| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| World of Class Warfare - Warren Buffett vs. Wealthy Conservatives | ||||
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"There is an ongoing argument in this very country about how best to close the enormous deficit that we have incurred. Republicans have proposed doing it entirely through spending cuts, whereas the Democrats have bravely fought back, insisting we do it... almost entirely through spending cuts."
Sadly, that's true. The Democratic position is almost as far right as the Republican position, just not as crazy.
But anyway,... so Warren Buffett is a "socialist" because he doesn't think he should pay a lower tax rate than his cleaning lady? If this is "class warfare," I guess Buffett must be a traitor, huh?
But really, returning tax rates for the wealthy to where they were in the 1990s is "class warfare"? You know, I remember the 1990s. But I don't remember a lot of billionaires in welfare lines back then. I don't remember soup kitchens clogged with millionaires and billionaires.
The rich were doing very, very well in the 1990s. Really, they were. Maybe they weren't quite as obscenely wealthy as today, after their enormous windfall from George W. Bush, but they sure as hell weren't hurting! And the rest of the country was doing a lot better.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over | ||||
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I'm not going to comment much on the second half of this, because apparently my computer problems aren't over. It's been crashing regularly this morning.
Well, Jon Stewart does a great job all by himself, anyway. Yeah, we don't want to tax the wealthy, because it just isn't worth it (even though giving them those tax cuts got us into this mess in the first place). Instead, we want to tax the poor. Because that's where the money... isn't, I guess.
But there is a lot of them. Maybe we could sell their organs or something...
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