What would these fuckers have done during the post WWII 40's and 50's when the top tier tax rate was between 70% and 90%, and unions were popular?:
During an event at the University of Tennessee’s law school on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested to the capacity crowd that perhaps they should revolt against the U.S government if their taxes ever get too high.
During a question and answer part of the event, a student asked Scalia about the constitutionality of a federal income tax. Scalia assured the questioner that the tax was in fact permissible by the constitution, but added that if it ever became too high, “perhaps you should revolt.”
The remark, first reported by the Knoxville News Sentinel, has become a common rhetorical flourish for conservatives nationwide during the Obama presidency.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/19/3428747/scalia-taxes-revolt/
What conservatives and Teabaggers never want to have a fair and rational discussion about is just how beneficial a progressive tax rate on the wealthy and unions helped America rebound from the devastating economic impact that was the outcome of fighting and winning World War II. It is a subject which they would just as soon leave buried in the sands of time and if given the opportunity, they would bulldoze tons of more sand on top of it.
There's a reason for that. It's because their droning mantra of less taxes for the "job creators" is a masterful con job. It always has been. They started that shit when Reagan came in to office. And look at the downward slide of the country since then. Oh sure -- there are plenty of gutless and spineless Democrats who are just as much to blame for for all of it, but in the overall scheme of things, it has been the conservatives and Republicans who have done the yeoman's work of paving the way for the oligarchs to complete their mission of transforming America into the world's preeminent banana republic.
Aside from Scalia's convenient omission of past tax rate history and the fact that higher taxes on the rich have never doomed the country, but in fact benefited it, what is truly disturbing to The Gadfly is that we have a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice exhorting people to overthrow the government because ---- The Gadfly doesn't really know ---- just because he can???
As the article denotes -- the complete elimination of taxes is one of the core rallying cries of the Teabaggers and the sovereign citizen clowns and the rest of that seditious crowd - and they have not been shy about threatening violence if they don't get their way. Just look at the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995 to get an idea of just how far these fucking losers are willing to go to advance their cause.
Is Antonin Scalia siding with those people and urging them to try and overthrow they government because they don't want to help pay for their public schools, their fresh water systems, their electricity grid, their street and highway maintenance, their community colleges, their social security system, their medicare system, their . . . . fuck .... does The Gadfly really need to rattle off all of the public services and benefits that we Americans get with our tax dollars?
Some reporter or media person who has yet to sell his soul to the corporate devil ought to ask Mr. Scalia that question and record it for posterity.
The Gadfly is done playing nice with the conservatives, and he's a hair's breadth away from even playing fair with them any more. Like our U.S. Marines who find it difficult to deal with terrorists who use despicable tactics of using women and children as battlefield shields, The Gadfly is questioning why he should grant any boundaries of fairness to people of the Cliven Bundy type who have no qualms about putting women at the front of their battle lines.
They are cowards dear readers. They are not rational human beings. They are immoral.
Antonin Scalia, on the other hand, is a coward of whole different color. He uses his power as a SCOTUS to fuck with society. As if he's a demi-god. Well -- he's not a demi-god, and in fact hes nothing more than a bought and paid for whore of the ruling elites.
And the sooner that the majority of America recognizes that FACT, understands the implications of that FACT, accepts that FACT and collectively decides to deal with it -- the better off we all will be.
Oh --- and Fat Tony --- Go fuck yourself you fat useless piece of shit who has no business at all sitting on the highest court of the land passing judgement on others or pontificating on any subject that is meaningful to your fellow citizens ......................................................
----TFG
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