I wish I thought that more people were reading and talking about this article: thank you for doing so.
And of course the article is an effort to rouse political pressure to alter the tax code so as to correct the tilt of the national financial plumbing so that it doesn't so automatically flood the pockets of the wealthy, which would change the political possibilities. (And then there's funding public goods and services. I miss those.)
I read comments like these and wish to hell I'd phrased the piece that prompted it like that -- "tilt the national financial plumbing so that..." That's gold.
Typo: "By all means, let’s protect the privacy of Americans, but c’mon on."
Also, nice reference to FSF: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different." - FSF "The Rich Boy" 1926
It's so frustrating and unfair to the many paying taxes and struggling to pay their bills. The dems need to move beyond talk.
It’s acceptable to some elected officials that rich people pay very little and sometimes nothing in taxes because in return some of the excess flows back into their campaign coffers. 😡
I wish I thought that more people were reading and talking about this article: thank you for doing so.
And of course the article is an effort to rouse political pressure to alter the tax code so as to correct the tilt of the national financial plumbing so that it doesn't so automatically flood the pockets of the wealthy, which would change the political possibilities. (And then there's funding public goods and services. I miss those.)
I read comments like these and wish to hell I'd phrased the piece that prompted it like that -- "tilt the national financial plumbing so that..." That's gold.
Typo: "By all means, let’s protect the privacy of Americans, but c’mon on."
Also, nice reference to FSF: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different." - FSF "The Rich Boy" 1926
So very close. I love the word "on" so much I'm going to use it frequently.
It's so frustrating and unfair to the many paying taxes and struggling to pay their bills. The dems need to move beyond talk.
It’s acceptable to some elected officials that rich people pay very little and sometimes nothing in taxes because in return some of the excess flows back into their campaign coffers. 😡