There was a wonderful line once in an old movie. A very savvy and skilled old billiards player, a hustler, was about to take the money from a slick and smart-alecky young man who had just ridden into town. And as the hustler chalked his cue stick, and leaned over the table to take his first shot, he calmly and quietly said: “Young feller, the sharp edge of fate is about to descend upon your red hick’s neck.”
The sharp edge of fate is about to descend upon all our red hicks’ necks if we do not wake up. The biggest problem in the country today, one far greater than health care reform or the stimulus, is deficit reduction. I don’t mean the deficit. That’s merely the problem. The deficit is really only the bill. The question, the real problem is–who is going to pay the bill? Your share of the bill, should you accept it, and you don’t have any choice and the share owed by each of the roughly 305,000,000 Americans, is $40,000.
Did you get $40,000 worth of benefit from the deficit? Did you even get lower cost and totally reliable health care? Under merely the first of George W. Bush’s tax cuts and merely in the first year of those tax cuts, every millionaire got about $40,000 in tax breaks. And now you owe $40,000. You may say that, well, you really don’t have to pay it. It is merely an accounting figure, something on some government piece of paper. But it isn’t.
Your government is holding meetings right now in Washington, planning how to get that $40,000 from you that you graciously gave to all those millionaires. What do you mean you didn’t give it to them? You voted for George W. Bush. You may have voted for Reagan. You voted for Republicans to run the House and the Senate. They weren’t encumbered by “rules” about filibusters. They went right ahead with simple majorities and cut taxes for the rich and for corporations. Our tax revenues are now what they were 50 or 60 years ago. And the government is bigger. And thank god it is or we would all be living in tent cities right now instead of, shamefully, a few million.
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http://www.populistdaily.com/politics/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-pay-for-wars-and-millionaire-tax-breaks.htmlPretty good rant.