re: #222 HappyWarrior

You know what gets me is how they claim the rich are demonized but yet they want to demonize the poor and by demonize I mean actually demonize them. People’s exhibit A would be Paul Ryan claiming that parents on the free school lunch program don’t love their children. You can’t compare that to someone like me thinking the rich should swallow their pride and accept tax increases as we have to accept spending cuts. Could go on and on but I don’t want to hear about how the poor wealthy are being “demonized” from people who make people who receive government assistance out to be lazy moochers who never work a honest day.

We know what demonizing the rich looks like —- see, e.g., old-style communist propaganda. In the entire US, there are probably at most a few hundred radicals on the left that are that far out, and they have no political power.

Pointing out issues with income/wealth concentration in the US, and suggesting remedies such as a good stiff estate tax is most certainly not demonizing the rich.