Unbelievable, Speaker Boehner is still not telling the truth. He claims a tax rate increase with hurt small business job creation. This is not true. What is wrong with him? The tax increase on those who earn over $250,000 will not hurt 97% of small business. All you or I have to do to refute his tired old argument is go to the internet and type in small ‘definition of business’. If it is so easy, how is it that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States cannot do that? The answer is he and millions of other Americans can and he did; therefore, he knows the truth. We all know the truth. That being the case, he is deliberately lying. It is no longer a matter of politics but a matter of morality. This blog is an attempt to explain why.
Both Democrats and Republicans are greedy; it is innate; however, Republicans seem driven by what appears as excessive greed. A deeply embedded inherited or innate trait referred to as selfishness. Anyone following Firetree blog knows that I deride Ayn Rand’s philosophy 'exposed' in her book The Virtues of Selfishness. In the words of Eric Cantor, there are the takers and the makers; Republican are the makers and the 47% are the takers. I tag Republicans with the “selfish” label and label Democrats as altruists—as polar opposites but recognize all combinations in between. Selfish people, and Boehner is a prime example of those who feel they are the makers, feel it is their right to be selfish—it seems an inborn virtue. This offends liberals like me. Altruists, or the workers, are truly the makes. They feel it is only fair that they trade a fair days work for a fair days pay. Altruists feel society is based on sharing the good—some call it reciprocal altruism—sharing the wealth through wages and taxes. Republicans feel they do not have to share anything. What is theirs is theirs. How many times have you heard one them say, “I earned it therefore I deserve to keep it.” For Boehner, and the self-proclaimed makers, to accept the concept of shared sacrifice to solve the Nation’s debt problem makes no sense; it would be a bigger sin or immorality then lying. How else can you explain his position?
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