God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terrorism. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die. And anyone who speaks up in opposition to this injustice risks being called unpatriotic by those who give up absolutely nothing themselves. Patriotism is defined as a solicitude for tidy incomes, a belief in anything Rush Limbaugh says on the radio and a demand that those in charge of the country never be held accountable for their mistakes.
Yeah.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.05.04 at 12:47 AM
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And to think that FDR back during The Big One was backing a proposal for a 100% marginal tax rate on incomes above, IIRC, $25,000 (in 2004 dollars, about $300,000).
Repugnicans don't know the meaning of the word "sacrifice". Or rather, they do, but they believe, to paraphrase Leona Helmsley, that sacrifice is for little people.
