Harbison: The New "Fairness" Doctrine

Is it fair that selected government officials like Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and Charlie Rangel who preach tax fairness were allowed to pay their delinquent taxes without penalties? Doesn't that sound biased, partial and prejudicial? Isn't that UNfair?

President Obama sends his daughters to elite private schools that are safer, better-run, and produce higher test scores than public schools - but poor families in New Mexico are denied that free choice and forced to send their kids to failing schools?  Is that fair?

Is it fair that the green energy industry - wind, solar and ethanol producers get billions of dollars of subsidies and pay virtually no taxes, while the oil and gas industry—which combined with hydroelectric, provides about 93% of the energy we consume—pays tens of billions of dollars of taxes?  And the president complains that it is oil and gas that are "subsidized"? 

Is it fair that after the last three years of failing economic policies, the poor are poorer, the poverty rate is rising, there are more Americans on food stamps than ever before, the middle class is losing income, and some 5.5 million fewer Americans have jobs today than in 2007?  According to the Congressional Budget Office federal employees receive salaries and benefits that are nearly 50% higher than those of private-sector workers whose taxes pay their salaries. Is that fair?

Thousands of workers won't have jobs because the president sided with environmentalists and blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline project.  Boeing, a private company, was threatened by a federal agency when it sought to add jobs in a right-to-work state rather than in a forced-union state.  Workers in 27 states are compelled to join a union in order to keep their jobs?  Where is the fairness?

Fairness, like beauty, is apparently in the eyes of the beholder.  With the record above, can we afford to permit the federal government to be the arbiter of fairness? How many individual freedoms and rights are you willing to forfeit for Obama’s fairness doctrine?  Hopefully voters will see through the liberal rhetoric that has corrupted the true meaning of fairness and properly decide this Administration is a “shovel ready project” that should be shoveled out of Washington, like manure from the stables.