Here are the comments made by President Barack Obama this morning.

Here’s what he really said:

The American auto industry will now be run directly out of my office.  When I go to the G20 meeting, I want to be able to tell the most Despotic of world leaders that I have completely nationalized a major industry in my country so that I’ll be invited to all the cool communist cocktail parties.

Obviously this doesn’t guarantee that anyone in Michigan or elsewhere is any more likely to have a job than if we had let the companies go bankrupt.  But obviously we couldn’t just let “the Market” [laughter from the White House press] just do what it pleases.  We’re appointing a new White House “Car Czar,” but first we want to make sure he a) doesn’t have any tax liens, and b) drives a Mercedes SUV.

Any questions…?

Former IRS Commisioner T. Coleman Andrews (also ran for president in the 1956 election) had these pointed words about Income Tax that ring true today:

“The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.”

“The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies upon the estates of people when they die.”

“As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves of the government. People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well.”

“The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men.”

“I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves…”

And an interesting website on IRS Whistle blowers.

This is a very simple and very concise response to the Liberal mantra of “Solving Problems.” Or as one of our authors used to call “Using Government Creatively.” Ron Paul is very effective of making the point that “Progressivism” is nothing if not regressive.

Ron Paul on “Central Planning.”

Ron Paul didn’t have a chance from the beginning for one simple reason:  He’s a threat to the “Centralites” who keep their power by making sure everyone is convinced that they can solve ALL problems Federally.