|
Hippiekinkster -> RE: Born Rich (9/22/2010 11:04:42 PM)
|
The rationaile, which I fully agree with, for estate taxes is that it prevents precisely the sort of hereditary oligarchic aristocracy which the US now suffers from.
Rightards branded them "death taxes" and invented myths about Maw and Paw Kettle losing the family farm which was, and is, a complete lie. Taxing high-net-worth estates prevents the purchase of politicians with large sums of money filtered through 527 organizations. Google Richard Mellon Scaife. The Koch bros. The Wyly bros. They buy right-wing politicians primarily to maintain their aristocracy. They find "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato institute, which produce highly subjective "policy papers" and other pseudo-authoritative propaganda so as to influence politicians and the "conservative" public.
I am truly baffled by the phenomenon of right-wing truck drivers/stock clerks/office managers, and so on, who rabidly support the "divine right" of the American Aristocracy to "tax" them in the form of lowering their wages by Union-busting, off-shoring, and "cost-cutting"; by slowly but surely reducing their health care benefits; by obtaining obscene amounts of Federal welfare in the form of subsidies for the companies owned by the rich (which includes the biggest welfare rip-off of all, the military); by jacking up the interest rates and fees the rich-owned companies take from people every day; by forcing workers to accept fewer hours so they can avoid paying overtime; by extorting tax and other concessions from municipalities by threatening to relocate their stores and pjants outside of city limits; and any number of other tricks which guarantee "trickle up" capitalism.
Back in the 50s and 60s, when unions were strong, people could support a family with only one wage-earner. Now both partners muct work, and often the older offspring have to bring in a little cash as well, to pay for the goods and services whose costs exceed the growth of their income. Some moronic foil-hat fool on Yay-hoo was pissing and moaning about the 19% increase in Health insurance premiums he's seen under Obama. My premiums have gone up an average of 24% per annum, and that's with gradualling increasing my deductible, which is now $10K. "Regulation bad", the bobbleheads babble. "Too many regulations! Unfettered Capitalismo better than sliced bread!" So when gasoline goes up to $3.50 a gallon, from $1.50, they scream "where's the government?" Or they blame Obama, when, in fact, prices peaked just before the 2008 elections, under Warmonger George.
The dumb bastard rightards whine about the taxes they pay (some of the lowest of any industrialized nation) while they bend over, AND supply the Crisco, to get fist-fucked by the Private Sector.
The majority are way beyond cognitive dissonance - they're deep into cognitive destruction territory. It's like most of the white, adolt male population of the US got some subliminal message from Rush and Faux News to Trepan themselves so they immediately ran out and bought door-lock drill bits.
|
|
|
|
