The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    The power to tax is the power to destroy

    By jollyroger on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:53am |

    So wrote the great Chief Justice John Marshall, in 1819.

    He probably did not mean the phrase the way I do, but if we deconstruct it just a tiny bit, it can show us the way to a new world, free of the plutocrats, the kleptocrats, the malefactors of great wealth (h/t FDR) and the rest of the thieving, rapacious parasites that prey upon the life of the people (h/t Patty Hearst aka Tania)

    Today Michael Moore rallied the Occupy Wall Streeters, and his cry included the demand that the rich be taxed.

    How much? was the cry.  Not enough, was the answer.

    And so it goes.

    By the vote, by the majority, by the democracy, by the organizing, by the marching, by the sitting-in, by the non violence, we shall someday reclaim the power to tax that has so long been the despised stepchild of popular government.

    And when we do, the rich will pay what is fair, and what is fair is not enough, but they will still squeal "class warfare" and for a change, they will be right.

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    Fair tax=90% of everything you own over 2 million.


    by jollyroger on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:24am

    I like Ike (he lowered the top marginal rate from 92%) And things really boomed.


    by jollyroger on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:49am