Videos for you
Published by Sabotabby March 3rd, 2008 in A million ways to mortgage the future, Big Business, Imperialism for Dummies, Military bullshit, Shame on you for not being rich white and privileged, Video, Violence, WarHere’s one, from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, that should put a smile on your face:
Of course, we here in Canada recognize this as satire. I’m not sure that it reads that way to Americans. What do you think?
Hat tip: Audra Williams
And here’s one that really won’t put a smile on your face: American soldiers in Iraq: Protecting you from terrorist puppies.
(Warning: animal cruelty.)
Hat tip: mercenarytoast
We here in “America” refer to the flat tax as the “fair tax.” (Chalk one up for right-wing phrase-mongers.) So this video is initially confusing just because we understand “fair taxes” to be regressive tax-the-poor, spoil-the-rich schemes.
Once that confusion is sorted, I have no problem catching the satire. We’re in our second Bush recession by now, no thanks to the corporate welfare program of the last seven years or so. I don’t know anyone who would attempt to argue that cutting taxes for corporations results in an increase of wealth across the board with a straight face these days.
I don’t know, some of my libertarian friends argue that with a straight face. One of them seems to thing that capital gains taxes are the most “regressive” taxes because they “tax you for being good and profitable”.
Antigone: Perhaps I should have clarified that I don’t know any stupid people.