What I've always liked about Moore is he's hard on everyone who doesn't live up to promises or expectations - he doesn't just pick on the GOP (though they certainly deserve every bit of it). He sticks to looking at how things affect average people, and brings up topics not discussed elsewhere in the context of why they started or why they're still important (like labor unions, insurance, etc.). He's the only person I've seen bring up the air traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s and how it affected the way things are today (well, I actually know somebody else who brought it up to me several years ago, but she's not a national pundit).
Have you heard the phrase "cutting payroll taxes" being bandied about now in the media? I don't know where it's coming from, but I'd bet my year's salary it's the Teabaggers/GOP/Koch brothers. It's still talking about cutting/reducing payments into the Social Security and Medicare fund from corporations, but by lumping them in with income and other payroll taxes and addressing it generally, they're hoping to snow people into supporting "cutting" them under the guise of thinking "hey, that means I pay less income tax, more for me! Yay!" Devious assholes; they knew people were starting to catch on to the idea that privatizing or cutting SS and Medicare was a bad idea.
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Date: 2011-08-23 05:55 pm (UTC)Have you heard the phrase "cutting payroll taxes" being bandied about now in the media? I don't know where it's coming from, but I'd bet my year's salary it's the Teabaggers/GOP/Koch brothers. It's still talking about cutting/reducing payments into the Social Security and Medicare fund from corporations, but by lumping them in with income and other payroll taxes and addressing it generally, they're hoping to snow people into supporting "cutting" them under the guise of thinking "hey, that means I pay less income tax, more for me! Yay!" Devious assholes; they knew people were starting to catch on to the idea that privatizing or cutting SS and Medicare was a bad idea.