Nancy Pelosi: Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

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Windfall Tax on Retirement Income ... Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people "you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you."  Nancy Pelosi      wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.  In other words, tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement.  This woman is a nut case!  You aren't going to believe this.

 

Nancy Pelosi              wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds)!

 

Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million (only 12 million?) Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

 

This woman is frightening.              She quotes..      'We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?) in our country; and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.

 

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:        "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities.  For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities              Stock market windfall profits taxes              could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as Americans.

 

(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.)  'Lower your retirement; give it to others who have not worked, as you have' for your money.

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Avatar eddessaknight -
#1
Nancy Pelosi :wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds)!

OUCH!
Avatar eddessaknight -
#2
Insanity personified :-(
Avatar Think -
#3
"We don't want to pay people what they are worth so lets illegally import cheap toilet slaves and then lets enslave the deplorables to become benefits slaves for our toilet slaves...after all why should we have to pay fair living wages when we can just abuse the power of government and enslave whoever we want so we can get virtually free labor to work on our farms and clean our toilets here in liberal land.

Can you imagine how broke us poor liberals would be if we actually had to pay people and pay for their benefits too?"

That pretty much sums up the liberal ideal

Avatar reality1000 -
#4
NANCY PELOSI a Patriot that has weathered the storm read all this and this is from 2009!
Should they change the Republican Animal to Swine? I think with all the slop that they lap up yes!
Summary
Pelosi has taken her place with Obama and Palin as a favorite target of false claims in chain e-mails, judging by the examples our readers send us.

Here’s the truth about some of the bunk being thrown at her by anonymous Internet rumormongers:

    Her husband does not own a $17 million stake in the parent of a company whose American Samoa plant she tried to exempt from minimum wage laws. That claim stems from a Wikipedia hoax.

    She does not routinely fly about in a 757-size jet that she demanded from the Air Force. She normally flies on the same type of executive jet as her Republican predecessor.

    It’s untrue that she’s calling for a 100 percent "windfall" profits tax on stock profits or retirement savings. That malicious hoax has been going around for at least two years but has recently been revived in a slightly different form.

    And it’s not true that she couldn’t figure out that the voyage on which Captain Cook died was his last. That one – the most recent example – tries to pass off a joke lifted from a 48-year-old gag book as a true story about Pelosi.

The anti-Pelosi attacks increased after Democrats won a bigger majority in the House in last year’s election. In earlier articles, we debunked waves of anonymous Internet misinformation about the Democratic presidential contender and the Republican vice presidential pick. Now, it is the speaker’s turn.

Analysis

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has been a target of Internet bunk ever since Democrats seized control of the House from Republicans and first made the San Francisco congresswoman speaker two years ago. The attacks on her were eclipsed for a while by other false Internet rumors being spread about Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, after he became a presidential candidate (see "Sliming Obama" Jan. 10, 2008). Then came a sudden wave of mistaken and made-up claims about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, after she burst on the national scene as the Republicans’ choice for vice president. (See "Sliming Palin," Sept. 8, 2008.) Lately, however, we’ve seen a new wave of bogus attacks on Pelosi.

    A Cooked-Up Story

    Bogus e-mail circulating about Nancy Pelosi

    A TRUE Story! A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF REPRESENTATION WE HAVE IN CONGRESS!

    [EET ]A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function Where Nancy Pelosi happened to appear. Ms Pelosi took the opportunity to Schmooze the good doctor a bit, and she then asked him a question when he was very much at ease.

    ‘Would you mind telling me, Doctor,’ she asked, ‘how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?’

    ‘Nothing is easier,’ he replied. ‘You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track.’

    ‘What sort of question?’ asked Pelosi.

    Well, you might ask, "Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?”

    Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, ‘You wouldn’t happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don’t know much about history.'[/EET]

The latest nonsense, which we’ve reprinted above, contains a number of warning signs that should alert the wary recipient to the fact that it’s not true:

    It makes lavish use of exclamation points and capital letters, as though shouting could make a dubious story believable.

    It describes an "academic function" for which no date or place is given and a "psychiatrist guest" who is not identified by name. Omissions like these commonly make a story impossible to confirm.

    The author of the story is anonymous and says nothing about where or how the story was obtained, also typical of made-up tales.

    And, from a conservative’s point of view, the story is too good to be true. Pelosi supposedly proves her own "mental deficiency" by being stumped when the "psychiatrist" asks, "Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?” She supposedly replies, "I don’t know much about history."

If the story sounds like an old joke, that’s because it is. Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com found and reprinted a version of the story that was published in 1962. In that version, the butt of the joke is an unnamed dinner-party hostess. Mikkelson says other versions appear in even older humor books dating back to the 1950s. So the gag has been around at least a couple of decades longer than Pelosi has been in Congress.

Furthermore, Mikkelson says that for the past several years the same story has been told in other chain e-mails variously targeting non-political figures including "redheads, blondes, Valley Girls and Scientologists." Only recently has some hoaxster grafted Pelosi’s name into the tale.

Other claims now circulating about Pelosi may seem more plausible, and are more pernicious, but are hardly more true.

Hot Air About a "Windfall Tax"

    Recycled "Windfall Tax" Fable

    Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

    Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you’re so darn stupid that we’re going to keep stealing your money until we drain every cent from you. That’s what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below…………….

    [EET ]Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren’t going to believe this.

    Democrat speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds)! Alas , it is true – all to help 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

    This sickening!
    She quotes…’ We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn’t Karl Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.’ (I am not rich, are you?)

    When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
    ‘We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as ‘Americans’.’ (Read that quote again and again and let it sink in. ‘Lower your retirement, give it to illegal aliens and others who have not worked as you have for it’.

    Send it on to your friends. This Democrat is a socialist thief and the speaker of the house![/EET]

An old falsehood going around in a new version has Pelosi advocating a "windfall tax" on all stock market profits, including those in tax-deferred 401(k) retirement accounts. We debunked an earlier version of this one more than a year ago, in one of our very first "Ask FactCheck" items. Back then, we called it "a fraud" and "a malicious fabrication." But it has lived on, and still remains on our Hot Topics list of things we’re asked about most frequently.

In the most recent version, an anon

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