Ben Stein says: Tax The Rich!

[tom22]

I assume everyone knows Ben stein: Lawyer, actor, Nixon speech writer, sometime talking head on TV. He is no slouch about economics. His father was Herb Stein the economist and if memory serves his aunt was coauthor with Milton Friedman on the standard economic history of the United States. I guess everyone missed it, but this Sunday in the NYTimes Ben Stein wrote an article on the need to raise taxes on the rich. He made the point that overall tax rates on the rich are the lowest in some 60 years. We run massive deficits, we have a trade imbalance which will require our children to go into indenture to the Japanese and the Chinese. We risk both SS and Medicare, the programs which have transformed old age form a time of terror to a tme of security.
No democrat except John Edwards even mentions this issue. This is an issue which our party should own and talk about untill hell freezes over. Where is our party? Even moderate republicans talk about tax fairness! Where are our party leaders?

[swag]

1. Here ya go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x218805

[tom22]

2. It's in the wrong forum:

This is the winning issue. It should be talked about until election day.

[sandnsea]

3. Wha? No Democrat mentions tax give-aways to the rich?

Again and again I ask, where do people get their information. Democrats talk about tax cuts to the rich at least once a week. Gads.

[LostInAnomie]

4. You'll never get the Repukes to agree.

Their worship of the rich knows no bounds. They do not care that their rich gods would and are selling out this country to the lowest bidder. They don't care that the government bows and scrapes to the wealthy, because it is never enough. They don't care that 2% of the population controls the vast majority of the wealth.

They just do not care.

As far as they are concerned we live through the will of the rich. The table scraps that they drop are more than we deserve. To ask them to be socially responsible would be asking far too must of gods.

[handsignals4theblind]

5. More Tax Breaks to the Rich--shrink the middle class

It is imperative that we unleash the dogs of fiscal conservatism. The debt must increase to coincide with ever more devalued greenbacks printed.
Americans don't care about defecits as the Oracle of Delphi, The Wizard of Wyoming,Dick Cheney predicted before the last fraudlection.
Why change a good thing? The AMerican tax payer must continue to pay the full costs more Pentagon welfare projects to ensure America stays competetive in the consumer market.

Vote for the dead party of 1968 who don't answer to the same lobbyists

[tom22]

7. I get my information by reading the newspapers everyday.

I will repeat there is not a single democrat running for President (with the possible exception of John Edwards) that has made the unfairness of the Bush tax cuts the central them of his speeches.
Get real and start playing real politics. Per usual the posters at DU are out of touch with political reality.
This is the subject that should be the rockbed of every democratic campaign and it isn't. not even close.

[rucky]

9. Probably because they personally benefit from the Bush tax cuts. n/t

[zbdent]

6. Maybe this is why the push to attack the NY Times . . .

Ben Stein, conservative, Bush fanatic . . . and now "flaming liberal"???? Did he include a bunch of :sarcasm: smilies?

[AnnieBW]

8. Bueller? Bueller?

I'll be that Ben got the same response from the Rethug Congress when he proposed that.