Budget Crisis? Duh, Tax the Rich!

[marmar]

from Consortium News:




Budget Crisis? Duh, Tax the Rich!

By Robert Parry
February 24, 2011


A great tragedy of the United States is that the answer to many of the country’s domestic problems is obvious, even simple, but can’t be done because of a dominating political/media dynamic that rules that solution out.

The solution to these many problems – from the budget deficit to crumbling infrastructure, from mass joblessness to income inequality, from environmental degradation to educational shortfalls -- is to raise taxes on the rich and to use that money to get the United States back on track and advancing toward the future.

And there are clear justifications for doing so, from practicality to fairness. Though many multi-millionaires fancy themselves self-made men (and women), the truth is that they all have profited from investments that American taxpayers have made over the decades, and even centuries.

For instance, President Dwight Eisenhower’s inter-state highway system enabled companies to move their goods more cheaply; President John Kennedy’s space program spurred the growth in computer sciences; the Pentagon created the Internet (yes, with critical support from Al Gore when in Congress), which revolutionized commerce and spread information. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/022411.html

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Whaddya gonna DO about it? Huh?

Here's a good start:

http://www.usuncut.org/actions

Check out Saturday, 26 Feb 2011 (today) and see what's going on near where you live. Other events are upcoming, BTW.

[snot]

5. +1

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. Good article!

:kick:

[aquart]

3. No man should be so rich he has nothing left to buy but his government.

[txlibdem]

6. +++

Great post. I'm replying so I can find it later... I will probably quote you a number of times in the future.

[ladjf]

4. We can't wait around for the rich bastards to cooperate with the

raising of their taxes. They will squeal like pigs , but tax their greedy, sick asses.

[grasswire]

7. they are hoarders: sometimes you have to intervene for their own best interest!

I just realized that after watching Hoarders last night and then reading your statement tonight.

The rich are hoarders. They are ruining our national home. They won't be reasoned with, and so those of sound mind must intervene and help them -- against their will if necessary.

[ladjf]

9. You have accurately defined their mental condition and the

problems it is causing for everyone. Their victims need to clearly understand what they are dealing with. There are far too many people that admire the very rich as being somehow deserving of the wealth they have acquired.

I have no clear idea how their "hoarding sickness" is going to be curtailed. But, somehow, someway there is a way to turn this terrible social condition around.

Keep spreading the word. The more people that understand, the better.

[handmade34]

8. rec

"As Justice Louis D. Brandeis noted more than 60 years ago, "we can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

:patriot: