You are a funny guy, flap, I have to admit. I mean, dredging up all that class- warfare rhetoric, portraying wealthy persons as frat boys obsessed with sports cars, with a penchant for lawbreaking, and summoning us to a vision of the working men and women in America. It is a good parody of a Popular Fronter circa 1932. Why, those poor working men and women of America drive cars that are 12 years old, or better, pick up trucks. Of course, elementary fairness would eliminate all progressivity in the tax code, since the rich would still pay more, and progressivity is merely a lame device for redistribution. A revenue neutral flat tax would be about 17%, without loopholes, perhaps 20% if we dropped more people from the tax rolls. Boy, would the rich get back a lot then! And, of course, it would either be invested in productive assets, or spent, supporting the payrolls of the industries supplying the goods and services bought. Either way, no harm, no foul, who cares how many cars the kid has, he is adding to the revenue of Detroit, and therefore putting money in the pockets of the UAW member.
Anyway, after your amusing foray into '30s nostalgia, you cap it all off with an assertion the Joe Lieberman is going to be the leader of the Democratic Party! Joe "I'll reverse sincerely held opinions for the chance to be the first Orthodox Jew on a major party ticket" Leiberman? Joe "there may be someone more boring in the Senate, but I can't think of one" Leiberman? Sorry, but he would be dog meat in a real fight even with Joe Biden. Daschle would have him on toast points, Gephardt would serve him in aspic. You are probably stuck with Goofus and Gallant for the near term. After that, well, it is looking bad. Maybe a governor can bail you out, the Congressional Democrats look pretty bad..... |
