I have long opposed wealth taxes based on both constitutional and practical grounds. When Elizabeth Warren pushed her own wealth tax, I noted that the high starting income or wealth levels would likely be lowered with time if Congress were ever allowed to cross this constitutional Rubicon. The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is now demanding an amendment to the state constitution to tax the “wealth of the richest 1%” to pay for free public college. Previously, the state passed a constitutional amendment to place a 4 % tax on income above $1 million. This would add a new wealth tax to that earlier “Fair Share Amendment.”
In a press release, the teachers union president Max Page declared: “if we are serious about social and economic justice and nurturing a culturally rich and welcoming state of involved citizens, we will provide all residents with the best vehicle for a prosperous future – public education.”
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has made a similar proposal that, in addition to taxing corporations, he will “tax the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers—those earning above $1 million annually—a flat 2% tax.” Not surprisingly, Warren recently declared Mamdani the future of the Democratic Party.
Massachusetts is already in the top ten highest tax jurisdictions. These tax increases are why many of us have opposed the state and local (SALT) tax deduction. As high-tax states continue to increase their rates, they expect residents in low tax states to subsidize them.
My forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, discusses the wealth tax controversy and how these moves are likely to increase in the coming years.
I have no principled objection to Congress’s using its constitutional power to levy taxes for the general welfare, so I don’t see any parallel to Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon.
I don’t know why I am wasting my time by typing this. These words are not going to get through
any of your thick skulls.
A wealth tax is necessary to compensate for redistributive change schemes that force progressive prices.
Immigration reform is necessary to compensate for selective-child policy. #HateLovesAbortion
Pedophilia is a queer sexual orientation legal under the law. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #LoveWins
No more salt
Can’t believe these ignorant people are teaching our children.
“Can’t believe these ignorant people are teaching our children.”
Massachusetts has the best education system in the country. They are ranked at the very top.
Low tax Oklahoma ranks dead last and they think Bibles and 10 commandments are going to help them improve.
Ignorant, not stupid. They follow progressive principles under the Pro-Choice religion prosecuted with liberal license. Thus the 40 trillion dollar debt, progressive prices forced by shifted responsibility, billions aborted in chambers, clinics under selective-child policy, DEIsm (e.g. racism, sexism), exclusion under political congruence (“=”), ethnic Springs, queer sexual orientations (e.g. pedophilia), Dreams of Herr Mengele, misogyny, etc.
There is a correlation of the education rankings to the demographic makeup of the states. Massachusetts has a higher percentage of white and Asian students who typically perform better on standardized tests. Massachusetts also has a higher average family income which benefits student performance as well.
So one state preys on a higher power to support their endeavors and the other is religious?
“Massachusetts has the best education system in the country.”
Appears that is about to change. It happens, ask Baltimore County (not city). Looks like ole MA schools has the commie flu – seems to be going around in those parts, that will nosedive not just education, but everything else there. Stupid liberals. Stupid stupid liberals. when
Talented, ambitious, and rational people know the value of freedom.
Communist parasites know only jealousy, greed, and an overwhelming and destructive desire for other people’s money.
The Bible teaches people not to covet, bear false witness, and steal, which is precisely what communists do.
The American Founders intended freedom and security from coveters, liars, and thieves.
The American Founders intended a restricted vote to preclude these sins and crimes, to ensure the dominion of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and to foster and promote freedom, free enterprise, free markets, free industries, and individual and national success and prosperity.
Success and prosperity can never happen with communist redistribution and dictatorship; therefore, communist redistribution and dictatorship can never happen.
The vote must be severely restricted, and the Constitution must prevail no matter the vote.
“The Bible teaches people not to covet, bear false witness, and steal, which is precisely what communists do.”
Oklahoma is mandating Bibles in classrooms. They are currently dead last in education rankings.
And your point is?
What anonymous old George conveniently forgets is that the founders intended and established a constitutional amendment process. We should be celebrating the expansion of freedom contained in the 13th amendment, the expansion civil rights contained in the 14th amendment, and the expansion of voting rights contained in amendments 15,19, and 26. Concerned Citizen
What the Founders did not deny or prohibit was secession; therein lay the problem, “Crazy Abe’s” woefully unconstitutional dictatorship, celebrated by Karl Marx, and the corollary “Reconstruction Amendments” that favor a particular foreign subset that must have been compassionately repatriated per existing immigration law, which would have resolved the entire problem forthwith. Ah, if only Old “Crazy Abe” had simply obeyed the law.
