How’s that for framing? Tax the class-holes that destroyed the economy and created the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, and then demanded We the People bail them out with a trillion dollars, right before claiming they should have special privileged status to pay a lower tax rate than teachers and troops:
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said the surtax would raise $445 billion over 10 years, just about the amount needed to pay for the jobs bill. Mr. Reid said his proposal would “have the richest of the rich pay a little bit more” — “5 percent more to fund job creation and ensure this country’s economic success.”
Of course conservatives won’t go along with it, or even let it come up for a vote in the House. That’s fine: that’s the whole point of proposing legislation like this. To make it crystal freakin clear who’s on the side of 99% of us and who’s on the side of the Job Destroying 1%.
Doesn’t taxing rich people less mean that they’ll be ever so grateful that they’ll create oodles of new jobs?
I have to disagree. Sure, if nothing passes, we get to point at the Republicans and rightly call them a bunch of assholes. But I hope that’s not the whole point of this. We need large scale action to stimulate the economy NOW. It would be tragic if nothing at all passed.
I don’t think Obama’s jobs bill is enough to completely turn things around, but it’s a lot better than doing nothing.