ezekiel's chariot - 張敦楷 (pjammer) wrote,
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Eat the Rich: Democrat's Fantasy

Democrats and leftists have long bitterly complained that the Bush tax cuts & unilateral wars are what has brought this country to its precarious situation. According to the narrative, the current administration's massive deficits are rooted in the sins of his predecessor.

Let's go with it for a moment: let's imagine that not only we wave a wand and erase the Bush tax cuts, and actually just CONFISCATE 100% the wealth and earnings of the richest 2% of Americans. Can we even balance the Obama budget through wholesale plundering of our nation's plutocrats?

The answer may surprise you.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/04/16/eating-the-rich.php

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perich

June 24 2011, 18:15:38 UTC 6 years ago

Democrats and leftists have long bitterly complained that the Bush tax cuts & unilateral wars are what has brought this country to its precarious situation. According to the narrative, the current administration's massive deficits are rooted in the sins of his predecessor.

Let's go with it for a moment: let's imagine that not only we wave a wand and erase the Bush tax cuts, and actually just CONFISCATE 100% the wealth and earnings of the richest 2% of Americans

Or the U.S. could perhaps not fight so many wars.

pjammer

June 24 2011, 18:18:29 UTC 6 years ago

Actually, he touched on that very topic! Immediate withdrawal from Iraq/Afghanistan would save us something like 200 billion, which would keep the budget going for another month or so.

And why are none of the antiwar left protesting Obama's gleeful disregard for even the pretense of congressional approval to open up a third war in Libya?

perich

June 24 2011, 18:28:07 UTC 6 years ago

And why are none of the antiwar left protesting Obama's gleeful disregard for even the pretense of congressional approval to open up a third war in Libya?

Several of them are (Glenn Greenwald, Scott Lemieux, Digby, etc). How many anti-war left do you read?

infrogmation

June 24 2011, 21:24:13 UTC 6 years ago

Um, yeah, anti-war people are protesting against wars. Whatever party is President. Don't just make random guesses as to what the opinions of some people who aren't you might be, PJammer.

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November 4 2011, 00:59:13 UTC 6 years ago

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