I find few things as perverse as working class folks, that is families making less than a hundred grand a year, arguing that the rich and corporations should have larger tax breaks and more money. We all want more money. Indeed, as Daniel Defoe once wrote, "Every man would be a tyrant if he could." At some point the amount of money some are making is obscene, and, I argue, thoroughly un-American. In fact, the amounts of money made and expended by corporate fat cats to influence our government is a far greater danger to America than Al Qa'eda could ever hope to be.
Take for example the obscene profits of the oil companies, while the rest of us juggle grocery bills or wonder at the end of a pay period how we will make it to work because of mounting gas prices. Exxon made 40 billion in profits last year, third year in a row. That's one company, for one year. Still they reaped even more money, billions in tax dollars for research they never really do. And then they pay a retiring CEO 300 million. Where are the Righties who complain about welfare and socialism for all the tax gifts to people already drowning in money?
This country was fought for by farmers and shopkeepers who fought on the front lines. The battlefields of the civil war and of the Second World War were drenched in working class blood We built this great nation, running railroads across country, marching for civil rights, and feeding the world. It was small family businesses, mom and pop places that gave small town America, and inner city neighborhoods character and culture. It was working class folks who built it all one brick at a time. B ut the Rightwing media would have us believe that hope and jobs and the future of America depends upon securing and expanding the wealth of a few. If we tax the corporations, they claim, who will create the jobs of tomorrow?
If that is true than we have become slaves and the country is already gone. So then the flag is a fraud, the constitution just words and the rest is merely to perserve order among drones and consumers. Is that the case, or is a new revolution necessary to return the country stolen from the people by a ruling class reminiscent of the King we shrugged off 200 years ago. Was the revolution a beginning to a new era of peace and freedom for mankind, or the evolution of corporate enslavement and fascism?
Its funny, the Righties claim that the wealthy pay 97% of the taxes in the country, while the rest of us losers, the 0ther 275 million Americans pay only 3%. Using the Rightie's math then the middle class doesn't have to pay taxes and things will be just fine. If the rich want to buy the country then they can pay for it with their tax money, but they will have to fight those of us who still claim it as a country by the people and for the people. We still hear the words of the declaration of independence and the revolutionary dictates of the constitution. Which are you, a free man or a slave?
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Only commie loving liberals who can't count higher then they have fingers and toe's and can't read the truth disagree with the FACTS !!!!!!
Thank GOD we have our GUN'S and GOD to save us from FOOLS !!!!!!!!!!
What is the truth and what are the facts in dispute? Did corporations exist in early United States?
I wish Joezsrepublicanpage would enlighten me so that I can become one of the great elites who do so much for this country besides shed blood, tears, and treasure.
First of all, I have never heard of the 3%. Although rich people expose loops in the law, and you are right about how the average person pays more taxes percentage wise that is a problem with the law. Secondly the statement about the fighting men, the only reason that happened is because a bunch of other farmers and shopkeepers in Germany and down South decided collectivly that they were better than other people because of their skin. Finally saying that rich people and oil execs are more of a threat is almost a joke, except for the fact is mocks our men and women in uniform....next time think before you spit crap out of your mouth buddy
Toady for the rich? Snivelling at the feet of the corporations? Is that the kind of America you want, or the kind of American you wish to be? As for the troops? The time has come for chickenhawk patriots to stop hiding behind their sacrifice. Try wearing the uniform and better still go and see what war is really like, as I did. The facts speak for themselves and this country is in real trouble, not from outside, but from inside. As far as the skin color comment...What?