Last week, an urgent tickler arrived via e-mail from the State Democratic Party, one that commanded our immediate attention. It was titled: “Terrence Wall the Tax Dodger.”
It appears that the State Democratic Party is in a full orgasmic tizzy about Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall (who would like to unseat incumbent Russ Feingold) having allegedly incorporated multiple businesses in the State of Delaware, thus avoiding his civic duty to be taxed back to the Stone Age. Of course, in the vernacular of class envy, politically correct modern politics, Wall (the dirty no-good) is referred to as Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall, which we will try to remember.
Just for laughs, let’s assume that everything in this most urgent message is true, which is a risky proposition with political heavy breathers. In response to this stunning and no doubt politically devastating piece of opposition research, I shout a hale and hearty “Ho Hum!”
Why be so cavalier about such an obvious and unforgiveable outrage, one that certainly should bring the political demise of Terrence Wall? Excuse me…. Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall?
Well, how about the reality of equal and opposite outrage?
Incorporating a business in Delaware is not an uncommon practice for business people trying to create jobs, meet a payroll, and otherwise operate a private venture in tax hells like Wisconsin. Perhaps if big-government chuckleheads could bring themselves to make our taxes more competitive, people wouldn’t feel compelled to live, vacation, or incorporate a business elsewhere.
Mike Tate, the incomparable chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, called Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall’s actions a “kick in the gut” to working families across the state. Well, Mike, we get a kick out of your ilk, too, but you’re not really upset about Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall’s ability to dodge taxes. You’re chapped about not getting your addicted mitts on some OPM — Other People’s Money.
So spare me the phony outrage and consider a couple of real insults:
- A whopping 5,224 porky earmarks that recently were stuffed inside a $447 billion House bill to fund various federal government agencies, and;
- The possibility of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to give Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a civilian trial. Not to create jobs, mind you, but to give an Al-Qaeda terrorist a trial and probably a jihadist-puking platform, too.
And that’s on top of military incursions based on a false premise (weapons of mass destruction), fabulously expensive stimulus bills that don’t do enough to create jobs, or health care reform monstrosities that spend upwards of $1 trillion and STILL don’t result in universal health insurance coverage.
How could anyone not want to fork over more of their hard-earned money for this?
Here is something that should make Tate feel better. Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall’s “tax dodge” no doubt enables his business entities to keep more of their wealth — wealth they, not almighty God government, created — and use it instead to employ more people here in Greater Madison than they otherwise would. These would be employees who pay taxes that fund local, state, and federal governments.
But tax dodging was not the only charge against Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall.
Tate’s breathless bulletin also noted that Wall … excuse me, Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall, cut his senate campaign a check for $275,000. The unmistakable implication is that he’s trying to buy the election.
To this, I scream “Hallelujah!”
At least with Multi-Millionaire Real Estate Magnate Terrence Wall, as is also the case with U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (excuse me, Multi-Millionaire Herb Kohl), we’ll know just who is buying the election and how much he’s paying for it. If every candidate did this, we might see an end to a vicious cycle: the accumulation of campaign donations in exchange for the payola of pork-barrel spending.
Now that’s a kick in the gut.
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