On April 15, anti-tax folks appeared like mushrooms after a spring rain. Nobody likes paying taxes, but these folks seemed to be about more than just that. They complained about Barack Obama being a socialist or a communist or a fascist. Where have they been the last 8 years? The president they supported took a budget surplus from Bill Clinton and turned it into a huge deficit. He drove the economy into the deepest ditch since the Great Depression. He invaded a sovereign nation, Iraq, shedding U.S. soldiers' blood and innocent Iraqi citizens' blood and hundreds of billions of tax dollars. And for what? No weapons of mass destruction. He ignored international law, supported torture, denied prisoners' rights, wiretapped U.S. citizens. And Barack Obama is a fascist?
Barack Obama is trying to fix the mess he inherited from the previous president. It's going to take a while to see much progress. And yes, he's going to raise taxes on the have-lots rather than on the have-nots for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks: because that's where the money is.
As for the tax-day protests, this was a "grass roots" effort in name only. These folks were expertly manipulated by the rich, the Republicans and a certain right-wing news channel. This wasn't a movement from the bottom up, this was a movement from the Fox down.
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