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The fiscal cliff deal limited the amount of money wealthies can deduct from their taxes for charitable gifts. Ari Fleischer reacted:
So let’s get this straight, Fleischer (and his many others) don’t believe it’s the government’s role to aid the disadvantaged, that’s a job for charities. But he won’t donate much to charity unless he can write it off on his taxes.
He wants us to subsidize his Good Feeling of Giving that’s, in his world, all there is to take care of the poors.
He’s doing it wrong.
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Elliot!
The stupid, it Buuuurrrrrrnnnnnssss!
Somehow this asshat cannot figure out that it is actually much more efficient and cost effective for the government to just tax him and to fund those programs directly.
But FREEDOM!
it Buuuurrrrrrnnnnnssss hard!
Shorter Ari Fleischer: “I didn’t get my way so now I’m going to take my ball and go straight home” I doubt he eats his vegetables either.
Asshat.
If you want my charity money, you better pay me for it!
I also suspect he mostly contributes to groups like the Heritage Foundation, rather than organizations that make the world a better place.
Small government® Teabagger at work is buying a house. I go in to Teabagger’s office to ask a question and Teabagger is attempting to fill out a HUD form on his computer for government help in subsidizing his purchase. So, Mr. small government®, follow the rules® Teabagger is not only asking for government money, he’s doing it on company time. Conservatism, thy name is hypocrisy.
Yep. Charitable to him = Koch’s conservative pundit cruise.
Always.
what fun!
Great catch.
But Ari does nothing right. “Doing it wrong” is the motto on his family crest.
dham straight
It is also the case that the rich donate less of their income to charity than the middles class and working poor.
Yeah, another Obama hater there is pissed because the state of Texas found out he was scamming them because his wife claimed they were separated and filed for assistance. The state began taking child support out of his check so genius goes down there with his wife and they swear they are together, so now they are paying all that money back plus a stiff fine. And it’s all Obama’s fault.
Thanks. How… unsurprising.
John Stuart Mill was far too kind and generous in his assessment.
Explain that your duty to your employer requires you to turn him in.
No Randian would endorse the altruism of looking the other way as he thieves from your employer. Nor could actually ask you not to, without providing sufficient incentive for your silence.
Not hypocrites, Gawd’s saboteurs.
Treasonous weasels.
*laffin’!*
Misers, I believe they are called Misers
Ties into other studies that show that the only characteristic that self-made millionaires generally share is greed. They are not mostly all that smart or innovative, just greedy.
Ebeneezer Scrooge is alive and well on Wall Street.
Dunno if I want to get somebody fired and he would be. He’s the one that swapped all of the toilet paper for pics of Obama’s face in the Mens room. Steve ratted him out and he’s still on probation.
Greedy, ruthless and lucky, yep.
Is Ari still relevant? Rs are becoming like a different species.
They have been for a couple of decades now.
also psychopathology
Yeah, the “R” is now for Reptilian.
Is this the same Ari Fleischer who committed treason, helping other top Republicans in the Bush/Cheney administration blow the covert CIA identity of Valerie Plame Wilson? I thought so. He, and Cheney, and Rove, and Libby, and Bush, and every other Republican who committed this traitorous act (during a time of war, against a top CIA counter-proliferation officer and agent), should all be finding out what prison food tastes like, at a for-profit keep-expenses-to-a-minimum privatized prison.
Why yes, yes it is.
Don’t you love it when they begin to show their hate for each other? Steve King shouting at the Rs and then racing back into his cave when Bohner agreed to call a vote in “a week or two.”
ellie! ari fleischer’s an asshole
Fuck Ari Fleischer and the knock-kneed pony he rode in on.
a saurian one
who doesn’t enjoy Republicans in disarray :)
With hemorrhoids and a pilonidal cyst.
*heh* Since when has he ever done anything right, Ellie…? ;-)
And diverticulitis.
Once again I’m not going to sleep much tonight, though I have to get up and go to work early tomorrow. I’ve been in a creative frenzy over the holidays and they didn’t last long enough for me to run out of gas.
What are you creating?
Oh my! Are you creating a better world?
Nobody at Faux Nooz better find out about this. They don’t stand for that kind of thing.
Think I will toddle off. I am back to teaching 3 hours in the mornings and need my beauty rest. Take care all.
who fucking cares, if your selected – as – Ari worthy – Gazan-settler charities get a check from you this year for ammo and tear gas grenades, Ari. not me. Make sure you get those taxes filed though, Ari. It would be illegal for you not to pay your US taxes.
I hope. I’ve been writing a book off and on forever and I’ve just been recently reminded that I began it as a kind of manual for transgendered teens, so they don’t make the same mistakes I did. I’d like to get it finished and shop it around some.
Sounds wonderful and much needed. Let me know if you get it published. I have some contacts in the trans community here and will put out the word.
point taken …!
Cool! Thanks. Glad you didn’t toddle off too quickly. Night!
It’s always the people who advocate robbing the safety net to pay for tax cuts for the 1% who are secretly ‘charitable.’ Funny how that works.
g’night
wonderful!
Good for you! Hope it works out. Sounds like a much needed book.
An excellent idea! I hope it works out well for you.
Ooh, that should be quite a tome, Peg…!
I’m going to slip out as well, as I too have to get up early tomorrow
Good night everybody
I’m gonna take off too. Thanks Ellie! Night all.
Good night to the Firedog exodus.
Sweet dreams, y’all…! *g*
AriHead Fleischer. Deserves ZERO press attention.
Oh, I don’t know about that. It seems to me that it would be worth a few column-inches to report that Fleischer had sustained a humiliating kick in the crotch.
*heh* I’d give my left nut, to deliver said kick to Ari’s satchel…! ;-)
All the more reason to turn the Kochroach in. After all, he’s a totally self-sufficient guy, right?
Keep your blood money AND your fear-mongering Ari. :P
Good ol’ “Be careful what you say” Ari Fleischer, the errand boy of fascism. His idea of “charity” is probably to buy some more helicopter gunships for Israel. Fuck him, the douche-bag.