The other day we treated you to the tale of how some plutocrats are trimming their sails for the winds of change.
Apparently mere millionaires are too. A few dozen New York millionaires just sent a letter to the governor pleading for higher taxes on themselves.
WTF?
I'm starting to like these guys!
Showing posts with label Nick Hanauer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Hanauer. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2016
Sunday, March 20, 2016
At least some of the plutocrats realize the jig is up
The system is broken, and at least some of the .001 percenters are sensing which way the winds are blowing.
Right now, the folks sharpening their pitchforks are gathering around either Sanders or Trump.
Either way, it's gonna be a bad ending for the plutocrats.
Hanauer gets it exactly right. He may be a billionaire but he's worried about making it to his private jet in time to avoid the pitchforks coming his way.
The "establishment" in the Beltway is on the cusp of being overthrown. The pissed-off masses are coalescing around Bernie and Donald.
Bernie is burnt toast because the Dem Machine that he's hoping to commandeer is obviously in the hands of Hillary.
The GOP Machine, on the other hand, is being commandeered by a New York liberal who has thus far succeeded in outwitting the very machine that he has hijacked... If I'm not mistaken the Newtster gave Trump his seal of approval today.
Is this a crazy world or what!?
That's why every progressive should get behind Trump.
Right now, the folks sharpening their pitchforks are gathering around either Sanders or Trump.
Either way, it's gonna be a bad ending for the plutocrats.
Hanauer gets it exactly right. He may be a billionaire but he's worried about making it to his private jet in time to avoid the pitchforks coming his way.
The "establishment" in the Beltway is on the cusp of being overthrown. The pissed-off masses are coalescing around Bernie and Donald.
Bernie is burnt toast because the Dem Machine that he's hoping to commandeer is obviously in the hands of Hillary.
The GOP Machine, on the other hand, is being commandeered by a New York liberal who has thus far succeeded in outwitting the very machine that he has hijacked... If I'm not mistaken the Newtster gave Trump his seal of approval today.
Is this a crazy world or what!?
That's why every progressive should get behind Trump.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Fat cat calls for higher taxes on fat cats
Needless to say, that makes Nick Hanauer my kind of fat cat.
When rubes like me argue that lower taxes on richer people accomplish nothing but draining the treasury, we are dismissed as envious know-nothing pinkos.
It's not quite as easy to dismiss Nick Hanauer. He's one of them, a bona fide .1 percenter.
The argument that cutting taxes on "job creators" stifles job creation assumes that it's the speculators and hedgies who create jobs. As Hanauer points out, if lowering tax rates on the super-rich created jobs, America would be awash in jobs after the last fifty years of tax slashing for the rich.
Look around you.
Is America awash in jobs?
When rubes like me argue that lower taxes on richer people accomplish nothing but draining the treasury, we are dismissed as envious know-nothing pinkos.
It's not quite as easy to dismiss Nick Hanauer. He's one of them, a bona fide .1 percenter.
The argument that cutting taxes on "job creators" stifles job creation assumes that it's the speculators and hedgies who create jobs. As Hanauer points out, if lowering tax rates on the super-rich created jobs, America would be awash in jobs after the last fifty years of tax slashing for the rich.
Look around you.
Is America awash in jobs?
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