Wednesday Open Thread

Filed in National by on August 10, 2011

Here are some more results from that CNN-ORC poll released yesterday. (Warning: PDF file). As you will see, the Teabaggers are alone in their desire to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Which of these statements comes closest to your view: 1) Taxes on wealthy people should be kept low because they invest their money in the private sector and that helps the economy and creates jobs; or 2) Taxes on wealthy people should be kept high so the government can use their money for programs to help lower-income people?

All:
Keep taxes on wealthy low: 33%
Raise taxes on wealthy: 62%

Those who support the Tea Party answered as follows:
Kept low: 77%
Kept high: 20%

Those who are neutral on tea party:
Kept low: 23%
Kept high: 71%

Those who see the Tea Party for the vile repugnant evil racist movement that it is:
Kept low: 15%
Kept high: 80%

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  1. puck says:
    August 10, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    Casting for the next kabuki exhibition has been completed

    On the Democratic side, there’s Max Baucus, who actually voted for the Bush tax cuts in 2001, and nobody representing the Democratic wing. Jed Lewison gets to the essential point:

    there’s basically zero chance that any of these guys will support a marginally acceptable deficit reduction package. At most, they’ll support tax reform that they’ll claim will generate revenue through economic growth. The danger here is that the Obama administration will embrace such a deal and push Congressional Democrats to accept it as well because tax reform would take the Bush tax cuts off the table by changing the rate structure, even if revenue isn’t actually increased.

    We all know now it is not enough to just point it out on the Internet. Although there do seem to be plenty of people including Democrats who think “tax reform” is some warm and fuzzy thing that doesn’t cost anything, and is much more congenial than arguing about tax increases. So maybe someone needs to keep pointing it out.

    Anyway, when you go do whatever activism and involvement you are going to do, here’s what I’d say (from Jed):

    …it’s important for Democrats and the administration to stake out a clear position: no deal unless the Bush high-income tax cuts are effectively repealed. And they must be prepared to accept the trigger.

    This crew is NOT going to create a “tax reform” deal that will make the rich pay their fair share. In fact, the current concept of “tax reform” was invented to avoid just that. So we can probably boil down the message even further:

    “No to tax reform. Yes to the wealthy paying their fair share.”

  2. delbert says:
    August 10, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    What are our law schools in place to do? To teach law, of course. But sometimes it works backwards. In today’s news Widenor University School of Law is about to get a lesson in civil jurisprudence by none other than our own Thomas Neuberger, Raider of the Catholic Cash Hoards, and Spanker of the Delaware State Police.

    It seems some overpaid school administrators did something stupid in the aftermath of complaints made by two students who didn’t like the teaching style of Lawrence Connell. Now they’re getting sued by the law firm of Thomas Neuberger on behalf of the insulted and damaged instructor. And when you get sued by Neuberger….you usually end up paying up a lot of money. It’s on the front page of today’s News Journal.

  3. socialistic ben says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:06 am

    ok fess up. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/10/donnell-s-amazon-page-attacked-by-cybervandals.html who did it?

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