Ben Stein (yes, that Ben Stein) calls for progressive taxes

[Doctor_J]

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/ (scroll down)

Is it right or even admissible in the human conscience that while teachers, emergency room technicians, police and firefighters are taxed at full earned-income rates — and often underpaid — that the highest-earning people in this country should pay at either very low tax rates or none at all?

Or, put it like this: do we dare send our men and women to fight for an America in which the very rich are so favored by the government that it amounts almost to an aristocracy?

Long ago, I had a European history teacher named Mrs. Enright. She explained to me that one of the causes of the French Revolution was the sad truth that the aristocracy was not taxed at all, while the workers and burghers were taxed highly. Is this our future?

I wonder if Schumer read this.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. It's somewhat colder in Hell now...

[meegbear]

2. Schumer? ...

Schumer?... Schumer? ....

[Doctor_J]

3. Anybody?

[comtec]

4. OMFG!!!! Hell has ice skating!!!!!

Wow.. a real ultra conservative suggesting a *GASP*... FAIR?!?!?!! Tax system?
some one pinch me, this just CAN NOT be true!

[Captain Hilts]

5. His father, Herbert Stein, Ford's economic adviser, has been saying this for years. nt

[comtec]

6. His father is still alive?

Ben Stein's no spring chicken!
But c'mon, the neocon's don't give a rat's severed, flying ass about doing what is RIGHT, or at least WISE... it's all about the me me me bullshit! The dutch have a (childish) saying:

ikke ikke ikke en de rest kan stikke! (me, me, me and the rest can die!)

[Captain Hilts]

7. I think he died a couple of years ago. But he was on the Diane Rehm show about 10yrs ago...

talking about this issue with other former Prez. economic advisers, like Laura D'Tyson, etc.

Stein is the one that brought up the topic of the wealth gap being the country's number one economic problem and Tyson thanked him for saying so, "because if I do it, I'm criticized for starting 'class warfare'."

[comtec]

8. But it IS Class warfare!

Not that I'm responding to you directly! :)

And the sooner people accept that and do something ABOUT IT the better.
I'm hardly anti-rich, but just because they have money should not entitle them to be above the law!
They need to pay taxes like the rest of us because if not for the great government, they would not have their fortunes!

*sigh* oh well I suppose I'll go back to my corner with my tin foil hat, talking about class warfare :p

on edit: clarifying I'm arguing the point of Class Warfare some how being a taboo issue, not the poster, who is kewl :)

[ChazII]

9. Correct.

Both parents have passed away, I believe.