[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

[...]An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]…

An Interview with Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads….

I come from a poor family and I will work till the day I die. I worked hard to put myself through college and to ensure that my family has a good life. Now I see all my hard work going to support those that will not work. Why should the government give them money to live on and now health insure that I have to pay for. The more government programs there are the more people you will have that are not working, why work if you don’t have to. I grew up in section 8 housing so I know how most these people live and think.

Please don’t compare us to China, the founders of this country died so we can have what we have. If China wants it bad enough they will standup and fight.

Health care is something that no person should go without at this point. We are way to rich and techinically sophisticated to have people unable to obtain treatment.

This myth of self-reliance is so offensive sometimes. I wish people could take a step back and realize that they deserve very little of what they have. I am sure you work hard, but do you work sweatshop hard? Do you work Sugarcane plantation hard? Doubtful.

Here is a reality check for your hard work vs. desert formula. There are 330 million or so people in the US. As someone else in this post mentioned the avg. US income is around 50k.

In China alone there are over 500 million people that make 2 dollars a day or less. If you are doing the math… that is less than 800 dollars a year. You think you deserve what you have more than these people? I would bet your hard working self reliance would have a real hard time with a day in their lives….. or for that fact those in extreme poverty in our own country.

You have what you have for many reasons…. few of them have much to do with you. Keep this in mind when you decide to base fairness on your own experience.

Do you all not see how asinine this whole situation is?

There are also plenty of fixes for problems like this that do not involve reinventing the tax system.

The reason we have tax breackets rather than a one to one relationship between taxes and pay is to account for costs of living, and the hope that all americans may one day achieve some level of financial security. I happen to think that is a nice thing despite what the made up character from the mind of a person writing as a reaction to the deeply repressive Soviet regime. John Galt has been widely discredited over time and with very good reason. That selfish dogma is simply that… there is no virtuousness in being doggedly self centered. If nothing else this recession showed us that.

Either way I like what you are doing…

Lots of Rigell stuff mentioned here….

I will not call what Altdaily does Orthodox, but we do try to keep it classy. Mr. Rigell’s affairs will undoubtedly see increased scrutiny as the campaign heats up… so lets wait for the facts to surface:)

Explain why anyone in the middle class would want to work harder to start a new business and create jobs when the government will take more of their money.

As for your last statement, it is in all of mankind’s selfish best interest to take responsibility for his fellow man by doing his best to provide for himself so that no one else has to provide for him. To quote John Galt;”I swear — by my life and my love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
John Galt

Also the fouding fathers would have taken issue with a good portion of our laws today. To appeal to the mindset of some classist guys from the late 1700s is a really weak argument. I think people bust that one out when they have no leg to stand on.

Our founding fathers had an advanced sense of justice for their time… that is all. Their views were not universally correct throughout time. We have eradicated many of the norms they held already.

The fact that a person should only be motivated by their own selfishness and not by an overriding sense of responsibility to the people of this world is one of the last hold outs. it needs to go.

I make 55k a year before taxes. If I make 5k more a year, I will take home less money because I will be in a new tax bracket. That makes no sense. What incentive is there for me to work harder when I can get a promotion and make less money. The FairTax will fix that by taxing only the things I consume, not the money I make. If you look back at the founding of this country, the founders specifically forbid a tax on someones income.

Fair tax would simply enlarge the gulf between rich and poor. Those with means would use those means to circumvent the tax and those without would find basic necessities were breaking the bank.

“mouthpiece of the Rigell campaign”- that is funny.