I had an opportunity to watch Bill O'Reilly the other night. I was told the show was a best of 2011 collection of reruns. One prominent theme was griping about Obama's administrations attempt to balance income tax according to middle class economy. huh? yep that's what the man says.
I think Bill and his guests have got it wrong though. Its not how much you make or how much you have after taxes. Its not about how the taxes are spent on those who are for one reason or another unable to be sufficiently employed. Sufficiently employed is a guideline that means nothing as its buried underneath the uber rich cost living in most American urban centers.
This issue of "a new base tax rate for the wealthy to ensure that millionaires pay at least at the same percentage as middle income taxpayers" is a long drawn out calamity that will get nowhere.
The real issue is Random Acts of Economy; i.e. voluntary loopholes in the tax system that go to the rich, corporations and anyone else making BIG dollars.
Why can't we just have Random Acts of Economy that would delete all our nation's income tax loopholes. Only then could Mr. Obama's equalization taxation begin to work.
What? You say tax lawyers and accountants would become obsolete? Well join the club in redirecting your talents and expertise to better opportunities.
The soul behind such Random Acts of Economy is that we do not just live within our own privileged economy. That we live connected to lesser and higher economies.
Really Sweden has got it. Why don't we?
I had the privilege of working on a Random Acts of Kindness project in 2006. Its amazing how many people rejected and over analyzed the acts of kindness offered them in this New York City project where free cups of coffee and a free ride on New York City's transit system were offered. The few who accepted were grateful plus plus.
The project was not wholly pure as it marketed a television series. I'm a fairly good actress and an easy person to talk to in a grocery line so I sensed something far deeper was in play than who I was. I felt the pain of ourselves as a city, as a nation.
