"Raise My Taxes"- Lying Stinking Commie Professor!

In the featured 'Commentary' section of the Detroit Free Press today, Diane Carpenter Emling, who is a professor at Northwestern Michigan College, writes "Raise my taxes":

Over the last several years, our state legislators have supposedly done us a great favor by cutting our taxes. Speaking for myself, I barely noticed it. However, the inability of the state of Michigan to fund basic public services is costing me greatly. I can’t afford these tax cuts.

Michigan’s financial problems are structural. It is hypocritical to propose patching yet another annual budget by cuts only. For those who want to solve the fiscal problem by cuts, demonstrate some political courage, rather than going once again to the political cheap-shots.

Make structural changes: Work seriously to pass a progressive income tax. Eliminate funding for townships, consolidate school districts, enact rational sentencing reforms, and eliminate legislative pension and insurance hand-outs. Cut tax loopholes and extend the sales tax to all services. No more across the board cuts, cuts in programs for the most needy, and beating up on teachers and public servants. Significantly increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to protect the most needy, but please, do me a favor: Raise my taxes. Do it now.

Diane Carpenter Emling, you are a liar and a hypocrite. I call you a liar because you don't want your taxes raised- you want my taxes raised- you didn't call for an increase in taxes, you called for an increase on taxes on other people. I call you a hypocrite because you claim that you want your taxes raised, yet I am sure that on your tax deduction you claimed everything possible, and probably haven't donated additional money to the state.

Liberals always try to pretend that they are some sort of holy person and that they would want to be taxed more, but when it comes down to it, they don't. In Virginia they established a "Tax Me More Fund," modeled after the one in Arkansas, where all of those liberals who offer to 'tax me more' can donate money. Year after year, all of the 'tax me more' people donate nothing to this fund (Virginia's fund raised $19.36 in 2006). Given the choice to pay more in taxes, liberals like Professor Emling never do, because they are lying about their agenda- they want you to pay more in taxes, not themselves.

Professor Emling's agenda is quite clear in her editorial- she wants anyone not her to pay more taxes (progressive tax) and to have that wealth redistributed to her (no more cuts to teachers pay). Giving her a voice and listening to her is what will make our country a worse, less successful, a less free, and a less prosperous nation.

A quick search of Professor Diane Carpenter Emling turned up some fun stuff. She is a social studies teacher at Northwestern Michigan University, and apparently teaches her class in the same agenda-driven incoherent babble as her commentary above. One reviewer of her class (ratemyprofessors.com) said "she often talks in circles and is incoherent," another wrote "she is the worst professor i have ever had," and another wrote "she pushes her personal beliefs on the class and she has no room for other beliefs- as long as you can conform to her ideals for the purpose of the class, it is easy, but her class is a joke and she should be fired." She is also surprisingly a big Obama donor (opensecrets.org).

Many people email me and comment that they are scared about how I might be teaching and corrupting our youth- my reviews are the exact opposite of those!

It is doubtful that she can be educated, but if you would like to try, here is how to contact her: Phone: (231) 995-1295 and E-mail: demling@nmc.edu. Have fun!