Posts Tagged “socialism”

I wanted to write in response to an article from Salon.com today posted on Twitter by @taxgirl . While the article was meant to be a sarcastic take on “Joe the Plumber” and his socialist rantings, the premise of the article absolutely broke my heart.

The focus was on taxes and the claim that Obama wants to take the money out of the hand of working Americans and redistribute it to the ’slobs’ and ‘losers’ in this country.  But the best part was the satirical analysis of actually how much a person making over $250,000 would be giving up to help take some pressure off struggling Americans.

Ready for this?  $257 bucks.

All of that griping and cries of socialism for $257 bucks!

And that’s in the case of a person that just crosses the tax bracket.  I’m even more disgusted with the big corporations out there crying socialism and issuing public threats such as “Under Obama’s tax plan, we will have to reduce our spending which will eventually cost jobs for American workers”.

Really?!

Under John McCain, the largest corporations would recieve $45 Million in tax breaks.  And you know what these companies will do with their tax breaks?  They’ll open new factories in Taiwan and Indonesia because they can employ 15 workers at $5 a day as opposed to one American at $75 a day.

And with this same money that they used to take away our jobs, they will produce cheap products using cheap materials that eventually make us sick or put us in danger (Case in point: lead paint toys, toxic dog food, tainted baby formula, contaminated heparin).

And when your baby drinks toxic formula or you are injected with contaminated heparin in the hosptial, who is gonna foot the bill?  Certainly not the ‘poor’ corporation that put their profit ahead of your livelyhood.

I say these companies shouldn’t get one red cent in the form of a tax break becuase clearly they are doing a wonderful job saving on labor and manufacturing costs and really don’t need additional help from me.

Beyond that, if you are blessed to make more than 95% of the rest of us in this country, how could you be so selfish as to not wanting a small portion of your money going to a single mother of 3 that came down with cancer, is sick to death from chemo and relies on government assistance just to survive?

How can you turn a blind eye to the millions of people facing foreclosure and homelessness,  yet you are the first one to rally for a bailout when you see a dip in your 401(k)?

All I can say is this.  Your money could be gone tomorrow.  All it takes is a few unfortunate turn of events to find yourself homeless and begging for state aid– and one day the policies of greed and selfishness that you advocated may very well come back and bite you when you least expect it.