Cops and Teachers? THEY Don't Pay Taxes!

[paft.livejournal.com]

Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robin Vos lets us all know what he thinks of those taxpaying Wisconsin citizens who work in the public sector:

The reality is they haven’t had to pay for these things, they’re upset about doing it now, and the taxpayers are the ones who definitely understand this because they get it, they’ve been doing this in the private sector for years, it’s time we had the same thing happen in the public sector…The fact that my Democratic colleagues want to go back to the taxpayer and have them pay higher taxes because someone shouldn’t pay 12% towards their healthcare….We are standing with the taxpayers all across Wisconsin. It’s amazing the outpouring of support that we’ve been getting from the people outside the Capitol Square, the people who are in the reality of the world, not the place that we’re sitting.

Howard Dean does a very good job of refuting Kudlow and Vos’ fiction that the demonstrations are all about the cuts in benefits and not about the elimination of collective bargaining. The capper to this exchange, however, comes near the end of the segment, when a sign appears just over Vos’ shoulder on the right. Not the kind of thing Kudlow could choreograph.

It beautifully highlights the idiocy of Vos' fiction that the demonstrators are, in some fundamental way, less American than other Americans. Does he really think cops and teachers don't pay taxes, or “live in the reality of the world?”

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Actually yes it is:

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html

Good to know that the Republicans are capable of creating crises to exploit in finest Shock Doctrine style.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

obviously your source is partisan and not interested in the facts of the case.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Obviously my source which is a non-partisan budget office is preaching reality as it is, as opposed to reality as the GOP wants it to be. Which admittedly makes it partisan just like pointing out mundane scientific reality like heliocentrism and chemistry as opposed to alchemy is also partisan these days.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

your source is an editorial in some progressive newspaper. try reading the link i posted, which if fact addresses the very article you posted.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Wrong. My source is this:

http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/Misc/2011_01_31Vos&Darling.pdf

I await further rationale as to why you reject my reality to substitute your own.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

yeah, the memo was addressed in that fact check article. deal with it.