Even if people don’t believe the Ten Commandments were etched in stone by fire in the age of Moses, they were written by literate people a long time ago who recognized that people resented their neighbor for wealth or a pretty wife, murdered, and made false accusations. The Ten Commandments are included in the Jewish and Muslim scriptures so do not establish a religion. Community organizers bring together people who resent and envy other people.
Republicans in Massachusetts should propose a constitutional amendment that would require public school teachers to send their own children to public schools – or be fired. It could be called “the honesty in education” law.
It reminds me a bit of Matt Damon. Even though his mom is (or was, she probably had retired for awhile) a public school teacher and him being a huge advocate for the public school system. He doesn’t send his children to a public school but rather a private one. And that to me reeks hypocrisy.
They already do. MA public schools are ranked at the very top. NY is ranked 2nd.
2 years ago the people of Massachusetts voted for a referendum question that allowed the state to put A 4 percent tax on anyone who made more than a million dollars in one year. The first people to react to this law were the pro athletes in Boston. From what I heard they went to the team owners and said “you’re picking up the 4 percent, right “! That money was supposed to go for education and the infrastructure. I heard just last week that it was put into the general fund where most of the tax revenue goes.
Shabbat shalom everyone 😊
Have a peaceful sabbath
Virginia is being californicated. I’m moving to Wyoming.
Oh, no! Not the Beatles too!
“She was just seventeen, uh, you know what I mean.”
Yeah, anon, he was going to her family supper on Sunday.
This one is better. And a whole lot funnier too. 🙃
“It’s the [Epstein], stupid!”
– James Carville
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Apparently, the Beatles liked seventeen-year-olds as much as Epstein’s clients.
It’s too bad Professor Turley is too incompetent to weigh in on the handling of the Epstein case.
“It’s too bad Professor Turley is too incompetent to weigh in on the handling of the Epstein case.”
Why would he want to help put Democrats in prison?
All the co-conspirators regardless of politics should be revealed and tried in a court of law.
“All the co-conspirators regardless of politics should be revealed and tried in a court of law.”
I’m just pointing out that since pedophiles are all Democrats, and all of Epstein’s buddies were Democrats, it stands to reason that anyone taken down by whatever evidence you think exists will of course be a Democrat.
No court in its right mind is going to reveal the names of all the luminaries who would be presumed/found guilty, not by evidence but by implication.
Trump was a big time democrat when Epstein was buddies with him. Are you saying Trump is a pedophile too?
Was that this millenium? No. Nice try.
No matter how much cover you want to give pedophiles the story is too big to put back in the box.
“No matter how much cover you want to give pedophiles the story is too big to put back in the box.”
We welcome the prosecution of Democrat pedophiles (repetition, I know). You do realize that all of Epstein’s friends were Democrats, right?
This story is TOO BIG TO TELL!
Now that MAGA has become pro-pedophile, if Trump had sex with an underage girl that’s cool with them. Notice, none of them on this site disavow pedophilia and are calling for full release of all the documents and video.
“Now that MAGA has become pro-pedophile, if Trump had sex with an underage girl that’s cool with them. Notice, none of them on this site disavow pedophilia and are calling for full release of all the documents and video.”
You’re a real piece of garbage. Absolutely false. I hope that you get to join your other Democrat pedophile (redundant, I know) buddies in the slammer.
Trump was a democrat when Epstein was still free.
“Trump was a democrat when Epstein was still free.”
When was that, the freaking 80s? Nice try.
I would rather him do an article on Bill Barr and Armstrong Williams explaining their collusion to get Trump. Let’s see which is more important.
*. Mr. Epstein exploited women. Gloria Allred is representing an exploited woman. She responded to an ad seeking Victoria’s Secret models. The interview was to be conducted in a hotel room. Apparently Mr. Epstein was a model seeker?
She reported the incident to the police. Do I believe a woman could be stupid enough to believe such a scenario? Yes, I do.
Did anyone contact Victoria’s Secret about Mr. Epstein? No doubt police are jaded by such stories told by pros and thought the story was unbelievable. It’s believable. IMO
Women are exploited 24/7/365. Your girl of the moment Sidney Titler is a form of such. 400 million increase in sales. Check with surgeons for uptick in augmentation. Uptick in crime of any kind as testosterone increases.
Why the thongs in women’s sports? So people will watch it. Greater interest is a moral interest? Perhaps the thong increases sports agility or better diving?
Epstein is a product.
“So, the lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”
– Richard A. Rowland, 1926
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One man, one vote “Democracy” IS the “dictatorship of the proletariat” of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
The proletariat are the “hired help” who are running Massachusetts, nay, America.
The American Founders established a severely restricted-vote republic, which is the form rational democracy has taken since its inception in Greece and perpetuation in Rome and America.
