One of the issues that continues to limit Progressive's ability to win the communication battle and the message-wars is that we often lack snappy terms on which to base our agruments and advocacy. Instead we end up using the terms that the rightwingers have come up with. As a result we often are at a huge disadvantge because we are arguing a policy rellying on their terms. Of course the mainstream media does not help at all because they just pick it directly from drudge, fox, and talk radio.
One of the opportunities we have is give name to the Bush tax cut for people who make more than US 250,000. All suggested names should reflect the greed of the potential recepients who demand it and also the lack of shame of elected politicians who are pushing it.
Here are my preliminary names I would give to the Bush tax cut for the rich
.. the 2nd Yatch Tax cut (to enable the very rich to buy a second yatch);
.. the Yatch-replacement tax cut (to enable the very rich to buy a new yatch);
.. the summer cottage tax cut (to enable the very rich to buy a summer cottage);
.. the greedy people tax cut (to celebrate the level of greed that a demand of such tax represents)
.. the Chinese-Yuan-Cash-and-Donate-to-the-rich tax (to acknowledge that in order for the rich to get this tax cut, we as a country must borrow from China
.. the no-nmoney-for-healthcare-but-yes-to-rich-people tax cut (to mock these politicians who used the past 2 years to argue that the country has no money to extend health care to the 37 million Americans who lack it but that we now must find money to give to the rich)
.. the trickle-down-fallacy tax cut (to acknowldge that if the argument is that such a tax would lead to more jobs then where are those jobs since it as been in existence?)
.. the deficit exploding tax cut (to acknowledge the economic damae such a tax would do in terms of deficts)
of course most of you are more creative than me so I am sure that youcan come up with a better name that we can publicize so go for it!!
Update: someone has suggested that a few of these could be fowarded to the participants of the One-Nation Match on Washington happening on October 2 2010 and theey could be used in the crowd