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Another stupid idea from the AFL-CIO

September 1, 2009 - 6:36 am - by Roger Kimball
Michael
2009-09-02 09:16:47

Moho, do you feel better that you have your personal attack out of your system?

Don’t these traders and investors pay income tax, at least as much as congressmen do? This is just purely an attack on small investors. If it were just to make those nasty free market bastards pay then Congress could just close a few more tax loop holes. Ah but wait, that might affect Congressmen unless they exempted themselves and conservatives are actually watching nowadays.

It is very distressing that so many are now pointing out the marxist undertones of government actions. After all, what’s wrong with “to each according to his need, from each according to his ability”, I mean besides it has never worked and never will? It makes it dam difficult to punish the successful!

I have been a union member for decades but it doesn’t blind me to the fact that unions have had a major roll in destroying their own jobs so don’t blame everything on the evil capitalists. (The ones that actually made those jobs in the first place.)