(Tonight's post is by AnonymousNFS)
We drop to 12th in rate of college grads. We close school in Hawaii on
Fridays. In California, state workers stay home. In DC, metro
escalators lie broken and dormant, while people climb down the stairs
and ride in 30-year-old cars that are no longer safe. Around the
country, teachers, firefighters, nurses and others worry about keeping
their jobs.
The reason, they tell us, is money. There isn’t enough of it.
At the same time, a tiny few of the super rich pledge to give away
half of their money, at least when they die. Perhaps it is in
anticipation of this private dole that the Republicans fight to keep
the Bush tax cuts for the super wealthy?
Does no one else think this is nuts?
We should not just restore the pre-Bush tax rates; we should restore
taxes to the rates of the 1960s. We should open our schools, pay our
cops, help our young people graduate, and stop an insanity that--in a
land where free once meant equal--borders on criminal.
What I don't get is why these rich guys giving away half their loot to charity is some big deal. My question is "Which charity?" Why not plow it back into the U.S. Treasury?
ReplyDeleteBec this way the super rich can CHOSE who will be blessed with their largess. The treasury might look at the needs of--cough, cough--America.
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It's always been that way to a degree. How much is enough? That's the question. The rich get richer and the rest of us pay.
ReplyDeleteIt has always amazed me that Congress has been unable to give representation for the District. As long as I can recall, public schools, public housing are scandalously underfunded. This is our capitol city, for goodness sake. And now the Metro is falling apart!
ReplyDeleteGuess this was the model for what is occurring around the country these days. Even Greenspan thinks the Bush tax cuts should be eliminated. Oh, NOW he thinks so!