Reply #36: Not going to happen [View All]

[davidthegnome]

Who's going to tax them? Our charismatic President and his administration? No. They work too hard to appeal to moderates and swing voters - they work too hard not to be seen as liberal, though fox and the tea party doesn't seem to care much. I mean, hello, they're passing tens of billions in cuts rather than tax the rich. Isn't that answer enough?

Why would congress support this? The Senate? The WH? Seriously - these people need the super rich to fund their campaigns. A great many of them have quite a significant amount of wealth themselves. The rich aren't going to increase taxes for the super rich. Not in this economy, not in this Country, not in this era.

They have already refused to tax the rich. The demand may be good and well intentioned, but it comes too late. A small handful of the wealthy might agree to pay taxes, might even actually pay them fairly. A small handful may even see things like we do. The majority though, in this case, far overpowers that small handful.

No, the super rich will not be taxed. I'm not convinced we'll ever really revolt. What, risk my life, my family - only to show up on National media as a crazed liberal nut willing to resort to any means for my own political agenda? Then it's prison for me, or a high security psych hospital somewhere. That's how it would go. Or worse, a real rebellion arises and the military is ordered to put it down. That will be fun, infighting in the military, people killing each other all over the Nation and most of us not even knowing who's on what side or what they want.

I suppose it could happen, but it would be insanity, not progress. It is possible that perhaps, progress might come over time... but consider the cost. The lives lost, the sacrifices made - and will it in the end have been worth it? How much innocent blood would be shed on all sides?

No, I don't have a better solution or any solution at all. I'd rather live in misery though, or even die painfully, than watch my people kill each other in the streets.