tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post7948689728721593864..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Paul Ryan's War on Poverty (Part Two)Bud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-90903262875040422912015-02-15T14:00:36.007-08:002015-02-15T14:00:36.007-08:00UPDATE:
The Next New Deal: The Politics of Respon...UPDATE:<br /><br />The Next New Deal: The Politics of Responsibility – Not Envy<br /><br />"The rich may imagine that blaming them for the struggles of the rest of us is driven by envy, but that’s their own conceit to make them feel good. Americans don’t resent the rich. While we might fantasize about winning the lottery, we are not consumed by jealousy. What most Americans understand is that they are struggling financially because the wealthy have rigged the economic and political system to benefit them at the expense of the rest of us. That’s not envy: it’s reality."<br /><br />http://www.nextnewdeal.net/politics-responsibility-%E2%80%93-not-envy<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-36743760056590563242015-02-15T06:54:51.544-08:002015-02-15T06:54:51.544-08:00Obama and Congress offer bogus rhetoric on tax ref...Obama and Congress offer bogus rhetoric on tax reform (February 9, 2015 by David Cay Johnston): "After decades of bogus proposals, how will we know when Washington begins to talk real tax reform, rather than more tax favors for the wealthy and politically connected? When they propose to scrap the whole system and start from scratch."<br /><br />[My comment] Besides the fact that half the members of Congress are millionaires themselves (and benefit from the low capital gains tax rate), they already rate in the top 1% with their annual congressional salaries of $174,000 a year.<br /><br />So it's hard to imagine they'd want to raise taxes on themselves. You can't even get them to raise the $118,500 income cap for Social Security payroll taxes because THEY TOO would have to pay more.<br /><br />Congress works for themselves, not the American people. Even well-meaning "newbies" get quickly corrupted by the system after they are first elected — when humbleness is quickly replaced by narcissism. <br /><br />"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."<br /><br />http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/obama-and-congress-offer-bogus-rhetoric-on-tax-reform.htmlBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com