How they can try and pass this with a straight face as “fair” blows my mind. Sorry Benjamin Franklin. You gave us a Republic if we could keep it; I don’t think we (as Americans) have done a very good job.
It was his position that taxing People at dramatically different rates was "fair". A bureaucrat would pick winners and losers via different "trip-wires" by which tax rates would suddenly elevate, and this long, complicated, agenda-driven taxation scheme was the most "fair".
My position that taxing everyone at the same rate (20%?) would be the most fair was laughed right out of class.
It is the world of double speak, revisionist history, ... etc.
Today the people just let it all go by for the most part. Honestly more attention is paid to the escapades of Brittany, Lindsay, Paris, Pamela, Brad, Angelina, David Hasselhoff etc., than to what is happening in our nation.
Blame the medias for their constant misdirection, the schools for not teaching history, civics, economics, rational thought, etc. all of us for focusing on career, fun, entertainment, sports, partying, no time for the lofty things which many say they can do nothing about anyway so why even bother to know the facts.
We are neck deep and drowning in this philsophy.
WAKE UP AMERICANS OF ALL AGES. PAY ATTENTION. NOW!
I KNOW WE ARE BLIND TO WHAT WE WILL NOT SEE.