I'm watching President Obama's speech, and he is repeating the same mantra - the rich people and rich corporations must give up their tax breaks, and Republican leaders should be emulating Ronald Reagan in agreeing to this.
And frankly...on this I am a little sympathetic to the idea that the super rich pay a bit more in taxes. Anyone who can afford to pay $500,000 for a painting, to hang in their summer house!, could be paying that in taxes and not even miss it!
The essential problem, though, and the one I dont' think anyone has addressed, is how to get those 50% at the bottom of the pile - the ones who pay no federal income tax, off the dole. Workfare, not welfare, should be the order of the day.No money for women who are already on welfare, if they have another kid. Start encouraging moms and dads again, and scorning those girls stupid enough to get pregnant without being married. That used to be a horrible thing, now no one thinks anything of it.
(The problem was, I think, that it was always the kids who'd suffer the repercussions. They can't help the stupidity of their biological parents, but they were the ones who were teased unmercifully in school about being illegitimate. Now, of course, there's no teasing in that regard because most of them are illegitimate!)
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