Turning Bush-Era Tax Cuts into our newest Sacred Cow

[gibby2433]

People making over $250,000 a year are the greatest people in America. They are the earners, the employers, the distilled and refined. They have burdens and stress the likes of which everyday average working stiffs can't even begin to fathom. They want only the best and demand excellence and luxury.

And to return their tax rates to ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO is, quite simply, Un-American. We all remember the Great Rich Depression of 1999, when the richest among us were bedraggled with the prospect of becoming second summer-home-less.

No, my fellow Americans, when times are tough it's up to the middle and working class of this country to shoulder the burden.

What's wrong with us? Why is our president not fighting for the bottom 95%? Why are we letting the elite turn a temporary tax cut for the rich into an untouchable Sacred Cow, while preaching fiscal responsibility from the other side of their lying, lecherous mouths? When times are tough the rich are asked to do NOTHING. To sacrifice NOTHING. That is, and has always been, the job of the blue collar.

I can't take it anymore. Let the top 5% go back to paying taxes at the level of ten years ago. So what, they won't even miss it. It's not a "redistribution of wealth," as the idiot Right try and claim; it's an expiration of something temporary, that they don't need anymore. And since it's a proven fact it will give the government 700 billion dollars over the next ten years it should be a no-brainer.

But, unfortunately, those same top 5% own 99.999% of the outlets to plead this case. You think they're listening to US? Hardly. WE sit and watch THEM. We get angry. They go home and count their money.

[handmade34]

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it is well past time to act... change OUR behavior. Write emails, letters, take to the street, boycott, organize, create local co-ops, etc... educate others