[Michael.SF.]

BDS still stronger than ever.

WaPo cannot be linked to so I found this at a Blog.

[for-q-clinton]

Poor southerners who backed slavery...I believe the proper term for that is Democrats.

[samtheman]

And I compare rich people who are against the tax cuts to every anti-economic-growth nobleman who ever lived in every aristocracy throughout history across the face of the globe.

It’s as old as slavery, really, the desire of the Upper Haves to keep the middle class down so that they “know their place”.

[central_va]

Maybe the war wasn’t really about slavery? Certainly, Lincoln didn’t think so.

[samtheman]

WaPo cannot be linked...

Wow. Is that true? Can't even link? Filthy socialist anti-freespeech commie propagandists.

[Carley]

The constant attacks on American voters who wish for less debt piled onto our grandchildren, less intrusion into our daily lives, and a more open and transparent government serves only to further alienate people from the dem party.

[Freddd]

Weird they don’t report on the Billions Americans are now forced to pay for Reparations of Slavery in pigford and Pigford II, eh?

[Above My Pay Grade]

>>>Americans are wondrous optimists, looking to the upper class and expecting to join it someday<<<

While this optimism might account for some small part of lower income opposition to unreasonably high taxes on the rich, I don't believe it is the main reason and is certainly not the only one.

Many lower income people oppose unreasonable taxes on the rich because:

a) They believe it is morally wrong to, unjustifiably, take what someone has lawfully earned to give it to others that have not earned it.

b) They understand that high taxes on the rich can severely damage the economy and that the middle class and the poor will be suffer more in a bad economy than the rich do.

c) They understand the the “progressive” definition of “rich” is always being applied to people of lower and lower incomes. As Rep. Thaddeus McCotter put it in his famous “How to speak Democrat” talk on the House floor, “’The rich’ means...YOU.”

[poobear]

Most white Southerners migrated to America well after the Civil War. They settled the South and bug infested ares like Florida because the land was cheap.

The biggest racists I ever met were from the North! Did you hear me Yankee boy Jimmy?

[Tax Government]

Anybody who still buys the WaPo should instead buy a cheap bolt-on bidet; for $35 you can eliminate the need for WaPo forever.

[curiosity]

Yes, that's a pretty silly comparison, but I have to say, the rest of the article was very good.

[K-Stater]

...Americans are wondrous optimists, looking to the upper class and expecting to join it someday. In 1860, many subsistence farmers aspired to become large slave-owners. So poor white Southerners supported slavery then, just as many low-income people support the extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy now.

Poor white Southerners supported slavery because no matter how dirt-poor they were, they were always at least one level above the slave. Is this guy really suggesting that people supported the Bush tax cuts for the same reason?