Tax The Rich

From TPM

The Internal Revenue Service says more than 14,700 U.S. taxpayers with offshore accounts in 70 foreign countries have come forward to settle their tax debts.

Shulman says those taxpayers represent billions of dollars in taxes returning to the U.S.

H/T to Jed Lewison

 

 The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a federal report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.

   In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children — more than one in five across the United States — were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million youngsters the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.

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Of course it has always been so. Rich Americans doing all they can to avoid taxes while poor Americans starve.

Rich Americans with Cadillac Health Plans while 45,000 Americans a year die from the inability to afford Health care.

Now that the Health care proposal is getting watered down into the windfall for the very Insurance companies that caused the Health Care Crisis, the only question left is how to fund it.

Iow words, how to extract enough money from the poor and middle class in order to give it to the Insurance companies so that they can use that money for research….on how to screw the he poor and middle class out of more money while still providing crappy Health Care. That Americans will now be FORCED to buy.

One proposal even includes….gasp….taxing the rich who have prospered obscenely under the Bush tax cuts and deregulation.

The rich who just got busted hiding billions from the tax collectors, the rich who poor and middle class Americans just bailed out of the crisis that the rich manufactured out of their pathological need to be richer. The rich who are heartily enjoying the biggest wealth disparity in the history of America.

How is this NOT a no brainer?

It appears to be a novel and rather shocking concept in 21st century America to do what all civilized and successful society’s do….tax the wealthiest of their citizens to provide food and medical care for the poorest of their citizens. That concept is in fact at the heart of civilization, it is the reason for societies, it is How Things Work in the lands beyond American soil.

Of course it is only in America that when the government does things that the rich don’t like, the rich just buy the government….and use it to screw everyone else while even further enriching and protecting themselves.

How does a civilized society provide food shelter and health care for the least fortunate of it’s citizens? The answer has always been the same and it should be the same now, no matter how loud the screams or how big the campaign contributions bribe.

Tax The Rich

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    • Edger on November 17, 2009 at 20:42

    pass a law to tax the rich? Does it have to be bi-partisan so that they get a more than offsetting tax break too, so that Pelosi can grin and thump her chest on camera and tell everyone how wonderful she is while Harry stares at the floor looking vaguely uncomfortable?

    • Inky99 on November 17, 2009 at 20:59

    We don’t need them.  

    Does anyone really NEED To be a billionaire?

    How many new billionaires do we have, in, say, the last ten years or so?

    BILLIONAIRES.

    If I was a billionaire, I’d give away most of my money.   They woudn’t have to tax me.

    But all these other fucks?   TAX THEM.  

    If they don’t want to help out, then eat them.

    It’s simple.

  2. is going into the pockets of the military, I don’t see much point in celebrating this.

    • Joy B. on November 17, 2009 at 22:44

    5 MILLION MORE children going hungry is a “slight” increase? Jesus!

    • banger on November 18, 2009 at 21:40

    that we are talking nostalgically about what the progressive income tax did. How did it end? Tracing that course and the lack of fanfare on its passing would make a good study (it may have been done).

    Personally, I favor elimination of an income tax (it is messy and gives all the wrong rewards to the wrong people) and the introduction of a national property tax (real estate) and consumption tax on non-food items only. I would add to that a series of luxury taxes and taxes on the Wall Street gaming industry.

    Having said all that I think it’s simply too late to increase taxes on the rich or even try. The government has become so corrupt that the money would just go back to them (the rich) and people would think there was a “reform”. No, better to scuttle the government and resist all taxes at least until we have a return to rule of law, the Constitution, and an honest electoral system.

    Sorry, I’ve gone so far left I’m on the right now.

  3. a successful campaign advertising extravaganza to Return America to a mythical greatness during the time of the powerful Industrialists and the classic movies of Hollywood. Reagan was the perfect character, and there were plenty investors to back this new enterprise.

    I think Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush followed the same screenplay, each doing his part to accomplish the same thing. Sure, there were big time political fights, especially with Clinton, but it was just good clean entertainment.

    The way I see it, the formula for success was/is to lower income taxes for the rich, deregulate so they can make more money, increase Defense Spending (and find new wars), justify the deficit  (but be sure to blame it on the poor and any social program ever conceived of to help them), because true greatness is having the greatest military on earth and millionaires to show the world how truth wealth is created (and eventually dispersed to the peasants).

    Bush/Clinton/Bush continued this model with deregulation sped up and with brand new wars to boot, with Bush 2 a cheer leader supreme for free markets and Jesus. And we created the most zillionaires in the history of the U.S. protected by a greatest MIC in memory. And, of course incalculable debt, but who’s counting anyway, as Reagan’s economic gurus noted; we just owe it to ourselves, sort of; any anyhow there are plenty of others to pay for it once it trickles down to them.

  4. either tax the rich, or eat them.

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