In the continuing hijinks of the Illinois Senate campaign, we now have Alan Keyes(R) firing a contreversial and probably large shot off. For the lazy people, he thinks that for at least a generation of slave descendants should be freed from income tax to give them an edge in the job market. Strangely enough he was previously quoted as saying reparations were "an insult to our slave ancestors." So I question, what all do you feel on on slave reperations in general? And was Mr. Keyes' sudden swing a real change of heart or just trying to swing votes in a almost certainly doomed campaign? Discuss!
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Knight Rider:
He knows he's gonna lose so he may as well lose big.
Is that like when a pilot knows he's going to crash and he can't avoid it, he'd rather auger in instead of trying to crashland safely because he wants to go out in a big blaze of glory?
Next thing you know, he'll want them to be able to vote and serve in combat positions in the military.
It's not something people hear about.
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Sean had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Next thing you know, he'll want them to be able to vote and serve in combat positions in the military.
Why not? The military needs people to test vaccines and serums on.
The argument that it would make a citizen that was recieving this exemption more likely to be hired is also laughable. The business does not pay income tax for what it pays its workers. The invididual is responsible for that.
In the end it is just a stupid ploy trying to appeal to a demographics desire to get something for nothing and self pity.
The guy is seriously unbalanced.
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Zair had this to say about Duck Tales:
This makes slightly more sense than when Keyes claimed 9/11 was caused by God because of his displeasure of abortion.The guy is seriously unbalanced.
Yeah. Seriously. Everyone knows 9/11 happened because Bush wanted to invade Iraq.
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We were all impressed when Snoota wrote:
Yeah. Seriously. Everyone knows 9/11 happened because Bush wanted to invade Iraq.
That's at least more feasible than God being miffed about abortion
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The ancestors of slaves would be precluded from paying federal taxes for a generation or two.
I think the author of this article had quite a few mistakes using language.
You cant very well preclude dead people from paying taxes when they were never required to do so anyway.
And if this absurd motion passed, there would be no taxes for slave-descendants. Not this generation, nor the next, nor any generation afterward. You think people would just accept paying taxes again? And if they did, can you imagine the flood of people who would be losing homes, assets, and so on? People would go bankrupt overnight because taxes were never figured into their lifestyle.
Duh.