Capable and qualified leadership under the Constitution and Bill of Rights is imperative.
No enterprise on the planet is run by a vote of its impoverished and incompetent workforce.
The insanity that is America must stop.
Freedom must prevail.
Find me a NE lawyer who is willing to sue my eldest sibling for the $billions due me he stole, and the 4 times he had me jailed to cover his theft and the 9 carjackings done to me.
Try the Irish band U2, perhaps they can represent your crazy self with their pro Bono?
Say goodnight Dick
*. College fees can be tax deductions or loans with interest tax deductions etc. The wealthy are double the intelligence of the lower half. The wealthy simply haven’t a responsibility to pay for your existence. They can provide jobs for the lower half or not since it’s global. If aoc had a brain she’d realize tariffs are taxing the rich or providing jobs.
The bottom line is intelligent people have zero interest in poor people with demands for weed and the other corrupt interests such as crime. They absolutely don’t care if you want socialism as long as it isn’t their money. You don’t know who the wealthy are except the corrupt rich.
Do whatever you want and Maxwell was moved to minimum security? For what? To be kidnapped and murdered? Does it matter when your icons sell 400 million dollars by Sidney Titler?
Obviously teacher’s unions are low class and circuit judges follow orders from whomever the current DOJ is.
Melt down , PT.
*. The enemy is identified. Never forget.
Have you ever seen a poor person hire someone?
*. Yes, I have.
This is scary, correct me where I am wrong.
While Congress is under rigid Article 1 restraints, States are not restricted, or minimally restricted (below), in their ability to tax.
The people in states have the power to vote for rational government or move and relocate to another state.
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In summary, while states have broad taxing authority, they must operate within the constraints of the U.S. Constitution, which protects against discrimination, undue burdens on interstate commerce, and due process violations. State constitutions may also impose additional limits.
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The Founders severely restricted the vote for good reason; certainly they considered voter restrictions to be imperative.
Turnout in 1789 was 11.6%, and, generally by state, voter qualifications were male, European, 21, with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
Voters must have been of sound mind, the age of emotional maturity, vested, and propertied.
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Research findings on age and emotional development – While emotional maturity isn’t tied to a specific age, some studies offer general observations: Certain cognitive abilities reach adult levels by age 16, but emotional maturity may not be fully attained until after 22.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
The beautiful allegory and its panacea for more socialist reforms and lack of funds therefore by the left are astonishing; their proposals are always someone else’s problem. Tax the rich is the suppose remedy with a nebulous definition of One Million. So, I’m to understand a million-dollar salary isn’t currently taxed more than a lower bracket, ha, the state has a flat tax of 5% with an additional 4% on income over One Million. I didn’t bother to go any further in lower brackets and what the poorest are taxed or receive in benefits. Just doing a back of envelope look at Massachusetts income as posted by the United States Census 21% of the population makes over $200,000 annually and the median income is just under a $100K and a mean income a little under
$140K. Above I called the definition of rich nebulous, to demonstrate, taxes on Social Security advantage earners above $176,100 to not have to pay a 6.2% tax, so in reality those making $176,101 in my estimation they could be rich. I highlight these only to make a point, progressive taxation leads to hands out from those with less, and envy and social transgressions against fellow citizen.
One additional demo of what is rich: would an earner in Massachusetts in the 39% quintile making less than $50K not think those in top tier making $200K as rich.
https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2023.S1901?q=Massachusetts+median+income&g=040XX01US25
To finish, taxation at all levels of government from the municipal to federal, be it asset or personal, should be equal neither progress nor recessive.
George W
Max Page declared: “if we are serious about social and economic justice and nurturing a culturally rich and welcoming state of involved citizens, we will provide all residents with the best vehicle for a prosperous future – public education.”
This noble goal is so important that the prosperous citizens of MA should immediately agree to this sacrifice, PROVIDED the teachers union agrees, in the spirit of shared sacrifice “for the children”, to work for the Federal Minimum Wage of $7.25 per hour.
/sarc off
“Minimum Wage”
Only the owner of private property has the power to set wages. Private property is not public property. Government has the power to set wages related to public property. “Comparable pay” is arbitrary and has no valid rationale or basis in case or fact. Worker supply and demand determines wages.
Ahhhh the cancerous growth of unchecked government has metastasized again in Democratic loveland Taxachussets. Big surprise
The premise that we need to make college grades 13-17 can be sensible only to those whose job opportunities would be subsidized.
So the answer is to pour more money on a broken system…..guess it is bound to eventual work
Nancy Pelosi needs to have her gender affirmed.