Why Can't We Talk About TAXING THE RICH?

The Most Successful (and Destructive) Propaganda Campaign Ever

   Have you noticed? In our budget discussions we-the-people are like a one-legged man.... ...Trying to dance with a huge, two-legged woman. Half the equipment we need for movement is missing. Simply gone. Our dancing partner has more equipment than she needs. There could be four horses under that tent of a dress. Guess who leads?

And one after another of us, including really smart people amid the dummies, don't seem to notice the situation. The "one legged man" - the middle class and poorer folks seeking a solution for our ailing national, state and local government budgets - is in a dance with absolute apocalypse. A strong, fair, intelligent, problem-solving dance (discussion) is necessary for us to have any hope of avoiding this apocalypse.

So who is our dance partner? Not that good old foursome, Conquest, War, Famine and Death. So who? How about Oligarchs and their Lobbyists, Propagandists, and Purchased Politicans?









For sure they have a bunch more money that we-the-people do. Hardly fair, dance or discussion wise.

So what's our missing leg all about? How did we lose it?

Missing Leg = Any talk about TAXES. Our good leg? All the talk about CUTTING SPENDING.

There has never been a real discussion about budget problems where INCOME was left out of the income/outgo situation. There never will be. The whole idea that budgets can be adjusted without discussing expenses AND income is ridiculous on its face. This is common sense, logic, rational thought that JUST DOESN'T GET MENTIONED much these days.

Who did it? Who make talking about raising income through taxation ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for a polititian? Who inflicted the wound on our discourse, and cut off one leg of our salvation? People like GROVER!Grover Norquist heads "Americans for Tax Reform." Their logo, you might notice shows the Boston Tea Party. Hmmmmm...
They - and their ilk (there's a BUNCH of ilk out there) despise taxes. They demonize taxes. They are powerful, very well funded PROPAGANDISTS against the very basis of how democracy funds itself. ATR's support comes from the very wealthy, the international corporations and the supremely selfish. But they are such good PROPAGANDISTS that they have recruited millions of middle and lower class souls with this mindless message:

"The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized."

No more REGULATIONS! (On health, safety, financial exploitation, monopolies, protecting nature, etc. etc.) Oh no, they are "controlling our lives" with taxation.

The end result of this huge propaganda victory by the Ronald Reaganizing of America is the declining middle class and that huge and growing class below the poverty line, a national infrastructure that is falling to pieces, our national competitiveness in decay and wealth polarization that is pitiless and tragic.

So screw on your other leg and start throwing punches at the corporatization of America. Start talking about raising taxes on those who benefit the most from our nation. Corporations that avoid all taxes, super rich people who avoid most taxes, lobbyist who buy loopholes like they were donut holes... that whole gang needs some good pokes in the nose! Pay up, ye of great wealth!

Just to show you I'm serious, read "Tax Me!"



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