One last post on taxes before I forget about the issue forever or until the next time I have to pay them. Hopefully the Tea Parties were so successful that the IRS will be disbanded and we can go on with our merry lives.
Matt Taibbi, an editor for Rolling Stone magazine (who blogs for a different website for some reason) has a post about the tea parties and the absurdity of it all. His basic point is that there is all kinds of wasteful government spending that use tax dollars but those who got pissed off enough about it to attend one of these Tea Parties only did so when the government pushed through a bill that included a massive public works package and homeowner aid probably which was directed at them.
His main argument is that these tea baggers did not start complaining until these programs were aimed at them. From his blog post:
"In other words teabaggers don’t mind paying taxes to fund the salaries of Bolivian miners, Lou Gerstner’s stock options, deliveries of “sailboat fuel,” the Hermes scarves on Sandy Weill’s jet pillows, or even the export of their own goddamn jobs. But they do hate it when someone tries to re-asphalt their roads, or help bail their slob neighbor out of foreclosure. And God forbid someone propose a health care program, or increased financial aid for college. Hell, that’s like offering to share your turkey with the other Pilgrims! That’s not what America is all about! America is every Pilgrim for himself, dammit! Raise your own motherfucking turkey!"
An interesting fact from his article is that according to a poll that 39% of respondents who make only 30,000 dollars a year felt federal income taxes were to high but only 32% of the respondents in that category will pay any income tax in 2008. Wow!
Taibi's blog post can be read in it's entirety here.
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