in a facetious way to illustrate that point.   I am certain that Stopbeck already knew this since he claims to listen to all of Glenn Beck's shows. Crooks and liars says that Glenn Beck is viciously smearing Obama's parents yet we know they were Communists from Barack Obama's own book.  

Stopbeck does not recognize black patriots. Lies about purple heart.

I watched Glenn Beck's show last night about the black founders of our country.  It was an inspiring look at the contributions of African Americans that history has forgotten.  http://www.watchglennbeck.com/  
At one point Glenn Beck pointed to a picture of prince whipple a black man who crossed the Delaware with George Washington.   Stopbeck must have been angry at this because he tweeted.

Note to cretinous fraud @glennbeck: Don't let the name fool you. Prince Whipple was a slave. SIIIIIIGH.

Wow. Glenn Beck opens show by pointing to slave, characterizes him as "helping row the boat." Uhhh, not by choice fool!

These are Stopbeck's only two comments regarding the astounding feats we heard about in this show about the black founders.      Among the accomplishments mentioned was the first black speaker of the house in the 1870's.  I would like to ask Stopbeck if he really thinks that patriot african americans where only fighting because they were FORCED or whether they also fought out of patriotism and valor?  If Stopbeck is going to dismiss the accomplishments of those who were forced into war then maybe he ought to dismiss all those who were drafted to fight for America in Various wars.     Is he going to say they only fought because they were forced to?  Stopbeck also lied a couple of day earlier when he tweeted.

Bizarre: @glennbeck attacks purple heart recipients, suggests that receiving it lacks integrity and honor. Uhhhh....

Glenn Beck did nothing of the sort.  He just said that a person gets a purple heart for being wounded but George Washington awarded badges of merit for valor.    The next day Glenn Beck said he proudly displays two purple hearts given to him by servicemen in his office at home.  Here is the transcript of what Stopbeck says is disparaging of purple heart recipients. 

GLENN: We have our first announcement on 8/28, Restoring Honor. I want to tell you the beginnings now of what I have planned in August and you need to start making plans today to attend. In 1780 George Washington developed a badge of merit. It is what our Purple Heart is modeled after. He only awarded, for the records that we have found, he only awarded three of these damages of merit. At the time the world only gave medals and badges and everything else to officers, but he was looking to create in his words an honorable and Christian army. He was looking to build people of integrity, people who understood merit and honor. He said the road to glory in a free country is open to all. It was the first time that anybody had ever done that, looking at the farmer and saying you don't have to be an officer and do something honorable. It was not about the Purple Heart, surprisingly. The Purple Heart was modeled after the badge of merit after they were found in 1933. And that's when we started awarding purple hearts. But it was not for honor. It was just for being wounded. That's not what the badge of merit was under George Washington. He used to keep the names in a book called the book of merit. He talked about it in his writings in 1782. The book has never been found. But the badges have been. We're going to restore honor by restoring the road to glory that in a free country is open to all. We are going to begin awarding badges of merit. We're designing them now and they are — I haven't decided if we're going to make them into actual medals that you would pin on a chest or wear like the medal of honor or if it's just a badge, exactly the way George Washington intended.