Karl Rove and company are losing the argument over inequality

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Karl Rove and company are losing the argument over inequality

By Greg Sargent

In that big Times story yesterday, Steven Law, the leader of the Rove-founded Crossroads groups, conceded that Obama is winning the argument over tax fairness and inequality. With the President now pitching the Buffett Rule, Law admitted the tax debate is playing Obama’s way, because it feeds the idea that Mitt Romney favors an “economic plutocracy” in which the deck is stacked against the middle class.

So get ready for Crossroads’ response. Mike Allen reports that Crossroads is launching targeted ads and a petition — wait for it — to pressure Obama and Warren Buffett to pay up more in taxes themselves if they really think the rich should be paying more.

Seriously. Via Noam Scheiber, here’s the new Facebook petition from Crossroads:

President Obama and Warren Buffett are deeply troubled by how low their taxes are. Nothing is stopping them from paying more in taxes voluntarily. Sign the petition to encourage Obama and Buffett to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to the “Buffett Rule.”

This might not be worth bothering with, if it weren’t for the possibility that some form of this message may find its way into Crossroads’ massive impending ad blitz, too.

Really, it continues to amaze that people in positions of real influence could venture something this idiotic with no evident sense of embarrassment. The problem Obama and Buffett are trying to address isn’t that each of them personally can’t pay more in taxes if he so chooses. The problem they are trying to address won’t be fixed if Obama, Buffett, and another dozen wealthy Americans write more checks to the federal government. Rather, they are trying to solve a society wide problem that threatens the future of a country of over 300 million people — one that, in their telling, requires a bit more sacrifice from high earners as a whole class if we are to have any hope of solving it.

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Wow, Republicans are actually pushing a petition to protect the rich and preserve inequality.

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1. Kick! n/t

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2. "Wow, Republicans are actually pushing a petition to protect the rich and preserve inequality."

You're surprised? Seriously?