The utter tone deafness of the republican party and its enablers can often be mind boggling. Witness the Detroit News regurgitating for the umpteenth time (yawn, yawn, yawn) how "fairness" can't be legislated through our tax code.
Horseshit.
Even worse, they drum up the usual republican fearmongering about how taxing the wealthy their fair share will put a stake in the economic recovery, despite all evidence to the contrary. Tax cuts do not stimulate the economy. Tax cuts for the rich do not trickle down. The greatest economic boom of many of our lifetimes--the Clinton economic expansion of the nineties--occurred after taxes were raised on the wealthy. But the piece de resistance of the News's idiotorial is their claim (typo or outright lie, you decide!) that the Bush tax cuts in 2003 created 8 million jobs--which is truly a miracle since the record shows Bush created just three million jobs over the course of his Presidency, the worst job creation record since W.'s mentor, Herbert Hoover. Tax cuts for the wealthy don't create jobs either.
But the one idea emanating from their idiotorial that I did really like was their idea that Willard should pounce all over Obama over his idea that millionaires should pay more in taxes. What a sight that would be--the two hundred million dollar man with his tax shelters in the Caymans and Swiss bank accounts telling those of us who live paycheck to paycheck why he should pay less in taxes than we do.
And when we've finished laughing we can vote to re-elect Obama and go back to whining about how moderate he is.
Peace,
emaycee
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