With the damage, destruction and cost in lives and money still piling up in the wake of Hurricane Irene it's good to know that the party of God really cares about the people. Or do they? Michelle Bachmann claimed Irene might be a message from God (Seattle Times) then said it was all a joke. Quite funny! Ron Paul came out again claiming we don't even need FEMA, even as this is sizing up as the 10th worst Hurricane in U.S. history. And with poverty and unemployment increasing and the working class being squeezed by huge debt, the highest unemployment rates and foreclosures, the Republicans have a surprising answer: let them eat cake! Just kidding. Actually, they are arguing for INCREASING their taxes! That's right, the party of tax cuts when times are good and tax cuts when times are bad actually think the poor and working class aren't paying their share: NY Times Op Ed.
What? Well, we need someone to pay for all the tax cuts to the rich, the decreased revenue from corporations, the tax breaks to the Fortune 500 (including actually subsidizing them in many cases), the further subsidies to agribusiness that indirectly increase hunger and poverty in Africa, the failure to actually tax hedge fund managers at a reasonable rate (they pay 15% on most of their income) and the death of the "death tax." Not only have increases in regressive taxation hit the poor and working class the hardest (like sales taxes, transit costs and premiums on alcohol and cigarettes), together with a relative flattening of income taxes, but now they actually want them to pay more of the federal taxes the party generally argues we should eliminate altogether. It makes you think that the party really does believe that corporations are people (as Romney recently argued) and likes them a hell of a lot more then those freeloaders with three jobs. Thank God they have God, I just wish they'd get a soul!
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