Republicans’ “job-creating” spending cuts destroyed 370,000 jobs.
68% of millionaires are OK with paying more taxes.
John Boehner complains that the President is overstepping his constitutional authority. In the next breath, Boehner says the President has given up on governing and is doing nothing but campaigning. Our President is one talented guy — a slacker authoritarian?
An article at Bloomberg/Business Week explains why flat tax plans don’t perform as advertised. But Stephen Moore at the Wall Street Journal think they work just fine —
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry must be onto something with his flat tax. Liberals wasted no time on Tuesday shooting arrows at the Texas governor’s proposal, labeling it a giant-sized tax cut for millionaires and billionaires that’s paid for with higher taxes on the middle class.
See? Flat tax plans annoy liberals. What more do you want?
Obama administration spokesman Ben LaBolt said the flat tax “would shift a greater share of taxes away from large corporations and the wealthiest onto the backs of the middle class.” Mr. Obama’s team just can’t get away from the class warfare theme.
And on and on. Moore doesn’t refute any of the criticisms of flat tax plans; he just thinks they’re trivial little details that shouldn’t concern anyone.
Here, let me correct Mr. Moore’s typo: “Mr. Obama’s team just can’t get away from noticing that we are engaged in class warfare against the 99%.”
What’s the definition of insanity again?
I mean, besides listening to, or voting for Conservatives?
Oh yeah, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Or, like I said – listening to, or voting for Conservatives.
Feel the wealth trickling down!
Just don’t eat the brown wealth, you’ll get sick – and do try to keep you head above the yellow wealth, or you’ll drown.
The Republicans are a party of Lucy’s, hoping enough of us are still Charlie Browns.
And I’m not betting against them.
For damn sure, there’ no “Fountain of Youth.” But it sure looks like there’s a ‘Fountain of Stupid’ – and just keeps spewing and spewing.
As for class warfare: it’s only warfare when the victim resists; until then it’s enslavement.
WSJ=FOX. I get the same blood pressure rush from both sources. Now that I have had to type both their names, I must go and take my benazepril.
Woah! That WSJ link exploded all over the post!
My recollection of the Wall Street Journal from the 1980s is that the editorial page was always conservative, but the news reporting was top-notch. I think that has changed since Murdoch took it over in 2007 – basically, the entire paper is now an editorial page.
I’ve had the impression that Murdoch’s other paper, The New York Post, is written for an audience under 40, while the WSJ is for those over 40. I’m not talking about age, but rather IQ.
However, in view of this latest drivel, I might change my opinion.
I’d say the New York Post is written for drooling Neanderthals who are barely bright enough to tie their shoes, whereas the Wall Street Journal is written for people in the normal human intelligence range looking for reassurance they aren’t really the twisted greedy bastards they actually are.
A flat tax would put about a billion H&R Block employees out of business, not to mention the hoards of Accountants and tax atty’s.
A much simpler method would just abolish the IRS, don’t tax anybody, drink tainted koolaid and just friggin’ die.
(of course, I’m ROTFG laughing.)
Who would support the military if we have no taxes? ‘We gonna have a bake sale twice a month to raise the dough?
These people are outta their tree……….
See Bartcop for some great cartoons!
I’ve never heard anything of substance from Moore, except pure shilling.
OT, do see Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges interviewed on Charlie Rose.
Hmmm folks, the poll which shows a substantial majority of millionaires are OK with higher taxes is ALSO from the WSJ. In an earlier and recent post about the Pizza Guy, and how he’s getting more air time in Fox than anyone else, included air time of dissenting conservatives who find Cain incompetent by any objective measure.
Obviously, Cain has the blessing of the Koch brothers and a lot of the brass at Fox. But not everyone agrees among conservative talking heads. Hypotheticaly, if Fox could broker the GOP/Tea Party nomination for Cain over Romney… and if the statistical evidence is that Cain is unelectable in the general election – (that’s my opinion – somebody ask Nate if the numbers support me)….. But accept the premise – 1) Cain gets the nomination..2) Cain goes down in humiliating defeat. 3) The powers-that-be fully know now that #1 and #2 are true.
What’s the point? Is it possible that the man behind the curtain wants Obamas to win this time? As a trigger & an excuse for insurrection in 2013? Or because they are in a long game (2016) and Romney winning the White House and serving and failing would discredit the GOP?
Doug — my sense of things is that the Republican establishment is splintered, and no one person or faction is in charge. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them would rather Obama won the election than Romney, if only because they seem to really, really hate Romney. I believe it’s also the case that at least some of the big money puppet masters, such as the Kochs and Richard Mellon Scaife, are nuttier than a pecan farm.
Doug, I’m with you and have been wondering the same thing for quite a while now.
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Republicans should really deep-six their constant referral to ‘class warfare.’ It only keeps the warfare staged by the elite 30 years ago against the rest of us at the forefront of our brains.
(Cain made yet again another of his tinker-toy recommendations for how to solve our problems – get rid of the entire government. Since he’s running for president and the president is part of the ‘government’ is he really telling us that if elected the job he is elected for will no longer exist?)