re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

I always hate this characterization because it excludes the other income tax: FICA taxes. Let’s add them back in. You may also want to add in all the other taxes people pay to see how much they support government: sales tax, property taxes, gas taxes etc. The WSJ has always been dishonest to its core, especially anything on its opinion pages, — and that preceded its acquisition by Murdoch

There’s a reason why the top income brackets are taxed so much more than the lower ones, and that’s because those at the top can afford to shoulder more of the tax burden whereas those at the bottom can’t. If you taxed the poor at 25%, there’d be a lot more homeless and starving. Oh, and let’s not forget that this is the income tax - a lot of America’s wealthiest don’t earn their money through income, but through capital gains. So the tax-bashers need to quit their bitching and figure out how to state their argument that doesn’t come across as, “Fuck poor people.” Because I will have none of that shit.