Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"""the oppressed affluent""""

Krugman/NYTimes:
"""""Tax-cut advocates used to pretend that they were mainly concerned about helping typical American families. Even tax breaks for the rich were justified in terms of trickle-down economics, the claim that lower taxes at the top would make the economy stronger for everyone.


These days, however, tax-cutters are hardly even trying to make the trickle-down case. Yes, Republicans are pushing the line that raising taxes at the top would hurt small businesses, but their hearts don’t really seem in it. Instead, it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. I mean, look at the expenses of people in that income class — the property taxes they have to pay on their expensive houses, the cost of sending their kids to elite private schools, and so on. Why, they can barely make ends meet.


And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: it’s their money, and they have the right to keep it. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes — but that was a long time ago.


The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.""""""

Krugman tries, at least. 

(a hint, bozonius: read through this a dozen times or so and practice writing some prose sans your usual phony, pseudo-liberal pathos.  Maybe, just maybe in a few years you could actually get your letters to the editor published in Podunkville Times)

2 comments:

Perezoso said...

Bozonius!

We posted a few comments on the DU "journal" of eso pedazo de blanca-basura. Uno regalo! He started whining like a byatch...Troll! The DU people were in agreement --a complete phony, conservative. His writing's pure mierda. And the punk has the nerve to use an Abbie Hoffman icon, when it should be like a....Kissinger

J said...

I wouldn't bother reading its sentimental drivel. What's amazing is that quite a few humans actually believe that steroids-binging mormon goon has anything of value to say, when it should be just locked the F. down, ASAP.

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