Harold Burton
4/6/2012 8:20:00 PM
In article
<b8fbe2c3-b3e4-424d-b4db-d08255f15729@f17g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
Bret Cahill <BretCahill@peoplepc.com> wrote:
> > > Anyway you dodged the question:
>
> > > When disparity of wealth was much less several decades ago, why didn't
> > > the rich complain about the massive injustice causing the large
> > > American middle class?
> >
> > See what I mean, folks?
>
> Everyone sees you dodged the issue:
>
> By GOP logic just a few decades back the rich were obviously suffering
> some great economic injustice of unequal opportunities. We know this
> because disparity of wealth wasn't nearly as great then as today.
>
> After all, weren't the rich as talented, brilliant and capable then as
> today? Weren't the poor as stupid and unproductive then as today?
> Shouldn't the rich have been making as many times more than median
> income then as today?
>
> Clearly the rip off back then was on a scale so massive it sustained a
> thriving middle class!
>
> Thankfully those dark days are on the ash heap of history!
>
> Due to the brilliance of one Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, we were
> able to identify the economic injustice:
>
> The outrageous injustice was, simply put, "the gummint not allowing
> you to keep more of _your_ money."
>
> After all, you really shouldn't be paying any money at _all_ to the
> IRS.
I'm not.
snicker