The idea that raising the taxes of the wealthiest Americans is socialism is a complete farce, perpetuated by the right to pit the working class against the poor while the rich get richer and don't give a flying fuck about anyone below them.
Look at it this way. These CEOs with pay packages in the multi-millions could only have made this much money with the help of the American capitalist system. They couldn't have made these ridiculous wages in any other country, and they now whine because they may have to pay 5% more in taxes, which means they may occasionally have to choose Dom Perignon over Cristal. Excuse me while I break out my violin. These people benefited off of the way the American system is set up, and most of them avoid paying taxes anyway thanks to the help of tax loopholes that allow them to game the system in a way that is countless times more harmful than one or two of the right wing's mythical "welfare queens." To ask them to pay a larger share of an already vast fortune is far different than asking the working people of this country to shoulder the burden of higher taxes. This notion that the wealth will "trickle down" when we let the corporations and CEOs hold on to more of their money was a falsehood when Reagan and his puppet masters first uttered that gibberish almost 30 years ago, and it's even more so now. The effect higher taxes will have on the rich is unnoticeable on their balance sheets. For working people, it could mean the difference between sending a kid to college, or paying for the rising costs of health care and prescriptions.
What amazes me is that working class people still believe that the Democrats want to take their money and give it to "lazy poor people" as they like to characterize anyone who hits hard times and needs to swallow their pride and ask for government assistance, and their numbers are growing by the day. Of course there will always be those who will game the system by not working and continually living off of welfare, but to condemn the system because of the actions of a handful of individuals is no different than accusing all CEOs of being greedy crooks because of the actions of a few rogue robber barons. The fact is that some CEOs, and by proxy the GOP, have pulled the wool over the eyes of the working class, transferring their own indignation at helping the poor for whom they have so much disdain to working people who should have sympathy and understanding for the plight of people living on the margins of this precarious economy.
Meanwhile, the people who helped get us into this mess are being handed hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars so they can try again. Not one of the people responsible for the mess we're in now will feel even a nanosecond of economic inconvenience or uncertainty as a result of their arrogant, uncontrollable greed. They get a second chance to make it right. The same chance should be given to all Americans when times get tough, and for anyone to argue against that, while arguing for the bailouts, shows a level of hypocrisy that shocks and sickens me.
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