The general election has started, finally. My hopes were met now that Hillary Clinton has lost and the Clinton hegemony is permanently a thing of the past and will soon be followed by the Kennedy hegemony.
I am elated that, one way or another, America is heading for a new frontier. For example, scinece is getting better and better every day. I particularly like statistics myself. Studies such as this:
Is it OK to cheat on your taxes? A total of 57 percent of those who described themselves as “very liberal” said yes in response to the World Values Survey, compared with only 20 percent of those who are “very conservative.” When Pew Research asked whether it was “morally wrong” to cheat Uncle Sam, 86 percent of conservatives agreed, compared with only 68 percent of liberals.
Ponder this scenario, offered by the National Cultural Values Survey: “You lose your job. Your friend’s company is looking for someone to do temporary work. They are willing to pay the person in cash to avoid taxes and allow the person to still collect unemployment. What would you do?”
Almost half, or 49 percent, of self-described progressives would go along with the scheme, but only 21 percent of conservatives said they would.
When the World Values Survey asked a similar question, the results were largely the same: Those who were very liberal were much more likely to say it was all right to get welfare benefits you didn’t deserve.
The World Values Survey found that those on the left were also much more likely to say it is OK to buy goods that you know are stolen. Studies have also found that those on the left were more likely to say it was OK to drink a can of soda in a store without paying for it and to avoid the truth while negotiating the price of a car.
Another survey by Barna Research found that political liberals were two and a half times more likely to say that they illegally download or trade music for free on the Internet.
A study by professors published in the American Taxation Association’s Journal of Legal Tax Research found conservative students took the issue of accounting scandals and tax evasion more seriously than their fellow liberal students. Those with a “liberal outlook” who “reject the idea of absolute truth” were more accepting of cheating at school, according to another study, involving 291 students and published in the Journal of Education for Business.
A study in the Journal of Business Ethics involving 392 college students found that stronger beliefs toward “conservatism” translated into “higher levels of ethical values.” And academics concluded in the Journal of Psychology that there was a link between “political liberalism” and “lying in your own self-interest,” based on a study involving 156 adults.
Liberals were more willing to “let others take the blame” for their own ethical lapses, “copy a published article” and pass it off as their own, and were more accepting of “cheating on an exam,” according to still another study in the Journal of Business Ethics.
To me, science like that makes me feel all warm inside.
The Obommunists are celebrating wildly now that Obama has secured the nomination. I am have previously been torn on this situation for two reasons. One is, I don’t like McCain very much. The second reason is that the abomination of an Obama presidency combined with a Democrat congress will handily ensure a 1984 come 2012. I must admit that prospect is very tempting, but I find any harm to my fellow Americans for political gain very loathsome. If the second reason comes to pass then I will be very sad, but my conscience will be clean in knowing that I had no hand in ushering in an era of increased and damaging social policies.
I realize that leftists could say the same about me supporting Bush’s policies for the past 8 years and I will probably concede to a lot of their critisicms. However, we as a nation must realize that the fruits of our labor during the Bush administration may not come to pass for quite a while. That is not to say that everything Bush has done has been for the better, far from it, but the opposite is false as well.
Change is inevitable. I will continue in another post.
Tags: change, Communism, dishonest, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Obommunism, socialist
Bodacious,
As a former Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) in Australia, I hold very strong views in relation to the issue of cheating on taxes.
Whilst taxpayers have every right to work within the law to legally minimize their tax contribution, tax evasion, or cheating on your taxes, is simply unethical.
As well as politicians pay, taxes are what pay for public roads, schools, hospitals, public infrastructure and other public services. They are a necessary contribution from all citizens toward the effective functioning of society.
Where individuals cheat on their tax contribution, the burden upon other members of society in terms of funding public services and facilities is unfairly increased.
Picture a person in a team who is not prepared to carry his fair share of the workload, forcing others to shoulder a higher level of burden. That, in my opinion, is the effect of individuals (or companies) who cheat on taxes or welfare payments.
Cheers
Andrew
In America our tax system is regressive. As it currently stands the top 50% of the working people (the richest) pay over 96% of all individual income taxes while the lowest 20% pay -6% or so taxes, they get money to be poor.
Because of that I would say, ” the burden upon other members of society in terms of funding public services and facilities is unfairly increased” by a very, very large margin as it is.
I agree with you,cheating on your taxes makes it that much worse.