For All you lucky Poor People....
Ftrain.com has something to say about the current idiotic idea to label the poor 'lucky duckies' and suggest they should pay more of their meager income to support the rest of us.
When I hear that poor folks aren't taxed enough, I think back to those years when, suddenly, unexpectedly reduced to poverty from the middle class, my mother and I ate so much canned tuna that we would swell up during the hot summer because of all the mercury in our bloodstreams. After the 10,000th tuna fish sandwich, I began to identify with the fish. I started taking baths instead of showers. I would see a fisherman and start crying....
But if someone had come in back in the day and wanted to take away some money, if we didn't get that refund out of Mom's taxes, then forget it. No Ftrain, possibly no Paul. Seriously. It was that tight. And even if it wasn't that tight, goddamn it, we deserved a monthly trip to Dairy Queen too, you fuckers, and maybe even a few nice shirts. It just makes me wonder at the inhuman lack of empathy of the person who would tax the poor. I know such a proposal will not get through the House, I know someone has erected a windmill at which I can tilt, but how can anyone lack empathy to that point? How can someone be that awful to even suggest that?
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But what I'm saying is, I hope you will remember to be kind to the poor, even when they are annoying and unattractive, and to those who do not have as much power as you, and even more than kind, fair, and even more than fair, generous. Because whether you believe in Jesus or Allah or no one, whether you believe in a strong market economy or collective farms, there's ideology, and then there's decency, and if you can't have decency, then fuck ideology, you're no friend of mine or anyone, and I hope Pete Seeger comes to your house and sings "Little Boxes" until you, too, want to exercise your second amendment rights.