GOP economic policy: "B-b-b-ut socialism..."

[syndicalist.livejournal.com]

"President Obama is being called a 'socialist' who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre. But the charge of socialism is being thrown around only because “liberal” doesn’t seem to carry the punch it used to." - Paul Krugman

Comments

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Another good, unrelated point made by Mr. Krugman-- here (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/12/krugman-defense/).

In regards to the Krugman quote you posted, I'd add that the tax rate Obama wants to reinstitute (again, only for the highest-income Americans) is the same one we had in the 1990s... which we all remember was a horrible nightmare!!1! Oh, wait. And not only was that tax rate 10% points less than the one under that filthy socialist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M) Ronald Reagan, it was over 50% points less than the rate under that Marxist, Dwight Eisenhower. I will teabag every attractive liberal guy I met until this madness is exposed!!

PS-- Stimulus is totally lame. Everyone knows the way to recreate jobs is to redefine them (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main601336.shtml).

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

You're not recreating jobs! You're recreating work!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Save the country? We'll have to destroy it in order to save it!

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Get rid of all incumbents, both Democratic and Republican. No more career politicians!

(I think that would be a good start.)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

It'll never happen. For all the "we want change!" rhetoric, people don't want change. Voting Incumbent Party(tm) is an easy way to feed one's keep-it-the-same cortex, while also bolstering the love-to-bitch-about-stuff lobe.

[i.livejournal.com]

actually, we do want change. we just don't want to change everything, and we don't want change just for the sake of it, we want intelligent, measured, well thought out and workable change.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

You make a valid but somewhat depressing point.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Such is the fate of the jester.

[i.livejournal.com]

yeah, put a bunch of inexperienced amateurs in charge. that will solve everything.

who wants people who make a career out of public service anyway? we need flybynighters who just go in, make a quick buck, and get out.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

My thought was that representation by a greater cross-section of our society might be healthy for the body politic.

But I get the impression I'm being too much of an optimist.

[i.livejournal.com]

look what term limits did for us.

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

I think they tried that in California. They got Arnold Schwarzenegger. A few decades before they got Ronald Reagan.

Think about it before you speak in the future.