Does "Windbag" Count As A Real Job?
"CNN Contributor"--whatever the hell that is--Erick Erickson is responding to the Occupy Wall Street movement by once again dredging up the tired old argument that 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes and thus are not entitled to as fair of a shot in the economy as the top 53 percent who do pay taxes. This has been a stale right-wing talking point for years now and it's not even worth debunking yet again here.
One important point to remember is that even when people do not pay any federal income tax, they still pay all sorts of other taxes, as Jon Stewart and many others have pointed out. Perhaps even more importantly, remember that while right wing zealots are more than happy to talk about that 47% of ordinary Americans, they certainly do not want to discuss the big corporations who make billions in profits every year and pay very little in the way of any taxes whatsoever. Nor do they want to discuss, the unequal treatment of income and "capital gains" in the tax code or, for that matter, any of the other numerous injustices built into the system by politicians who are bought, paid for, and owned outright by the corporations, the big banks, and the elite top 1%.
What they would rather do is to confuse the issues and to confuse the American people with all sorts of smoke and mirrors and arguments full of logical fallacies. But it's obvious to me that the American people are now becoming a lot less confused. My fellow Americans: The corporations, the banks, the elite, and the Federal Reserve all think that you are stupid. Let's prove them wrong.
"A people, awakened, will always be united. The people, united, can never be defeated."
One important point to remember is that even when people do not pay any federal income tax, they still pay all sorts of other taxes, as Jon Stewart and many others have pointed out. Perhaps even more importantly, remember that while right wing zealots are more than happy to talk about that 47% of ordinary Americans, they certainly do not want to discuss the big corporations who make billions in profits every year and pay very little in the way of any taxes whatsoever. Nor do they want to discuss, the unequal treatment of income and "capital gains" in the tax code or, for that matter, any of the other numerous injustices built into the system by politicians who are bought, paid for, and owned outright by the corporations, the big banks, and the elite top 1%.
What they would rather do is to confuse the issues and to confuse the American people with all sorts of smoke and mirrors and arguments full of logical fallacies. But it's obvious to me that the American people are now becoming a lot less confused. My fellow Americans: The corporations, the banks, the elite, and the Federal Reserve all think that you are stupid. Let's prove them wrong.
"A people, awakened, will always be united. The people, united, can never be defeated."