Ohio I.G. investigating child support inquiry re "Joe the Plumber"

As the female director states, if you're high enough on the flagpole, she'll check you out. This discourages men from speaking out on any issue. The government investigating someone who speaks out is a form of political oppression.

And you thought they only wanted your money. No, they want your mind as well. And your freedom of speech. They want you to shut up and pay your child support.

manonthestreet

This is nothing less than fascist police state tactics. Do you Americans really believe you are free? I for one say your freedom stinks!

manonthestreet

I really don't know much about the principles of Karl Marks. What I would say is all government redistribute wealth. They do that when they take taxes and give it to the military. They do that when they take takes and give it to the space programme. If fact all governments can do is redistribute wealth - they take it from A and give to B.

As for Karl Marks I am not sure you are giving me a true representation or just what you think Mark's stands for. Remember you are talking about a philosopher who lived in nineteenth century and was born 190 years ago. He is closer to Mozart than to us.

Thank you for this post.

I'm sick of hearing people attack the "redistribute the wealth" line. Helping the poor? Oh god, what a horrible idea!

han090:

Last year, my annual living expenses were about $22K. That includes food, mortgage, insurance, gas, utilities, veterinary bills, etc. In addition, I contributed $5K to charity. However, my tax burden was over $70K. In other words, I paid 2-3 times more in taxes than what I spent on myself. Equally so, my marginal tax rate is about 50%. This means that for every extra dollar I earn, half of it goes to various forms of government. What incentive do I have to keep working?

While I have a solid income, I'm not rich. And I deserve every penny that I earn. I typically work about 60-70 hours/week. In the last 20 years, I've taken 10 days of vacation. I often wake up with dread in the middle of the night thinking about issues at work.

I'm almost 49. My current plan is to early retire when I turn 50. Why should I be a contributing member of society when it's much easier to be a leech. The amount I pay in taxes will drop from $70K/yr to much less than $5K/yr. This is the consequence of people like you who believe that the forced redistribution of wealth is the optimal way for society to operate. Fine. You can live with the consequences. You can pay the extra taxes to make up for me dropping out of the workforce. I'm going to Disneyland.

And why do you think taxes are effectively used? Government programs that fund feminism are an example of how our taxes are used. Or how about this. Four years ago I applied to a State of California program that paid me to have my car repaired.

Personally, I'm sick of bleeding hearts who don't give a crap about others but insist on imposing their self righteous morality on me. These are people like Obama and Joe Biden. Biden gives essentially nothing to charity but insists that I don't pay my fair share of taxes. Or how about gross polluters like Al Gore. Gore uses 200 times more energy at his house than I use at my house, yet he has the arrogance to lecture me about my energy use.

Our country is faced with a moral crises that has nothing to do with insufficient help for the poor. I've dropped out of the marriage market for the same reason that I'm dropping out of the labor market. It isn't worth it. And I'm not alone.

"I'm sick of hearing people attack the "redistribute the wealth" line. Helping the poor? Oh god, what a horrible idea!"

If you want to help the poor then do it with your own money. Government action is no more inherently just then individual action. Morally there is no difference in between in and a group of your friends getting together, grabbing guns, and showing up at someones house in order extort money out of someone else using the threat of violence; or, outsourcing your dirty work to a government which will do the same thing.

A thief that uses violence [or the threat of violence] in order to forcibly take someone else's property is still an thief, it makes no difference if he wears a fancy suit and has nice title; instead of wearing a black mask and having a extensive police record.

I'm not too worried about Obama's tax plan. The Obama bashers here can attempt to make him sound like some sort of communist (a ridiculous claim to make about someone running for President of the United states), but let us not forget that John McCain was "Captain of the $700 billion bailout", the corporate welfare plan to put our tax money into the bank accounts of the same predatory lending corporations that damaged the economy in the first place. McCain then turns around and calls Obama a socialist! The Obama bashers here might be McCain supporters. That's your American choice and your right - I'm not criticizing that - but I think they all do a little bit of "wealth redistribution" in their own way. Giving a tax break to people who make less than quarter of a million dollars (which is most Americans) is hardly communist. It is just a good old American tax break. It is also a gimmick when McCain calls Obama a "redistributor" or when he misquotes the tax policy altogether and says "Obama want to raise your taxes". These are attempts to put fear in the simple-minded and are not real policy arguments. Obama usually laughs it off and re-explains that most people will see a tax cut under his administration. If people who make over a quarter-mil have to pay more than the middle-class and poor people then "boo-hoo" for them.

In general, Obama would not lead America down a dark path. His ideas are new but not radical or insane, or communist for that matter. Aren't people sick of the same 'ol?

Matt: You're a very rational MRA and now you go around charging Obama and feminists with Marxism. Even as an anti-feminist who's diametrically opposed to their ideology, I myself find that it sounds ridiculous to go around calling things "communist" or "Marxist".

The problem is not Barrack Obama. The problem is Joe Biden! How fu*#ed are all of us men if he becomes VP or even President?

Obama was 9 years old when Bill Ayers pulled his stunt. He's not a domestic terrorist and he doesn't pall around with them. That is another simplistic McCain / Palin sound-byte used to scare people.