Republicans And Business Groups Unable To Find One 'Job Creator' Who Opposes A Tax On Millionaires
From the article:
NPR put out a request to Republican offices and the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax to find business owners who'd be affected. Unsurprisingly, Republican leadership and the business groups came up empty:
We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.
So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to. A group called the Tax Relief Coalition said the problem was finding someone willing to talk about their personal taxes on national radio.
They are probably unwilling to talk about it because it would expose their greed and selfishness. If the number of Millionaires who said they support increased taxes on the wealthy was increased by two, we would be that much closer to reversing the income inequality trend begun under the Ronald Reagan Presidency.
We are writing to ask you to do the right thing for our country and REJECT ANY Super Committee deal that does not raise tax rates on incomes over $1 million to AT LEAST 39.6%, REGARDLESS of how many deductions are eliminated.
Private jets shouldn't have been tax deductible in the first place.
Thank you,
Patriotic Millionaires and Patriotic Americans
Love it. Poll after poll after poll shows Americans - even Indys and Republicans - agree. The politics of the day say Democrats should pound this message home hourly. But our congressional millionaires, Jared Polis and Michael Bennet have been clearly corrupted by the air in DC and are faint examples of what a Colorado Democrat can be.
Shame on both of them. They are shamed by their Peers in the One Percent: Millionaires who urgently want to preserve the Middle Class, Millionaires who can afford and want to pay more taxes so everyone in America can participate and thrive within a democracy that could be the most wealthy nation in history.
We've all heard of "low information voters" this year, especially after the Republican Party magically cloned itself into a Tea Party that helped win them a majority in the House. The Tea Party seems to have emboldened a new thing called the Low Information Legislator who, good for comedians and bad for democracy, are going to dominate nightly news, The Daily Show, Colbert, Rachel, and late night talk shows everywhere for the duration of this next Congress.
Here, our very own Jared Polis tries to enforce the basics of thought and logic on Republican Steven King, to no avail.....
First terrorist babies, now trash can babies. Of course, legislation that would help babies grow up to become productive adults is almost never introduced by Republicans.
Google search: trash, abandoned, baby = 1.6 Million hits, some in Philippines.
It was only last month when Pat Waak was broadcasting her total disdain for running for another term as Chair of the Colorado Democratic Party but now, rumor has it she has announced interest in running in 2011.
As a loud and proud Progressive of this Party let me say, please don't run. We are so tired of being ignored and overlooked. Of being passed over for OFA sycophants who do nothing but tell us to compromise all of our beliefs away for the betterment of the infallible President and to forget about our State and local elected officials because they don't understand that real change doesn't come from officials in Washington, it happens right here on our City Councils, School Boards, our State Legislature and our County Commissioner.
We are the people who canvass every year for our local elected officials, and believe in true grassroots movements where the key to winning elections is by going door to door and talking to our neighbors. When the best way to spend a Tuesday night is at our House District meetings, or where we know that the term "phone banking" is a 4 letter word, but we still do it.
We want a leader, not a manager. I understand that at all levels we all work hard, but it is much easier to sit in an air conditioned room at the downtown office and bark orders at candidates and staff then to actually go out there in the field and help them. A leader helps at every level, and proves by example that none of us are too good for any job we require to win an election. We have become a party of social climbers and people who believe in "grass tops." That term means about as much as "trickle down" means, absolutely nothing.
You have ignored us, and nothing you say now will make me believe you will change in the future.
What happened to Pat Waak of 2006? The Mike Miles Pat Waak who believed in GrassRoots?
Guaranteed job or income for everyone, put to work on infrastructure investment projects, alternative energy projects, retrofitting buildings to be energy efficient, etc.
Cradle-to-grave Medicare-For-All.
Child care for all.
Eldercare for all.
6 week paid vacation for everyone. (Now you're talking!)
Triple Social Security's payments, lower retirement age to 55.
Worker representatives on Boards of Directors.
Limits to the how much of larger companies can be owned by a person or entity.
When companies reach a certain size they become public entities. (Because they have so much effect on everything.)
Companies responsible for externalized cost payback.
A person whose job is replaced by technology receives for life a share of the savings. (Goodbye outsourcing.)
Bring back 90% top tax rates. (OK I have been agitating for that one.)
That's only a short list of policies with a Socialist objective. And as the OpenLeft-er says, "find me a single Democratic official" working towards this and we'll all chant "¡Socialista!" while pouring our Cuba Libres in a sweaty LoDo cafe.
Yet Mike Rosen can declare with absolute authority on the pages of the Denver Post, and have it printed by Dan Haley, that "we" are Socialists. What that shows is the continuing importance of the word war and that true Democrats must fight against the half-truths and lies every single day.
Because when Democrats can't propose a tax on Billion-dollar estates without being called Commies -- and Bernie Sanders is the closest thing we have to a Socialist in Elected-DC -- then those word have been rendered meaningless except as bludgeons wielded by rabid conservatives used to attack those with whom they disagree.
And when a Democratic President signs the law by which Social Security will finally meet its maker and he is still called a Marxist by every Joe with a microphone the word war is still being waged by those with air time to fill.
But maybe, just maybe, that is the part our public discourse that Michael Bennet is going to fix for us some day. One can only hope someone lives up to their word as this debate about our democracy rages on within - and without - Washington, DC.
Yesterday, Glenn Beck expressed POUTRAGE that anyone would compare something to Nazi Germany, that is, anyone not named Glenn Beck.
When Democrat Jared Polis (CO-2) compared Arizona's new "Breathing while Latino" law ( as Fox's Shep Smith calls it ) to the Nazi tactic of demanding papers be presented at all times or face arrest, Glenn Beck started to cry.
Glenn Beck: "Are you comparing the systematic cold blooded extermination of millions of Jews to America making sure that people are here legally?
No, Glenn Beck, you moron. Jared Polis is comparing the law that required that anyone suspected of being a Jew in Nazi Germany must show documentation or face imprisonment to the new Arizona law that requires anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant to show their documentation or face imprisonment.
