Rep. Schakowsky announces Fairness in Taxation Act, 3-16-11

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Run time: 07:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqde-wtoYM   Posted on YouTube: March 16, 2011 By YouTube Member: RepSchakowsky Views on YouTube: 267   Posted on DU: March 18, 2011 By DU Member: WhoIsNumberNone Views on DU: 1148

 

[alstephenson]

1. Thanks, Rep. Schakowsky.

[rabies1]

2. I hope this goes viral !!!

Call your senators to stand behind this one.
K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R ....

[JDPriestly]

8. Call your representative. These things start in the House.

[Skink]

3. Reagan was a progressive.

[NCcoast]

4. This is how it should be

Think about this. The Koch brothers split 11.5 billion last year. That's $5.75 billion each. That's 5,750 million. Let's say Tom Cruise makes $20 million a movie. If most people had that kind of money they'd buy a fat house, a fat second house, a fat boat and very nice couple of cars. So let's say they'd get $5 million in goodies and live large off the interest happily ever after. That's $20 million. Tom could do about 3 of those a year so he'll bank about $60 million. Peanuts, chump change, walking around money.

Tom Cruise is going to have to make 287.5 movies next year to pull down what one of the Koch brothers got last year. He's going to have to make a movie about every day and a third to keep up.

A Rod, highest paid athlete in the world. Ten year contract for $275 million. That's 27.5 million a year. I hope A Rod's legs hold out because he's going to have to play another 209 seasons to pull down what one of the Koch brothers did last year.

And yet, they need more. They think YOU are earning too much. You with your little house and your little kids and your little doctor bills and your hopes of someday retiring, YOU are earning too much money. And it's costing them. YOU are the greedy one. Get it? These are sick men. They have wealth beyond any imagining and yet they wake up every day thinking about how they can take more from you, how they can make the lives of others more miserable. They will never be satisfied. It is a character disorder and it will never be repaired. They're souls are empty places and YOU must pay in suffering to fulfill that emptiness. They will never stop.

And they have limitless money with which to buy armies of boot licks like Scott Walker and armies of snake oil salesmen like Bill'O and Shawn and Glenn. More soulless men who should be selling slicer dicers in a Kmart but now enjoy duping the public into self destruction for tens of millions per year. I hope America is finally waking up to realize that they are fighting against broken men who hate beyond imagining.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. Welcome to DU

And may I say- Way to make an entrance.

[JDPriestly]

9. NCcoast, wish you could post this as a new thread.

Its a great post.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

10. Cut and paste into GD?

Easy peasy.

[NCcoast]

11. OK.. I'll do that

I'm a little ham handed at this sort of thing so let's see if I can work it out.

[NCcoast]

12. Done it

Thanks guys, my first trip to the Greatest list. Drinks all around!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x680407

[namvet73]

5. Juxtapose that with this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4daYJzyls

[WhoIsNumberNone]

7. Is it just me, or is that one of the Koch brothers in the background?

In the lower left corner of the screen. You can only see about 40% of his face, so I could be wrong- Maybe a case of Koch on the brain after the last few weeks...

[furgee]

13. Proud to say she is my congresswoman!!