To the barricades, lucky duckies!

To a person earning $12,000, the Journal argues, paying 4 percent in federal income tax is not

enough to get his or her blood boiling with tax rage. … [A]s fewer and fewer people are responsible for paying more and more of all taxes, the constituency for tax cutting, much less for tax reform, is eroding. Workers who pay little or no taxes can hardly be expected to care about tax relief for everybody else. They are also that much more detached from recognizing the costs of government.

—via Slate. Also, the Washington Post. (Seeing as how I don’t subscribe to the Journal and all, I can’t link to it directly.) You just can’t make this stuff up, folks.

—Filed 8199 days ago to Squawkbox.

1. John    Nov 27, 12:09 am    #
   Wow, the conservatives are getting nuttier by the day. I can see the "Tax the Poor" bumper stickers appearing on BMWs any day now.
   
   
2. Kevin Moore    Nov 29, 06:25 pm    #
   Anyone remember the Dead Kennedies' "Kill the Poor"? This would about do it.
   
   
3.    Jul 30, 06:43 pm    #
   it is fuckn shit
   
   
   

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