Reply #117: You reminded me of an observation I was going to make last night. . . .

[Tansy_Gold]

while BF and I were listening to the MSNBC blather about McBush's cute little comment to the child about raising taxes.



Wouldn't it be refreshing if a candidate -- or a president-elect or :gasp: a President -- announced that no, he's not going to raise taxes on those who are hurting, those who are seeing 25% of their net income go to gasoline pumps and 50% of their net income go to food, leaving NOTHING left for health insurance and heating oil and new tires and new clothes and savings, never mind RENT or MORTGAGE PAYMENTS.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if that candidate picked up that innocent child who had been bribed to mouth that RW talking point and said right into the news camera:

"America, I'm not going to raise taxes on the working people who have done so much for the past 240 years to make this a great country. But damn it, I sure as hell am going to raise taxes on the idle rich, the hedge fund managers and the stock brokers and the options manipulators and the parasite CEOs and the outsourcers and the offshorers, the corporations and the LLCs and the LLPs and the Grand Cayman 'residents' who do business here and suck all the profits into their private tax shelters and numbered accounts.

"Americans, I'm not going to raise taxes on the working people who have watched their dreams vanish in the smoke of abandoned factories and foreclosed houses and crumbling bridges. But damn it, I sure as fucking hell am going to raise taxes on those who have paid the least and enjoyed the most."

We need to have taxes raised, but someone needs to point out that there are those who are paying an unfair burden already and that there are others who are paying too damn fucking little.


Tansy Gold