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

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I like the word "power" better. This is about power, and its about time we stop with the pious verbiage and come to terms with what is going on. They have a power, and they are seeking destroy another power. I am siding with labor power. That's it. This is the game. Win or lose, with no apologetics. Hoist the sails ye sons of England!

[paft.livejournal.com]

Using "power" in this manner implies that labor power is as pervasive and well-funded as the power of the private sector. Sorry, but it's not -- or at least it's not in the United States.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I agree with that.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

Stay the mainsail! Jibber the jigs! Secure the pointy things! Run up the lines! Run about! Act like you're doing something! Stow the heavy things, heave the stowed things!

What we need is some:

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

class warfare

Re: What we need is some:

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the party of big business trying to curtail the rights of workers to organise is class warfare.

The world is broken when it's only class warfare when the workers fight back.

Re: What we need is some:

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

No, your confused. When the GOP fucks workers over it's not class warfare--it's economic policy.

When workers strike, it's class warfare.

And the world keeps spinning

Re: What we need is some:

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you have an entire population that not only hasn't read Marx, but thinks everyone who has is a Communist.

Re: What we need is some:

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? We have read plenty of Groucho....

Hear Hear!!!

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

And I side with management.

Dueling benefits at dawn.