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chris_gerribLike the title says:
A) To nobody's surprise, Herman Cain's 999 Plan raises taxes on all but the very richest (see graph below) They get a tax cut. This is SOP from the Republicans - Cain's just got a catchy marketing phrase to sell it.
B) I think the Occupy Wall Street crowd is in many ways as illogical as the Tea Partiers, but here's what they are upset about. (Hint: Massive income inequalities and unemployment while corporate CEO wages and profits are skyrocketing.)
C) From E. J. Dionne, a defense of liberal's tax views. Liberals believe that the wealthy should pay more in taxes than “the rest of us” because the well-off have benefited the most from our social arrangements. This has nothing to do with treating citizens as if they were cows incapable of self-government. As for the regulatory state, our free and fully competent citizens have long endorsed a role for government in protecting consumers from dangerous products, including tainted beef
A) To nobody's surprise, Herman Cain's 999 Plan raises taxes on all but the very richest (see graph below) They get a tax cut. This is SOP from the Republicans - Cain's just got a catchy marketing phrase to sell it.
B) I think the Occupy Wall Street crowd is in many ways as illogical as the Tea Partiers, but here's what they are upset about. (Hint: Massive income inequalities and unemployment while corporate CEO wages and profits are skyrocketing.)
C) From E. J. Dionne, a defense of liberal's tax views. Liberals believe that the wealthy should pay more in taxes than “the rest of us” because the well-off have benefited the most from our social arrangements. This has nothing to do with treating citizens as if they were cows incapable of self-government. As for the regulatory state, our free and fully competent citizens have long endorsed a role for government in protecting consumers from dangerous products, including tainted beef
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Date: 2011-10-19 06:12 pm (UTC)(note, for the sarcasm challenged, that was it.)