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Just ‘crutches’ and ‘props’ …

Quite evident yesterday, and ‘they’glibly assumed today would continue the ‘trend’…

trillions were found within weeks for Wall Street but programs like universal healthcare have been left to languish for decades. We can debate who owns our government but it is pretty clear that we don’t.

Also remember, it was Sec. of Def. Rumsfeld who announced on 9/10/01 that the DoD had lost track of several TRILLION dollars.

Could’ve bought some nice healthcare with that money.

Besides, Mark, that is simply too reasonable and JUST, for this “right of center” nation, doncha know?

But yes, its about time for such an audacious ‘change’.

Aren’t stock dividends also taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income?

I really think that one of the egregious problems in our tax code is the preferential treatment that capital gets over labor.

Couldn’t someone challenge that as unconstitutional, as not equal treatment under the law?

Let us begin.

Are you listening, Barack?

Then we must consider that, realistically, ’tis ALWAYS a small ‘core’ group, who, trusting each other enough to work together, develop the essential principles of what the end result should ‘look’ like.
(FDL might be considered to be ‘preparing’ the ‘foundation’ for such an accomplished ‘group’, for example.)

When these steps have been taken … well, then, all involved pledge, their lives, their sacred honor, and their wealth, such as it might be, to each other and the ‘battle’ is ‘joined’.

As we are committed to non-violent struggle, we shall have to understand that ‘they’ are not …

There is no way to move forward unless people are willing to put their ‘comfort’, their lives, AND their bodies on the line.

There are certain commenters here (and I ‘imagine’ you understand whom, selise), who have, quite clearly articulated how things must ‘begin’.

The issue, beyond thinking clearly, rationally, and bearing in mind that there shall be a ‘cost’, has to do with what all of us have come to term “backbone”.

I realize I’ve suggested nothing ‘new’, selise, but deeper discussion might needs await the ‘run-ups’ to what appears, to me, an inevitable (and crucially necessary) Constitutional Convention, where the ‘discussion’ would be engaged in earnest.

We are where we are.

The next steps, all of them, require courage and resolve.

As for taxes generally, it depends on how you feel about government. If you feel government is wrong and should be drowned in a bathtub, then taxes are a waste. If you see public services other than defense as necessary, than taxes are the price of living in a civil society. Taxes are not an investment for which the individual receives in public services the amount he pays in taxes. People without children pay for schooling other people’s children just as people who are fortunate enough not to suffer a fire pay to support a fire department.

As for getting out of the box we are in, not only must we increase taxes on the wealthy, we might try to restructure our debt. Go to our largest creditors like China, Japan, Saudi Arabia etc and ask that principal and interest payments be postponed say five years while we develop efficient salt water desalinization, cold fusion, improved batteries etc. In five years we repay them in kind instead of cash. This provides money for going in new directions without printing it and it provides jobs for Americans both in new scientific endeavors and for repairing infrastructure.