The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

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Re: “Every Senate Democrat Votes Tax-and-Spend”

“Anyone saying this Democrat obscenity is not a tax hike is being as disingenuous as someone saying he’s not spending money as long as he takes it from Bucket #1 instead of Buckets #2 or #3. We all know that government money spills from one bucket to the next all of the time, so it matters little which bucket money is spent from. Regardless of the added taxation schemes required by the bill, more money will be taken and applied to expand government and to further subsidize industries and government programs that fail to stand on their own. The Democrats will be throwing more of your money into the toilet.” —Illinois

“When an elected official in either political party is willing to sell their soul and their country for money, power, and votes and still get reelected, it speaks volumes about the voters. How these votes are obtained seems not to matter, as these crooks still retain positions of great power. Compliancy and apathy appear to be the rule for far too many citizens. The Republic is in serious trouble.” —Wyoming

Re: “Manchin Hides the Truth About Raising Your Taxes”

“Prosperity comes from unobstructed ability to do business as it should be done. When you tax businesses at a greed rate, they look for a better place to do business. Too bad historic results of overtaxation are not required reading. Trump had a big mouth but did great things for our economy. Marble mouth has not yet achieved success in many efforts.” —Washington

Re: “Monday Short Cuts”

“Re: Senator Cruz’s concern that 87,000 new IRS agents are being hired, one can clearly see why the Marxist Biden regime wants to do this. Democrats did pretty good under COVID to shut down and destroy small businesses. Mom-and-pop stores were closed while big box stores flourished. The end plan is to have this horde of tax tyrants swoop down on small businesses, dig until they find some violation (no matter how minor), and then watch the owner go bankrupt fighting tax evasion charges. See? Problem gone. Small business becomes just a memory of a bygone capitalist era.” —Pennsylvania

Re: “The IRS Will Target You Next”

“The way I see it, Americans deserve all this. Knowing that Hillary Clinton instigated the Trump-Russia hoax, many Americans are happy ‘their side’ won. The Mueller investigation, loaded with biased Demo stooges, still could find nothing on Trump. We have enough on both Clinton and Biden to imprison them. Now Biden will hire more IRS agents so they vote Dem and victimize Republicans.” —Nevada

Re: “The Democrat-Dominated Deep State”

“We know that Biden lied about not knowing anything about his son’s ‘pay to play’ deals as he flew him around the world (paid for by our taxes) and even met with Hunter’s business partners in the White House. We also know that the FBI and the DOJ conspired with all the Democrats and all the mainstream media and all the social media to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop story and illegally help throw a presidential election. And we know that they tried to oust a duly elected president. That’s the real sedition, and now the entire government is weaponized against the political opposition. Coup complete.” —Georgia

Re: “DeSantis vs. Soros”

“Kudos to DeSantis. He did what he had to do after Warren displayed far too much hubris. But other governors do not enjoy such stupid DAs. Warren was evil and proud of it. His pride blinded him to the risk and so he advertised his intent to ignore the law. He made it almost impossible for DeSantis to not suspend him. DAs throughout our nation are succeeding with the same intent. They are foxy enough to keep quiet. When they must, they feign prosecution and claim justice. The criminal still gets away with it. No disrespect to DeSantis, but failure to suspend Warren would have proved he was not POTUS eligible. As it is, DeSantis for POTUS 2024!” —Missouri

Re: “Soros’s Thesis on Why He Supports ‘Reform-Minded’ DAs”

“I don’t really understand Soros’s method, but why does he spend his money fighting the system rather than spend the same amount of money fixing it? If he thinks too many men are incarcerated, spend the money to keep them from crime, not jail. Only the victims are hurt his way. It seems he does not understand that some people look for ways to victimize others. He has had a sheltered life. His heart bleeds for the criminal as a victim, but he has no sympathy for their victims.” —Nevada

Re: “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore”

“My husband and his three siblings would not be here today if their mom heeded the medical advice of the doctor to abort each pregnancy (back in the ‘40s, though poor, she let God watch over her and her babies). I cannot imagine my life without him or my older adopted brother. Our lives really boil down to only two choices: Pleasing God or pleasing self (2 Cor. 5:9). We each continually face choices and decisions. The outcome of even the tiniest decision can turn your life in another direction. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap (Gal. 6:7). Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin (Prov. 13:15). But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day (Prov. 4:18).” —Illinois

Re: “Transgender’ Activists Claim Social Contagion Isn’t a Factor”

“No ‘studies’ needed. LGBTQ+ advocates assert their practices must be promoted and legitimized and it will not harm our culture. However, both the most casually fleeting observation of world cultures and the most thoroughly rigorous study of human history can find no culture that denigrated, disparaged, and denied the inestimably superior value of the traditional family and survived more than a few generations. NONE. Why? Societies that failed to protect, celebrate, and hold the traditional family as its only legitimate foundation collapsed. Elite leaders promoting LGBTQ+ know this truth and diabolically plan and gleefully anticipate the dismantling of U.S. moral strength.” —Missouri

Re: “Alex Jones, the Jackass King”

“Let me first say that I find Alex Jones to be extremely offensive, making patently false statements as a matter of course. Yet it bothers me a bit that his bloviating is punishable by civil fines of this magnitude. Was this considered to be a case of defamation? Otherwise, it seems like it is a case of free speech being punished. I might completely disagree with what he was saying, but I’m not so sure it should be a punishable offense. Should we expect similar treatment for other societal outliers? Will this same judgment be applied across the political spectrum? How about to all political talk shows? It just seems like when the cheering dies down, there will be implications we won’t be happy with.” —Texas

“Jones’s stories were complete nonsense. However, I would expect a significant reduction in the awards on appeal, since arguably his meager influence could not generate millions of dollars in damages to the plaintiffs.” —Michigan