You should take the money you saved from the tax deduction and send it to Richmond and help the poor and build roads for us working slobs here in NoVA. Evidently you are a fan of welfare for the rich, eh?

Edmundburkenator,

I am a 51 year old, college educated environmental consultant with over 25 years experience. That includes 10+ years as a regulator in the People’s Republic of Maryland. So when I make comments about how wasteful and inefficient the government is, I speak as a witness.

I never stated that any one of you mentioned the Bible. However, I have noticed that the left side of the spectrum seems to use the Bible or a moral argument to justify taxation to feed the poor. However, they sure get ticked off when people on the other side use the Bible as support for legislating certain issues.

I am no Bible-thumper but I sure do see the hypocrisy of the lefties.

By the way, I question everyone, especially people with whom I have no trust, like politicians and amateur pundits.

I just got back from a refreshing trip to Florida that you helped subsidize as part of a business tax deduction. Thank you very much.

I’m 47, own my own business which is a profitable consulting practice. I hold a couple of degrees and I (you should like this) own a ‘71 Triumph Bonneville 650. I’m also an adjunct professor (not in politics though), and own two homes.

I can’t find where any one of the three of us mentioned a Bible verse, but I count several instances where you misrepresent our positions or create straw men.

I disagree with a few folks around here from time to time, but the arguments are usually good natured and based on facts.

Yours are not.

With that said, I’m going to take my own advice and not engage you again. I spend too much time talking to true believers.

I hope for the best for you Over Taxed and I sincerely wish that you start asking more questions of those in whom you place so much trust.

Based on the tone of your messages, I have a few questions for you.

1. How old are you?
2. What is your occupation or are you still in college?

I do not know too many people who are working in the real world and supporting a family to have such leftie ideals.

You guys definitely sound like college students, fans of MoveOn and Daily Kos, and who have been drinking the Kool Aid provided by their professors.

You guys can demonstrate all the empathy for your fellow man you want – just use your own dollars.

I love how the libs tell “right wing nuts” not to mix politics and religion when it comes to things like abortion, gay marriage, etc. but then turn around and quote the Bible to lecture the rest of us as to why we need to pay more taxes in an unreasonable attempt to cure every social ill.

I donate money to various charities and I do it of my own free will.

If you gentlemen (I am giving you the benefit of the doubt by referring to you as gentlemen) want details about the waste in government, try reading a book. I would also suggest that you watch the normal dribble on “60 Minutes” every Sunday but of course according to the lefties at CBS, the only government waste is in the Pentagon.

If you are satisfied with the way Social Security is handled by our government and have no problems continuing to send more and more money to Washington, then hope for our country is truly lost.

To quote a famous American, Americans are not undertaxed, its just that government spends too much.

You guys can demonstrate all the empathy for your fellow man you want – just use your own dollars.

I love how the libs tell “right wing nuts” not to mix politics and religion when it comes to things like abortion, gay marriage, etc. but then turn around and quote the Bible to lecture the rest of us as to why we need to pay more taxes in an unreasonable attempt to cure every social ill.

I donate money to various charities and I do it of my own free will.

If you gentlemen (I am giving you the benefit of the doubt by referring to you as gentlemen) want details about the waste in government, try reading a book. I would also suggest that you watch the normal dribble on “60 Minutes” every Sunday but of course according to the lefties at CBS, the only government waste is in the Pentagon.

If you are satisfied with the way Social Security is handled by our government and have not problems continuing to send more and more money to Washington, then hope for our country is truly lost.

To quote a famous American, Americans are not undertaxed, its just that government spends too much.

And so did you.

The world is flat and were all just so stupid for not agreeing with him.

Liberals can often be criticized as being insufficiently practical and too prone to want to change behavior. But right-wing polemics like OTR’s are grounded not only in deep bitterness rivaling old Scrooge but in utter inability to imagine being in the shoes of other folk less fortunate but no less worthy under our Constitution. With that myopia, and without human capacity for empathy, debate is hopeless.

You’ve got an affliction common among right wing nuts – called selfish-itis and I’m going to write you a prescription. It is for one dose of working in a ’soup kitchen’ for the indigent. It should make you feel better and thankful that you live in the land of milk and honey where the taxes are low compared to the rest of humankind.

Come back when you’ve completed your medicine. Good luck–and I hope you start to feel better once you begin to think of others’ well being as much as you do of your own.

It should come as no surprise that you support John McCain.

Not everyone feels that we need all of the social services that government provides. Your dim-witted comment that we have to pay for living in this country is way off base. The reason why government has become so expensive is that it continues to find more and more ways to become the nanny state. Besides, I am one of those people in this country who went to college (paid for it myself by the way), worked my butt off, and I am currently earning good money. I have worked for the government and I see how it operates and how money is wasted. I do not appreciate it when elitists like you and your buddy Edmundburkenator think you know better than anyone else and start getting emotional with my tax dollars.

Edmundburkenator,

You reinforced my point. Wasteful spending by either party is a threat. That’s why I have a problem with the NVTA. The Republicans and the Democrats in Richmond refused to look at the way transportation dollars are distributed and chose the easy way – create an unconstitutional authority and nail us with multiple taxes, user fees, registration fees, etc.

Furthermore, using your logic, we should send more money to Richmond and DC so either party can come up with creative ways to waste our money?

If you are really concerned about future generations, you should also be concerned about the global warming boondoggle that will suck money from all Americans based on hysteria spread by Al Gore, the UN, and other extremists.

Your rant sounds like the same crap that I hear from the mental midgets on Airhead America and the various “Progressives” that show up in DC for the anti-war rallies. Maybe you should do like you preach and do some thinking for yourself. Maybe you can start by reading newspapers other than the Washington Post and the New York Times and get the other side of the story.

By the way, I do listen to the guys you named as well as Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs.