TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 22. Whose Tax Cuts?. Robert B. Reich.
Make them choose between a payroll tax cut for more than 130 million American working families, worth about $5,000 to each family, or a tax cut for the richest 2 percent of American families, worth millions to each of their do-nothing kids. If Republicans are too dumb to choose a payroll tax cut over an estate tax cut, Democrats should blast them. Use it as ammo for 2004. Make it a central part of the Democratic message. Yell about it on television, radio. Bellow about it from rooftops.
Yeah, talking economics is kinda boring, but do you think this might work?
Found on the web:
“The course of this conflict is not known; yet its outcome is certain. And
we know that God is not neutral.” — George Bush
“This is an amazing assertion. When I think about the real or imagined
parties involved in that bizarre holy war that is about to begin, I find it
difficult to make a distinction about where fanaticism is stronger.” – Fidel
Castro, on the subject of Bush’s quote [above]
Straight Goods – Canada’s independent on-line source of news you can use
“It’s often said that people just won’t go into politics any more because of the intense media scrutiny one faces for even the smallest indiscretion in one’s past. In fact, the media are temperamental beasts; fierce one day, gentle as lambs the next.Certainly the media showed its soft side last week. As George W. Bush piously observed Veterans Day, media pundits somehow restrained themselves from pointing to the irony that the U.S. Commander-in-Chief, who’s sometimes referred to as a “former fighter pilot,” has an embarrassing military past. His records show that for months at a time during the Vietnam War, Bush could be classified as, at best, “absent without leave” (AWOL) or, at worst, as an army deserter.
This would be equivalent to the media withholding comment as former U.S. President Bill Clinton publicly espoused the virtues of marital fidelity.”
Can anyone explain why almost no mainstream American media has covered this? I mean, even to expose it as some sort of hoax (if, indeed, it is).
(buzzflash. I’ve linked to this article a few days ago asw well, when it was printed in The Star)
From an email:
People overlook that while administrations may change the bureaucracy
(sorry about the spelling–that’s a tough one for me) that lies
underneath remains the same. That’s the scary thing. I think a healthy
mistrust of the government–no matter its leanings–is a good thing.
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is “we can’t trust the
goverment”.
Another thing that really makes me angry is all those people say “I
don’t care; I’ve got nothing to hide.” Plenty of people who died in
myriad fascist governments had nothing to hide.
Our own paranoia has accomplished what Osama bin Laden and his minions could not with hijacked airplanes and vague threats about future attacks – these fears have forced America to abandon its principles and create a police state.”
“Not exactly a liberal website” as Buzzflash points out in their link and it’s true, and it reminds me of a snippet of conversation l was in last night.
To wit: it’s all well and good for (us) liberals to be outraged at this egregious removal of our freedoms, but what about the NRA and like-minded organizations? Why are they not raising a fuss about the idea that the government will be tracking their gun purchases and inventories even more closely.
Maybe it’s time for all of us to befriend them…