if you think you dislike obama's tax plans...

[rone]

... please consider this summary, which shows that you have little to worry about unless you make over $600k a year.  And if you do, you probably have little to worry about anyway, you rich fuck.

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A few years ago, Michael Apple was a guest lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He told a stroy about his activism registering poor African Americans in -- umm -- some part of New York in the run up to Regan's first election.

Apple and a fellow Democrat activist approached two older men who were sitting on a bench. When the paperwork was successfully completed, one of the men asked the other who he was going to vote for now that he'd been registered.

"Ronald Regan" was his answer.

"Why do you want to vote for /him/?", he was asked.

"'Cos he's not going to raise taxes", was the reply.

"Bert", his friend said, "you don't earn enough to pay taxes".

"I know. But when I win the lottery I don't want them Democrats taking it from me."

Apple wondered, those years later in the Edmund Burke Theatre in TCD, what it would take to get enough people to vote in (what he perceived to be) their own best interest based on the reality of their situations.