CommentsDisplaying Moonbat's 10 most recent comments.

• Afghan ‘Massacre’ Suspect Identified: Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales

  March 16, 2012 at 10:53pm

  In reply to momprayn.

  This is the most reasonable and humane thing I’ve seen all day. I don’t often agree with the posts here, but you are a class act, Momprayn.

• ‘Kony 2012’: Viral Video’s Filmmaker Arrested for Lewd Acts

  March 16, 2012 at 10:22pm

  In reply to HorseCrazy.

  They didn‘t actually mention the fact that he’s white. You might be surprised to learn that there are Black, Hispanic and Asian Christians, too.

• Is Vanderbilt University Denying Religious Freedom to Christian Groups on Campus?

  September 26, 2011 at 3:00pm

  In reply to TWO BITS.

  Still no. I doubt very much that the campus GLBT groups, for instance, exclude Christians. And if they do, they shouldn’t get funding, either. It’s despicable to make me pay for something and then specifically exclude me from using it. Again — why can’t they just pay for their own stuff?

• ‘Economic Terrorism’: Big Companies Targeted for Ties to Christian Groups That Oppose Gay Marriage

  September 26, 2011 at 2:48pm

  In reply to tankyjo.

  @ rdietd7

  My point about the Constitution is that everyone is protected by it — there is no exemption for homosexuals. This isn’t just a symbolic issue. There are real financial and social benefits that come along with marriage. How can you possibly justify making somebody pay higher taxes, for instance, just because they don’t agree with your personal religious views?

• Billionaire Bloomberg Calls for ‘Raising Taxes on Everybody’

  September 26, 2011 at 2:37pm

  In reply to Moonbat.

  Fair enough, Swampy. To everybody that‘s kvetching about poor people who don’t pay income tax, though, let me point something out: while the income tax is (allegedly) progressive, other taxes are not. Payroll taxes and sales taxes, for instance, fall more heavily on the poor. If you look at the entire tax burden on the individual, just about everybody pays a higher percentage of their income than Warren Buffet.

• Billionaire Bloomberg Calls for ‘Raising Taxes on Everybody’

  September 26, 2011 at 12:31pm

  In reply to Moonbat.

  @ Erabin

  Ha. Right on. Capital gains *are* income. Calling them something different only serves to make the tax code more regressive.

• Billionaire Bloomberg Calls for ‘Raising Taxes on Everybody’

  September 26, 2011 at 12:10pm

  The point that Bloomberg (and y’all) are missing is that tax rates are only notional anyway. The tax code is so riddled with subsidies and exemptions that the wealthiest corporations and individuals are able to get away with paying a fraction of the alleged tax rates — or nothing at all.

  The reason Warren Buffet is so famously able to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary is that he’s a hedge fund manager — his earnings are somehow considered capital gains instead of income, so he gets to pay 15%, which is less than what I pay, and probably you, too.

  We don’t need to raise taxes — we need to eliminate loopholes. Why are we subsidizing hedge funds, Exxon and GE?

• Is Vanderbilt University Denying Religious Freedom to Christian Groups on Campus?

  September 26, 2011 at 11:47am

  In reply to Lesterp.

  It’s a club funded by student fees. This guy still has to pay for the organization that ecludes him. That’s the point.

• Is Vanderbilt University Denying Religious Freedom to Christian Groups on Campus?

  September 26, 2011 at 11:43am

  In reply to TWO BITS.

  Freedom of association is not the issue. These campus groups are funded with student fees. Should a gay student be required to pay for an organization that excludes him?

  If campus organizations want to exclude people, they have every right to do so — but they should pay their own way.

• ‘Economic Terrorism’: Big Companies Targeted for Ties to Christian Groups That Oppose Gay Marriage

  September 26, 2011 at 11:21am

  In reply to tankyjo.

  The Constitution doesn’t give you the right to impose your morality on anybody else, and neither does the Bible. Everybody quotes Romans 1, but nobody ever goes on to Romans 2: “Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgement on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.”