But what I don't understand is why so many conservatives simply refuse to see the benefits of what would amount to a HUGE tax cut. Yes, it is "unfair." Life is unfair. The tax code is deeply unfair. Matter of fact, I think that just about any tax break that someone else gets that I don't is unfair.
This mentality is nearly universal. It is what the Democrats so successfully tap into every time they accuse Bush and the Republicans of "squeezing the middle class" to give a tax break to the rich.
If your sole standard for supporting a tax break is "fairness," then how can you support any tax breaks at all???
But what I don't understand is why so many conservatives simply refuse to see the benefits of what would amount to a HUGE tax cut. Yes, it is "unfair." Life is unfair. The tax code is deeply unfair. Matter of fact, I think that just about any tax break that someone else gets that I don't is unfair.
This mentality is nearly universal. It is what the Democrats so successfully tap into every time they accuse Bush and the Republicans of "squeezing the middle class" to give a tax break to the rich.
If your sole standard for supporting a tax break is "fairness," then how can you support any tax breaks at all???
This goes beyond "unfair."
It goes beyond "stupid."
It's got to have MLK turning in his grave, fuming in anger, banging his fists against his coffin, screaming "YOU IDIOT!"
This IDIOCY turns back the clock on EVERYTHING positive done with race relations in this country over the past half century.
I remember seeing the Little Rock stuff on the news when it happened, and I was at demonstrations where I listened to Stokely Charmichael. Yes, I was a left-wing radical hippie back in the '60s. I was at the Pentagon in '67 with Abbie Hoffman.
I grew up since then.
And Alan Keyes just took a mega-leap backwards.
This is SO far beyond crazy that it shouldn't even have to be explained. And it HAS been explained to exhaustion, anyway.
So I won't try to explain it again -- the reasons WHY it is crazy.
All I will say is that this is a formula for a race war that will destroy this country -- and that the REASON it was originally proposed (by the left) was *because* it had potential for a race war. It was the ultimate blackmail against whitey. "Give us what we want, or we call for reparations. Either way you lose."