Leveling the Field
Trying to offset the actions of the Federal Government with their tax giveaway to the rich at the expense of the other 97% of us, states have begun marching to their own drummers. Even some of the red states have had enough, including Florida, which has made their Governor unhappy.
California began taxing the very rich last year to help pay for mental health. This year there will bea similar proposition to pay for pre-school for all kids.
The article makes the point that it isn't just the poor who suffer as a result of the giveaways although they certainly do. It's the struggling, working middle class who is paying with their taxes for the government's largesse to the extremely wealthy.
Not enough, but it's a start until we can do something about the greed in DC.
From TomPaine.
California began taxing the very rich last year to help pay for mental health. This year there will bea similar proposition to pay for pre-school for all kids.
The article makes the point that it isn't just the poor who suffer as a result of the giveaways although they certainly do. It's the struggling, working middle class who is paying with their taxes for the government's largesse to the extremely wealthy.
Not enough, but it's a start until we can do something about the greed in DC.
From TomPaine.
posted by Granny @ 4/14/2006 09:15:00 PM
3 Comments:
At Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:29:00 AM ,
Unknown said...
The middle class is gradually being eliminated. In a totalitarian regime, a middle class is not desirable. Today, the majority of the middle class is finding itself pinched harder and harder.
A totalitarian regime doesn't need people with disposable income (to fund rebellion)or free time to foment one. They need a working class so poor they need to keep their noses to the grindstone and too tired to kick up a ruckus - and ofcourse taxed to death.
At Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:54:00 AM ,
Granny said...
And when you have a country with no middle class, eventually you have revolution.
Although the big guys have the nukes. Pitchforks and blunderbusses wouldn't do much.
At Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:52:00 AM ,
Granny said...
PT you're correct and the middle class will vote against their own best interests.
I tried to unionize an office once. No one except me was interested. They thought of themselves as aligned with management even though we were paid starvation wages (less than the unionized janitors). Go figure.
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