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Boortz shares 'things you won't learn'
Radio personality in favor of fair sales tax
KRISTEN COULTER
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: News
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Boortz discussed teachers' unions, voting rights, global warming and tax policies with a crowd of about 800 people.
He referred to Zaid Jilani's column in Monday's Red & Black multiple times during the speech.
Boortz said while he was misquoted in the column about teachers' unions, Jilani got his sentiment correct.
"Teachers' unions present a greater threat to America than Islamic extremism," Boortz said.
He said America can recover from a massive bombing but can't recover from poor education.
Boortz said schools will not teach students that the right to vote in a federal election is not a constitutional right. He said the 2000 Bush v. Gore case stated citizens have no federal right to vote.
Boortz said he wants to set eligibility criteria - such as identifying Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or Vice President Dick Cheney - for voters.
Boortz gave students a list of "inconvenient facts" to combat former Vice President Al Gore's book and film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." Boortz said the temperatures have risen about one degree during the last 100 years.
The NASA Web site states "that a strong underlying warming trend is continuing." The site states since the 1970s, temperatures increased about 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Boortz, with Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.), authored "The FairTax Book." The plan proposes eliminating income and estate taxes and adding a 23 percent sales tax. To pay for "basic necessities," Boortz said citizens will be given a credit. He said there will be no tax on education.
Boortz said people who are not paying taxes will with the FairTax plan.
"Visitors will be funding social security and medicare," he said.
He referred to other groups and said the "underground economy" will be hurt, because drug dealers - who under the current system do not have to pay taxes - will under Boortz's plan.
Boortz said politicians "use tax policy to control (citizen) behavior," and the plans enaction would be the "largest transfer of power" from politicians to the public.
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Dean
posted 11/06/07 @ 8:11 AM EST
ZAID JILANI must in fact be a dunce.
Craig
posted 11/06/07 @ 8:50 AM EST
Zaid,
Please go home. Your editorial appears to spue HATE even more than this guy Boortz. Your Comment:
Neal Boortz is being paid to come speak by the UU, and his brand of hate-radio extremism is being subsidized by my student fees and that you warn him to be careful of the water he drinks, sounds a little hateful in itself. (Continued…)
Thomas Mote
posted 11/06/07 @ 8:59 AM EST
The average surface temperature changes slowly, and it is uncommon for it to change as rapidly as it has during the past 100 years. (You can find periods where the Earth has cooled rapidly in the geologic past, such as the Younger Dryas, but it is quite uncommon. (Continued…)
Woody ???/?? '82
posted 11/06/07 @ 9:04 AM EST
Mote's point will be moot, just as all other so-called environmental disasters in the past 50 years have proven.
1.4°F is an error in measurement across a century. (Continued…)
Andy
posted 11/06/07 @ 9:26 AM EST
"Shouldn't all aquatic life be dead from acid rain?"
What a dunderhead you are. Nobody ever said acid rain would kill all aquatic life. But it did kill a lot of aquatic life in the northeast and Canada, where pollution from mid-West US coal-fired power plants fell. (Continued…)
Fraternity Man
posted 11/06/07 @ 10:06 AM EST
Yeah! That's it guys! You tell them there noncaucasions that they need to start gettin' the Right wing memos every mornin'. Dag nabbit, if you don't realize that none of that there Global Warmin' is all fakery and fakeness that the liberals made up so that we couln't wear our North Face Jackets cuz they're JEALOUS! Boortz is on the right track, he just needs to get more towards Jesus's reincarnation - RUSH. (Continued…)
che lover
posted 11/06/07 @ 10:35 AM EST
Yeah, sarcasm is cool, you really showed those right wingers this time! We were totally at a loss in this argument, but you showed them with a zany sacrastic comment! Zam! Now lets march up to the arch and protest something while we smoke clove cigarettes, we dont have real jobs so we've got plenty of time! Kiss me, Bill Richards!
Love, Zaid
Andy
posted 11/06/07 @ 11:35 AM EST
NRB: well, that's a well though out and logical response. If you can't face the truth then resort to ad hominem attacks, I guess. Your response does not address the truth of my posting. (Continued…)
Andy
posted 11/06/07 @ 12:35 PM EST
"The one thing that truly scares me about Mr. Boortz is he has inadvertently taught many people, such as the ones whining on this very forum, not to take information on the best research we have and then objectively make decisions, but instead attack the source of information that might be inconvenient to a pre-formed decision they want to stick with. (Continued…)
JESUS
posted 11/06/07 @ 12:45 PM EST
I would like to respond to the gentleman attacking the Professor. You stated that the gentleman has a liberal agenda. I know (since I'm all knowing) that the lefties do not have an agenda, because they are not that well organized. (Continued…)
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