What was your major in college, Matt, specious reasoning? Obama does not want to punish the wealthy; he wants to return tax rates to where they were during the Clinton era, when the US economy was booming. During the Bush era, the wealthy and big business have had their taxes slashed further, and the result has been the antitheses of Reagan’s discredited “trickle down effect,” to wit, a shattered economy with the highest rate of home foreclosures since the Great Depression, plummeting home values, soaring unemployment, calamitous failures of our biggest banks and brokerages, while low and middle class workers, the intellectual and economic backbone of our economy, have seen their retirement savings wiped out, and their dreams of a secure future shattered. After eight consecutive years of rewarding the rich, of slashing the taxes of the Exxon’s, the AIGs, and the Lehman Brothers of our country, Obama wants to cut taxes modestly for the forgotten, distressed lower and middle class workers. That’s not drubbing Joe the Plumber, that’s fighting for Jane the nurse, for Tom the bus driver, for Sam the taxi driver, for Mohammed the bookkeeper, and for Jose the schoolteacher. That’s not socialism, as the Republic Party and Sarah Palin have claimed, that’s rationalism, that’s compassion, that’s fair. Republicans must remember compassion and fairness, if not reason? It’s taught not only in the Sunday Schools throughout the Bible and Rust Belts, but in the churches, mosques and synagogues throughout of our Great Land.
