Fine, you think that progressive taxation is class warfare and that the poor put upon rich people need to be protected from the tax structure going back to what it was under Reagan.
Those put upon rich people have legitimate means of redress. They know the proposed changes, they can lobby, they can vote. If they don't like it, they can form groups to oppose it and even consider moving elsewhere. I'm all for debates about appropriate tax policy. I'll call you an idiot and a crybaby for opposing the tax reforms currently being proposed but regardless it is an entirely separate and distinct debate no matter how much you want to claim otherwise. There is legal power within the structure set forth by the Constitution and the laws of the land, carried out in public by elected representatives. Then there is illegal power, carried out in an extra-judicial fashion, secretly, by a small group of unelected and unaccountable shadow figures. Those two things are not alike Robert. Judah On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > Secrecy is not the issue. Abuse of power is the issue. In fact, isn't it far > worse when the government openly punishes a select group of people - not > only punishes them but actively encourages the public to get behind the > punishment? The top 2% of taxpayers - isn't that several million people who > will be affected? Why are we allowing the government to selectively punish > several million people? And how far is it from punishing the top 2% to the > top 10%, to everyone over the median wage? Not very far. > > Obama is using the economic mess to push a socialist legislative agenda he > would have pushed regardless. His demagoguery toward capitalism generally > and Wall Street specifically are taking a huge toll on the economy, and he > seems to not care in the slightest that he is strangling the golden goose > with his rhetoric and his agenda. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290518 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
