Ok.. Fuck You Lawrence O'Donnell and MSNBC

[BlueStreak]

84. Exactly. I think the OP missed the point.

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It is like a lot (maybe even the majority) of controversial posts here at DU. People go off half cocked on their tiresome rants without taking the time to actually try to understand what the poster was trying to say.

O'Donnell did verbalize the case against broadening the income base -- essentially that makes it seem more like a welfare program because then there would (apparently) be a greater disconnect between the contributions made by the richest and the benefits paid out to the richest.

If that is all one heard, then one might draw the OP's conclusion.

But you can't take snippets out of context. He was presenting the best case for that argument. He then followed it IMMEDIATELY with the statement that over the past 50 years the rich have found so many ways to distort income and taxation in their favor. Consequently, the best case argument is no longer valid. And then he said the real-world argument is too complicated to cover in a short segment, so he is going to allocate a longer segment to it in his next program.

Folks. Please read before you rant. Please listen before you rant. The MSNBC hosts deserve strong criticism from time to time, but this was not such an occasion.