A very small niche of America's uber-wealthy have pulled off what may well be the biggest con job in the history of our republic, and they did it in a startlingly brief 30 or so years. True, they spent over three billion dollars to make it happen, but the reward to them was in the hundreds of billions -- and will continue to be. This money was spent to convince Americans that up is down and black is white. The uber-rich are spending hundreds of millions to make sure words like "burden" are associated with the word "tax," and to convince average working people that they should throw out of office any politicians who are willing to raise taxes on the rich. "No new taxes" is a mantra that is meaningful to the very rich, but largely irrelevant to average working people. The math is really pretty simple. When the uber-rich are heavily taxed, economies prosper and wages for working people steadily rise. When taxes are cut for the rich, working people suffer and economies turn into casinos.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2009/07/great-tax-con-job
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