Finally the right have their talking point to try and keep selling the Bush tax fraud:
Rather than accept a bipartisan compromise to extend current tax rates for several years, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have spent the last few weeks scheming to find a way to raise taxes on the wealthy while posturing as defenders of the middle class. We suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the harmful economic consequences of raising taxes on small businesses and investors are less important to the Democrats than old-school class politics.
Yep, that good old bipartisan compromise where the Republican party get everything they demand, how fucking original. Those poor rich folks cannot defend themselves, even though they have bought the Republican Party and tried to buy the last elections; with some success I might add.
Bad bad poor folks for starting the class war eh?
Look morons I know well how this works as I come more from the privileged class than anywhere else. Just stop this crap right now.
I call it protectionism of privilege and it has always been the methodology, grab as much as you can and fuck anyone else, and of course we do it with the appropriate panache and impeccable good taste. Dirty our hands in the battle? One jests, we get our servants in congress to do the dirty work. Then we can turn round and say how much we give to charity by cutting out the middle man; government. Polish up the halo Janet, I'm going to need it at tonight's din dins in my honor; I do hope the emeralds wont clash.
The president’s handling of this issue is particularly disappointing. Shortly after the election, the White House signaled that it would be open to cooperating with Republicans to keep taxes low.
Now saying the president went back on his word to capitulate totally to your demands, isn't that delightful, especially when nothing of the sort was offered.Trying to paint your opponent as weak because they resist your evident charm, simply delicious.
Not only do businesses face uncertainty on taxes, they don’t know for sure how they’ll be affected by Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform.
Good god man! What do we pay out accountants and lawyers to for? Why the lazy so and so's.
I do wish the right wing would just stop it, a nefarious tangle they are weaving that only benefits on tiny group of individuals and families. Whilst I believe in giving to charity is a good thing, and Americans are generous in this regard; there would however be less need for charity if our society was more equitable. Would you rather have charity or be able to provide for yourself, and save charity for when it is needed the most? I would prefer that charity was not needed at all.
There is a fundamental clash of ideology:
On one side there is a belief that the rich need to be made richer and have more power to decide how the wealth of the nation is divided.
The other which believes it is society's right to do so via an elected government.
It is a fundamental clash of ideas and has been going on since time immemorial, and it becomes a class war when one group wants it all.
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have been corrected the full quote by Jefferson should be:
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God."
- Letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826