Freedom Is Slavery: The Road to the Dystopian Novel

[jill_rg]

I'm no cartoonist, but I am a writer, and since I see some writing in this community, I hope it's okay if I post a little something about all the tactics the current powers-that-be in the U.S. have borrowed from Oceania and the other totalitarian regimes of the great dystopian novels:

http://jill-rg.livejournal.com/20193.html

Comments

[fizzyland]

You're obviously a fan of fantasy fiction if you think that Mittens H. Romney III is going to improve anything but tax cuts for the wealthy. Also, bonus luls at the "free lifetime birth control for wimmins."

[fizzyland]

Selective benefits like massively lower tax rates on 'investment income?'

[catlin]

http://www.threetypes.com/philosophy/income-types.shtml

Note the def. It is income from investments, purchases, etc. Generally, given 401k's have their own tax category, people are talking about stock market revenue. Now, once you have a crap ton of money enough that you are living off that revenue, you quit your job like Mittens did, you pay a heck of a lot less taxes on the revenue from your stocks. Thus how Warren Buffet is paying a lower percentage then his secretary, and Mittens is paying an unknown percentage, given half his investments are stashed out of the US.

[fizzyland]

Were you in a coma during the George W Bush tax cuts that primarily benefitted the rich?

[yes_justice]

if you think that Mittens H. Romney III is going to improve anything but tax cuts for the wealthy.

They said the same Thing about George W. Bush, and it turned out to be false.

No, he did have massive tax cuts for the wealthy and then started a war of choice and forgot to pay for it.

[dexeron]

Henry Paulson would like to have a word with you.