Skull Pilot
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- Nov 17, 2007
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Come on Moonbats, there have to some of you out there who will try to tell us that a flat tax will ruin the country.
Where are you?
This "Moonbat" is concerned with the long term effect of a flat tax. Our nation has always returned to the center, when our elected officials overreach to the left or to the right the American voter produces a correction. We have seen this time and again in national as well as state and local elections.
In less than a generation of a flat tax, the very wealthy + the Citizens United decision will have the ability to transform us from a democratic republic into a pure plutocracy, where the party of the wealthy will make the laws and, by controlling a majority on the Supreme Court modify even our Constitution to suit their needs, at the expense of the hoi polloi.
History suggests such a transformation can have only one consequence, one most feared by the rich and powerful. See 1789, 1848, 1917 and the Spring of 2011 for a few notable examples.
Of course a flat tax is not a sufficient and necessary cause of civil unrest; examples of civil unrest are well known in our country during the lifetime of most baby boomers. Efforts to suppress voting rights, to undermine public education and to cut the salary and benefits of working men and women while defending millionaires and billionaires is another cause leading us eventually to a plutocratic America.
Or to our own "Arab Spring". Think about it (those of you who can).
Puhlease.
So your justification for a punitive tax code is that you're afraid of the big bad rich people?
With all the extra money that will be injected into the economy there will be a lot more opportunity for people to get rich.