Naughty Children Need to be Punished

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.counterpunch.org/larson07282011.html

So you don't like the way your Representatives and your Senators are acting? So you voted for Obama but now that you've seen his true colors you won't vote for him again? So you think the Tea Party is running the country?

Item: Airlines are absorbing the taxes they no longer collect because on Friday Congress failed to approve an extension of the budget for the Federal Aviation Administration. Instead of the $25 million a day normally collected in federal taxes, the airlines are simply adding these fees to the cost of their tickets. Isn't that what Conservatives want, fewer taxes so that American businesses can profit?

Item: According to the Pew Research Center, because of the economic downturn, "the median net worth of Hispanic households dropped by 66 percent and that of black households by 53 percent..." while that of "white households dropped by only 16 percent." The ratio of the net worth of white households to those of the other two groups now stands at 18 times that of a Hispanic family and 20 times that of a black family. Yet, what do both parties intend to cut—the social programs that affect those at the bottom and not those at the top.

Item: In April of this year, one in seven Americans, or almost 45 million, was on food stamps. The cost of the increasing number has grown to $65 billion last year from $35 billion two years earlier. But why should taxes be raised on the rich who didn't create this situation? (Obama meekly calls it asking the rich to pay "a little more.")

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