So Toronto's mayor has compared the city councillors who.refuse to get rid.of a local land.transfer tax as two steps left of.Stalin. Now Stalin was, in most bad respects, the equivalent of Hitler. And Hitler was.pretty bad. Easily the worst person in the history. And Stalin is right there next.to him!
I think he.meant Karl Marx. Or maybe he should.have gone.with someone less historically bloody.
But that leads into the US primary debates. Mitt Romney paid 13.9% one.of.the.years based on his.tax.returns. So no one wants to talk about class warfare (republicans) but imagine the president of the united states not paying his.share of.the.taxes. How.does.he.have the.moral ground to.raise.them on the lower class by letting the Obama cuts expire?
The cynic.in me.can't help but notice how.unfair.the.us system is - and how little chance they have to.change it. Add.to.the.fact that 47% of.Americans.pay no income.tax (being poor or having kids the.major reasons, but large credits for.mortgages) and.you realize that it's not the.rich against the.poor.
It's the.middle class against everyone.else.
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