Rick Barber's New Ad Features 'Lincoln' Condemning 'Slavery' Of Taxes And Welfare (VIDEO)

so i guess he's advocating the total abolition of taxes?

i mean, i'm forced to work to pay for the bombs we drop on other countries. i'm also forced to work to pay for cops that protect crazy teabaggers who live in the same municipality as me. and so on. all of THAT is "slavery," too, right?

This ad would be funny if the Onion ran it, but not everyone would get the joke.

Either we come to grips that paying more than your per-capita tax portion is your responsibility and reimbursement for being wealthy in these United States, or we find ourselves in a third-world country with no educated public, no health care for most of us, bad food, toxics all around, unregulated preying opportunism, and widespread ignorance.
Hmmm, we may be there.

I especially like the part where they get Abe Lincoln to blow the racist dogwhistle for them.

Taxes are the same as confiscation.
Losing a vote is the same as slavery.
Criticism is the same as censorship.

A reasonable compromise is me getting everything I want.
WHERE ARE MY COCOA KRISPIES?

Well, technically Tea Baggers and Lincoln both love them some Big Government. It's just that Tea Baggers are delusional.

Didn't President Lincoln know there was no welfare in the slavery days? I'm totally not getting this. Whatever!

When I'm senator of California, those illegal Mexican slaves are SOOO leaving. So, giggle, I guess they won't be getting any welfare. Giggle!

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"Hey, Abe!"

I love how he then shoves Abe aside.

Is Lincoln well-loved in Alabama? Do you think they will get William Tecumseh Sherman to do ads in Georgia?

This guy is becoming an internet meme -- and he deserves to become one! Not only is he channeling dead presidents but he's incorporating other internet memes in his ads: Am I the only one who noticed Alabama's failed Ag Commissioner candidate, Dale Petersen, in this ad. And, as a bonus feature, the guy singing the "secret verse" of the National anthem was also a minor Youtube sensation when he sang it to a Tea Party rally a couple of weeks ago.

I wish this was all just absurdist humor on Barber's part, but it probably is all real. Or surreal.

I think we should cut the excessive federal spending in Alabama. Alabama receives $1.61 in federal spending for every $1.00 they pay in federal taxes. I wonder how taking away that 61 cents would effect Alabama's economy?

I think some of you are giving the likes of Rick Barber too much credit. I doubt there's any deeper meaning to any of their messages. Their worldview is as simple as many of their constituents. In their minds, Lincoln ended slavery, they equate taxes with slavery, so of course Lincoln is an appropriate spokesman against taxes. Anyone capable of grasping the irony of Lincoln's appearance in such a commercial probably wouldn't be voting for Barber anyway. This is just a GOTV ad.

What is it about these nuts that they don't understand every time a person goes to an ER or seeks other medical treatment that they can't afford, forces us to pay a hidden tax.

It is the high cost of health insurance premiums, in large part driven up by the uninsured, that are crushing federal, state and local budgets as well as creating the longest period stagnation in personal income in modern times (excluding the rich and those earning over $300,000 per year, their incomes increased 17% in 2009).

So the dipshit in the ad has a choice. He can be forced to work for more pay and stabilized taxes to help pay for health insurance for those without. OR he can be forced to work for less pay, forever increasing tax burdens (state and local) and pay even more for the health insurance for those who already have it.

What I'd like to know is how much they paid the Black actor in the front, to be in this ad? ;-) Hope it was worth it.

Terrible production values, but mostly correct thinking. As the author has noted, Lincoln - the Great Enslaver - should not be invoked. He managed to get relative freedom for blacks - which was good - but at the cost of enslaving all of America.

Welfare - whether individual or corporate - distorts all of the market signals, and makes all of us poorer and less free.

Taxation to provide basic services that no one but government can provide is one thing; taxation to provide services that others can provide better and cheaper is something else; and being forced to pay top dollar to force children into schools to be miseducated about everything for the benefit of those in power - that is QUITE another thing. As the saying goes, Democracy is two foxes and a chicken deciding what to have for dinner.

BTW, I've traveled around the world, and there are lots of better places to live. If it weren't for the language problem, I might have moved already - and I'm still thinking about it. Espanol es no muy dificil.