Posted by
Bullpen on Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:17:33 PM
Wealthy Americans aren’t people, you know. I always seem to forget this in non-election years. Thank God we have Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to remind us. Once you are successful, you lose your soul. It’s just the way the world works. We’ve all seen the movies and everyone knows how true to real life Hollywood is.
Because someone has more money, they owe the rest of us a larger percentage of it. Also, they are personally responsible for all the suffering and failures you have ever had in your life. It’s just common sense. After all, we are all equal in the eyes of the law. However, some are more equal than others. In my studies I have found that fictional tales like that of Robin Hood should be the basis of our nation’s economic policy. We need to make it clear to our people that success will not be tolerated.
There are two things that are assured in this life, and that is death and taxes. So why not just kill two birds with one stone and tax the wealthy to death?
It’s time to repeal across the board tax cuts that are clearly only for the rich. It is obvious that our government sets a certain amount of money, starts handing a ton of money to the people at the top tax brackets and kicks out whatever is left to the common man. Never you mind percentages that say otherwise. The important thing is that you should FEEL like the wealthy owe you and the world something extra for having more legally obtained income.
Class warfare and an 'Us versus Them' mentality is exactly what we need to unite us all. We need to raise the tax burden on the wealthy because…well why not? They have a lot of money, and we want a lot of money so we can spend it on…um…Congressional hearings on um…an aging baseball pitcher…or something. Anyway, this seems like a perfect match and just plain good public policy. What the hell are we doing if we aren't erring on the side of communism and socialism?
As Rodney King once intended to say, “Can’t we all just get along...as long as we are in the same lower income tax brackets?”