[GCFL-discuss] Welcome to the Republican Party II

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

That's so depressing. I'm a college grad with an AAS, AA, and a BA and I
can't even break the $30K mark. :*(
~L
On 11/7/06, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
> John, you ran this twice. I'm taking that as license to offer a different
> brand of flak:
>
> On Tuesday morning, the second stop on my route, a man who retired from
> work at an Evinrude plant brought his disabled son out to the bus. I
> noticed his yard sign, and made a remark about the election. He said
> "Yeah, a guy like you, driving this bus, how could you afford to be a
> Republican?" I couldn't agree more.
>
> TIME magazine recently ran a special report on "America at 300 million"
> which included a page on "What We Earn."
>
> How much time at work does it take to make $1000?
>
> Howard Stern                     24 seconds
> Dr. Phil                                42 seconds
> Wolfgang Puck                        7 minutes, 30 seconds
> Police officer                        43 hours
> Farmer                                57 hours
> Janitor                                 103 hours
>
> I skipped some in betweens.
>
> 50% of us have income less than $30,000, while 2.3 million make between
> $200,000 and $500,000, and 9,677 tax returns show income of more than $10
> million.
>
> In no sense whatsoever are these larger amounts "earned" by "hard work."
> That may be true (sometimes) of the difference between $15,000 and
> $100,000, but not between $50,000 and $10 million.
>
> Accordingly, in the spirit of my favorite Democrat, the late great
> senator from Louisiana, Huey Pierce Long, I have no problem whatsoever
> with putting a huge tax burden on incomes over $200,000, and taking half
> of all income over $1 million, to make sure that, e.g. everyone has
> affordable health insurance. (By everyone, I mean, including proprietors
> of small businesses who eke out just enough to support their families,
> not just wage employees).
>
> REAL tax reform would be to make the first $20,000 tax exempt for
> individuals, $50,000 for families, and no, same-sex couples don't get to
> file joint returns. Also, I've always thought janitors and garbage
> collectors should be paid two or three times the legal minimum wage, and
> allowed to work only 25-30 hours a week, as they do necessary but
> undesirable work. People who find their work stimulating and inspiring
> should be content to work for a little less.
>
> The ideological demons who run the Republican Party have a lot of people
> making $30,000 a year scared to death that half their income will be
> seized to pay welfare checks, when the real sharing of wealth to those
> who did not work for it is at the other end of the income scale.
>
> I am not a member of the Democratic Party because they don't have the
> spine to stand up and say this straight out. But I generally vote for
> them, because at least they make a half-hearted effort to raise the legal
> minimum wage to maybe 75% of what it should be.
>
> Siarlys
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