"In tax deal, they reveal their envy" by Boston Globe neocon columnist (DU cited)

[Submariner]

We got rid of the right wingtard columnist Don Feder a few years ago, only to inherit this neocon Ohio transplant from Boehner country. Not as Orange as the Boner, but just as dumb. Just another never been anywhere done anything know-it-all so-called journalist.

In tax deal, they reveal their envy

LIBERALS AND Democrats have been melting down, blowing up, and freaking out over President Obama’s agreement with Republican leaders to extend Bush-era tax rates for another two years. “An absolute disaster,’’ fumes Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in an interview on MSNBC. “Anger of House Dems boils over,’’ Politico reports. “An Odious Tax Deal,’’ editorializes The New York Times. “Moral corruptness,’’ seethes Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

“No amount of lipstick,’’ roars a headline at Democratic Underground, “can make this pig of a deal acceptable.’’

Why is the left so furious?

I realize, of course, that liberals were against the Bush tax cuts from the start. I know that Obama vowed time and again to let those tax cuts expire for households earning more than $250,000 a year. He made that pledge as a candidate for president, and he was still making it on the campaign trail this fall. “We are ready . . . to give tax cuts to every American making $250,000 or less,’’ the president said in Cleveland on Sept. 8. “For any income over this amount, the tax rates would just go back to what they were under President Clinton.’’

snip > (I can't read the whole pukefest.)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/12/12/in_tax_deal_they_reveal_their_envy/

[fascisthunter]

1. Maybe if he had to stand in front of the unemployed and said this shit

he'd soften his tone a bit. What an arrogant elitist piece of shit this person is...

[bemildred]

2. Projection. Envy, jealousy, and spite are more common among the filthy rich

than anywhere else.

[droidamus2]

3. Of course if we envy them

it must be because they are so damn special. These whiny little bastards wouldn't get away with this crap if the public had a little historic perspective on this tax question. I did a little research on the tax rate question back to the mid-1950's (basically to when I was born) and, as I was somewhat already aware of, the top tax rate at that time up until about 1964 was 91% for income over $200,000.00 if married filing separately. I found it interesting that the tax code was much more progressive back then. By that I mean there were 24 different brackets so as you moved up the pay scale you didn't get huge jumps in your taxes but 'progressively' more taxes were taken. The jumps were usually in the 2-3% range between the different levels. Gee, did the Republicans (I don't know it could have been the Democrats), in the name of simplification, lower the number of brackets simply to make it more painful when you moved from one bracket to the next and make their anti-tax stand resonate more? So my big question is why doesn't the media, I know their corporate controlled why would they, not present this kind of information when they discuss the 'rich' whining about the agreed end to their 3% tax break or the rich being too tightfisted to allow the <250000 tax break to remain in place?

[tomg]

4. Despicable.

Whether as a Dem you support or oppose the current plan, neither position is from "envy." If anything, it comes from recognizing that there are real humans out there hurting. Some of us feel that - given the magnitude of human suffering - go with the deal. Others us - given the possibility of alleviating more of that suffering - say negotiate a better one. Regardless of one's position, I don't think there is a single Duer who "envies" the rich their tax cuts.

[tomg]

5. I checked out the comments.

Hilarious. About 90% seem to think the guy is an asshat.

the other 10% seem to think he is a dipshit.