The Real Question

From The Free Ride For Those Who Can Afford To PayTax Foundation, a scare headline

Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95%

sure to moisten the underwear (But not in the good way!) of the parasite class & those who worship at their feet in hopes of receiving crumbs & other "trickle-downs." The author of the piece, one Scott A. Hodge, has never, as you might imagine,held an actual productive job in his life, having decided to become a parasite on the parasites (That blood must be getting pretty thin.) His "career" stretches from one "foundation" to another.

Before joining the Tax Foundation, Scott was Director of Tax and Budget Policy at Citizens for a Sound Economy. He also spent ten years at The Heritage Foundation, including eight years as Heritage’s Grover Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs. Scott began his career in Chicago where he helped found the Heartland Institute in 1984. He holds a degree in political economy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

His frightening to non-working coupon-clippers & dividend-depositors headline of course ignores the real question, which is how much of what's been created by the working people of this country is owned or controlled by the 1% parasites, compared to just how much wealth the 95% who made it own/control. We imagine Mr. Hodge could have had a flunky look it up, but that would imply he gave a shit about anything or anyone beyond his masters. And that just wouldn't do, would it?

We could look it up ourselves, but we are both lazy & un-serious, unlike apologist-for-the-wealthy Hodge, so we didn't. The facts are generally known, anyway. Them: Power, Wealth, Hired Guns, no numbers beyond those they can fool or buy. "Real America:" The Numbers, & supposedly a lot of guns they're willing to use for something they call "freedom." Not freedom from oppression by the wealthy & their corporate entities though. So oppressed, for so long, they can't see the forest or the trees.