Reply #23: It's revolutionary since Reagan [View All]

[beardown]

Taxes bad. Freedom good. Government bad. Corporations good. Complex real world solutions bad. Simple slogan based sacrifice avoidance good. Commons bad. Greed good and so on and so forth.

Bush the Stupid and Murdoch came along and tilted the playing field so sharply to the right that they could simultaneously push the ideas that dying for your nation was an honor while paying taxes to pay for the war was an unbearable burden.

If a billion dollar corporation in Oregon is only paying $10.00 a year ( a fairly common tax burden for many Oregon corporations) then it has not only called for a proposal to tax others, but already instituted the tax structure. It's not the taxing others that is revolutionary. It's that the average citizen is doing the proposing for the rich to pay taxes is the revolutionary part, at least in this day and age.

On edit, intentional or not, the way you stated your position sure looked like you had a lot more invested in your statement than just the use of the term 'revolutionary'.