ABE LINCOLN: TAX SLAYER

[defrog]

ITEM [via dinopollard ]: Rick Barber – a Tea Party activist who is running for the GOP nomination for Alabama’s 2nd District House seat – issues a TV ad in which he quizzes Abraham Lincoln.

Barber: Hey Abe. If someone is forced to work for months to pay taxes so that a total stranger can get a free meal, medical procedure or a bailout, what's that called? What's it called when one man is forced to work for another?

Abe: Slavery.

And Abe would know, since he signed the first ever US income tax into law in 1861.

For now, anyway. Once this year’s new textbooks are issued, maybe it’ll be FDR who started the income tax. Or Hillary Clinton. Or, you know, someone. Just like they’ll make clear that Alabama always opposed slavery and refused to implement it. And that Thurgood Marshall was actually a Communist.

Of course, that doesn’t explain the weird logic of how paying an income tax amounts to being “forced” to work for someone else. But look, Barber had to make the Lincoln angle work somehow, and he can’t be expected to think of everything, can he?

Anyway, I recommend watching the ad, if only for the surreal rewritten version of the national anthem and the Dale "Get Away From That Sign!" Peterson cameo. 

Slave to the rhythm,

This is dF

Comments

[dinopollard.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it won't be FDR. I pointed out that Lincoln was nothing like modern-day Republicans and someone said to me, "I always find it amusing when liberals try to claim FDR as one of their own."

So maybe FDR is going to be the next victim of historical revision.

wait....what?

[garbagecanmusic.livejournal.com]

I can't....but.....there's.....and the.....

This is so f-ing confusing that I can't even form a proper goddamned sentence.