Having attended Saturday evening Mass this past weekend, GorT and Mrs. GorT were enjoying a leisurely Sunday morning by watching some Sunday morning news shows over breakfast.  One show had Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) on to discuss his sponsorship of the “ex-PATRIOT” Act.  While others have compared it to the Soviet-style exit taxes and Grover Norquist compared it to Nazi, Rhodesian and South African tax schemes, I found something else disturbing about the Senator’s discussion.

During some of the open dialogue with the hosts, Senator Casey threw out some estimate of the amount of taxes Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin which was in the millions of dollars and claimed that without such legislation, the United States would have to “make up” that lost tax revenue.  Excuse me?

This is a key area where liberals and conservatives differ.  Liberals will focus on the rich investor, creator, leader, or founder of a company and decry how much they earn and how little they pay in taxes.  Conservatives will laud the same people for taking that risk and growing our economy by investing capital, time, and other resources and creating – not “creating or saving” – jobs.  Currently it had created somewhere north of 3,500 jobs.  It is looking to populate a Menlo Park, California campus with over 9,000 employees in the next five years.  Not only is that growth for Facebook, but the businesses in and around Menlo Park will see an economic uptick.

To you liberals out there, this is 3,500 employees now paying income taxes to the United States.  As they exercise their options and sell their shares, they will be paying capital gains taxes to the United States.  This is creating revenue for the United States.  Revenue the country did not have prior to the existence of Facebook.  So instead of being greedy and targeting the rich investor who is leaving, why not focus on creating an atmosphere that encourages more investors, founders, and entrepreneurs to create businesses here in the United States?

Unfortunately, the hosts did not pick up on that tidbit.  Mrs. GorT did and almost spat our her coffee screaming, “it wasn’t here to start with, idiot!!”  We need to pressure these liberal idiots.  Letting something like that slide only allows the continuation of the envious warfare that they are engendering in this country.  We need to stop allowing politicians to take deficit cutting credits for costs that weren’t going to be there to start.  We need to focus on creating and improving the business environment for American job growth.  Revamp education like we’ve said we’ve needed to do for the last 60 years.  Overhaul and simplify the tax code.  Review and streamline federal regulations – keep appropriate safeguards in place, but eliminate ones that are restricting job growth.  And stop allowing politicians off the hook for soundbite answers that make no sense.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.