The whole tax debate is a perfect example. They refuse, just absolutely refuse, to raise taxes on the richest 1%. Why?, they're the "job creators"(TM). Bullshit. At the top of the ladder they have been buying out companies that actually did create jobs and then firing people and shipping jobs overseas. They have actually cost jobs. Millions of people in the country can attest to this.
We can't tax them because they need the money to create jobs. Bullshit. The top companies and their CEOs are sitting on trillions in cash.
But they pay X amount already! ...Well, we are suppose to feel sorry because they will have to save a little longer to get that 3rd or 4th house? Many of these people have more money than they could spend in a lifetime.
The fact that these people are worshiped as Gods and providers in our society and freely granted privileged is sickening and disgusting. It's all propaganda to prepare you for what is to come.
This is not really a secret, many right wingers will freely attest to this, but here is the reason they want to eliminate taxes. They want to eliminate government,make it basically powerless, down to protection and law enforcement.
No money to operate means no government.
Let's just imagine their utopia. Once the government is toothless who do you think will fill that power vaccum? The people? If you said that please tell me you are either joking or 12.
No, the people with the resources, money, media, land will control things.
Here is how that will be different than what we have now. The people in control will not have to spend big money on lobbyists and campaigns and will not have to worry about those who might dare challenge them.
Government is not of the people now and not working for the people. That I grant you without reserve. The idea that eliminating government will solve the problem is such shallow thinking that it is undeserving of respect.
Just one more example of thousands from Digby:
We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax.( and mind you these are the same people that turn around and push for tax cut after tax cut )
.....Overall, less than a quarter of the nation’s households don’t contribute to federal tax receipts — and the majority of the non-contributors are students, the elderly, or the unemployed. Does Perry believe that these people are really undertaxed?
At the same time that Perry is crying foul over the poor and the elderly paying too little in taxes, income inequality in the country has skyrocketed. Just the richest 400 Americans hold more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined, and the richest 10 percent of Americans control two-thirds of the country’s net worth. But its low tax rates at the bottom of the income scale that have Perry all riled up.
Rick Perry is an idiot. So is Bachmann by all accounts. These are people with strong social intelligences, but not a lot of analytical firepower or intellectual curiosity.
They appeal to less educated conservative voters who vote their "gut" and "common sense", and take the mockery and rejection of their heroes' ideas by educated elites as proof of their righteousness. By definition, these less educated voters tend to be lower income as well. A great many of them are almost certainly in that poorer 47% than has no federal income tax liability.
And Perry and Bachmann are the conservative candidates trying to win election by promising to raise the taxes of the very constituency to which they are trying to appeal.
Matt Taibbi called it best:
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They’re completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. I’m an ordinary middle-aged guy who pays taxes and lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog — and I’m a radical communist? I don’t love my country? I’m a redcoat? Fuck you! These are the kinds of thoughts that go through your head as you listen to Tea Partiers expound at awesome length upon their cultural victimhood, surrounded as they are by America-haters like you and me or, in the case of foreign-born president Barack Obama, people who are literally not Americans in the way they are.
It’s not like the Tea Partiers hate black people. It’s just that they’re shockingly willing to believe the appalling horseshit fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid.
They're the sort of people who can suck up the nation's tax dollars, while pretending to buy Ayn Rand's Atlas, holding up the entire world on their shoulders, desperate to shrug off the riffraff for a change. Even when they themselves are the actual riffraff. The less-educated conservatives who will vote for Perry and Bachmann see themselves as oppressed taxpayers even when they are in the 47% that Perry and Bachmann promised to tax, because they don't see themselves as a member of that economic class. The "poor who pay no taxes" aren't them: they're of a different race, in a different place filled with rap music and urban blight. They're not real Americans who drive trucks and SUVs, and do their shopping at Wal-Mart.
Progressive elites can spend all day and all night proving how wrong Perry and Bachmann are about the economic facts. But they're wasting their time....
Yep
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