At a time when poverty is increasing, when public parks and public libraries are being closed and when public schools are shrinking their offerings and their hours, when the nation’s debt is immense, and when the 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together — Romney’s 13 percent is shameful.

Robert Reich (via azspot)

I call BS on this. If government is failing in its basic legitimate functions (parks, libraries, schools—although even that last one is debatable), it’s not due to lack of funds. It’s because government spends way too much on all the extra junk beyond its constitutional restrictions. It also helps that it feels free to dishonestly print its own money—which is yet another indirect tax on the the people.

I support any legal and ethical means of avoiding taxes. The more money in the pockets of people like Romney—who actually know how to earn and mange wealth—and the less that enters government “management,” the better.

(via sds)

I’m trying to formulate a coherent response to your comments, sds, but I’m too busy picking my jaw up off the floor.

WWJD, indeed.

I mean, I don’t entirely disagree with your first paragraph addressing the failings of government to this point… but to counter that with the idea that, in the simplest terms, “the rich getting richer is better for everyone” without taking into consideration how that wealthy minority may have come into such fabulous wealth (corruption or taking advantage of those less fortunate) nor the relative percentage of their assets and income paid out as taxes (hilariously out of whack with what “regular” folks pay)… that it’s just so devoid of reason and common sense I find it irresponsible, proven historically ineffectual at improving our country, and an affront to basic human decency.

Source: commondreams.org

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