ScreamingEagle
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I have an idea for a monument in our nations capital. I envision a big bronze and granite statue that would honor an entire group of Americans who are true heroes, and unsung heroes at that.
It is time no, make that long past time to pay tribute to those this nation of ours owes a great debt; to those who give and give and give and in return get anything but our gratitude.
This is an idea whose time has finally come.
Right there, amongst the sacred national structures that honor great Americans, we need to build a shiny monument to (this is where the drum roll would come in) The Rich otherwise known in liberal circles as the filthy, no good, greedy, heartless rich.
President Obama compromises with Republicans and gives the wealthiest two percent of Americans a temporary respite from a tax hike and listening to the yelps of the progressives youd think he just tried to shut down WikiLeaks or something.
The Left is bawling about how we cant afford to give people who dont need it a tax break. This argument makes perfect sense, of course as long as income re-distribution is a central tenet in your theology. Never mind that liberals werent all that concerned about what we could afford when they passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus package that didnt stimulate very much or when they poured in billions of our tax dollars to bail out General Motors. Its only now that theyre concerned about budgets because those nasty rich folks are getting a break. But I dont want to pick a fight with my liberal friends over whether the wealthiest Americans deserve a tax break or not. I have come to praise The Rich, not to bury them.
I offer a few numbers to make my case:
Did you know that the top one percent of American wage earners (adjusted gross income) pay about 38 percent of all our federal personal taxes (according to the National Taxpayer Union)? The top one percent, by the way, account for 23.5 percent of all income a substantial amount, yes, but considerably less than 38 percent.
Or that the top five percent pay just under 60 percent?
Or that the top ten percent pay about 70 percent of all the personal income taxes collected in this great land of ours?
Thank God for Rich People | BernardGoldberg.com
It is time no, make that long past time to pay tribute to those this nation of ours owes a great debt; to those who give and give and give and in return get anything but our gratitude.
This is an idea whose time has finally come.
Right there, amongst the sacred national structures that honor great Americans, we need to build a shiny monument to (this is where the drum roll would come in) The Rich otherwise known in liberal circles as the filthy, no good, greedy, heartless rich.
President Obama compromises with Republicans and gives the wealthiest two percent of Americans a temporary respite from a tax hike and listening to the yelps of the progressives youd think he just tried to shut down WikiLeaks or something.
The Left is bawling about how we cant afford to give people who dont need it a tax break. This argument makes perfect sense, of course as long as income re-distribution is a central tenet in your theology. Never mind that liberals werent all that concerned about what we could afford when they passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus package that didnt stimulate very much or when they poured in billions of our tax dollars to bail out General Motors. Its only now that theyre concerned about budgets because those nasty rich folks are getting a break. But I dont want to pick a fight with my liberal friends over whether the wealthiest Americans deserve a tax break or not. I have come to praise The Rich, not to bury them.
I offer a few numbers to make my case:
Did you know that the top one percent of American wage earners (adjusted gross income) pay about 38 percent of all our federal personal taxes (according to the National Taxpayer Union)? The top one percent, by the way, account for 23.5 percent of all income a substantial amount, yes, but considerably less than 38 percent.
Or that the top five percent pay just under 60 percent?
Or that the top ten percent pay about 70 percent of all the personal income taxes collected in this great land of ours?
Thank God for Rich People | BernardGoldberg.com