They want to lower the maximum tax rate from 35% to 28%. Oh my God, big corporations and rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes like the rest of us. What were we thinking? We should just all gather around and kiss their collective ass.
Give me a break.
I read in Newsweek that Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), of the House, is a big believer in the foolish and discredited ideas of the late Ayn Rand, who believed that those who own businesses create wealth and deserve to keep all of it. The rest of us should subsist on crumbs that fall from their tables.
Basically these right wing Republicans and Tea Party types believe in a feudal society. They want to turn the clock back. Way back.
So let's all sing together: Screw oh screw the poor, and kiss the asses of the rich.
Who wants to be a millionaire? We do! Who wants to screw the poor? Hurray!
Reminds me of lines from a poem by Charles Baudelaire, "Litany to Satan":
Thy awful name is written as with pitch
On the unrelenting foreheads of the rich.
But, ah, what can we do? The rich are always with us. A burden we all carry.
I say, if you want to pay less taxes and have a smaller government, go live in Somalia. Let me know how you like it.
-- Roger
© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle
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