Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association: The poor and middle class should kiss the ground upon the rich walk. And every major city should throw a ticker-tape parade for the rich every week. No, that’s not a hyperbolic rendering, that’s his actual words.
Well that just means that the amount of tax revenues coming from them is about right, since they control 35% of America’s wealth. In fact, the top 10 percent of Americans control 75 percent of the country’s wealth, so 75 percent of our tax revenues should be coming from them. I do not believe this is the case at present, but in the interests of fairness, it should be.
I like it! What a grand spectacle that would be! Rich folks riding down the street in open convertibles, sitting high up and waving at the cheering crowds! Haven’t seen that kind of public display since Kennedy!
Oh, wait. Hmmmm. Maybe not.
They have most of the money and resources, they can throw their own damn parades
No, no, I think that’s a *fine *idea. We will, after all, have many, many good people with guns to stop any bad person with a gun, all along the parade routes.
I see no way in which this could go horribly wrong for us. 
I’m confused…are we the good guy with a gun or the bad guy with a gun? I have trouble telling them apart until they kill a school kid or something.
Well, for a few years now the rich have been noble Job Creators. And for those who propose to reward them for their contribution, I say that they have already been rewarded with boatloads of money.
Fischer seems to be taking a new tack, that the parades and kissing the ground is owed to them for paying their taxes. It’s still bullshit, but it’s slightly different bullshit.
Depends on the moral character of the school kid.
Neither, I think. We are the clueless spectators, standing by to speculate after the spectacle.
On lawn chairs, with pop-corn, of course.
And so much the better for both! 
I really, really hope Brannon wins the primary.
It must be nice to be a Teabagger . . . even your enemies cheer you on . . .
Dr. Bannon is proof that a doctorate can’t be all THAT hard to get …
Generally speaking, the wealthy pay a share of taxes higher than their commensurate share of income. I’m not making this as a political point (as I believe it to be appropriate), but just laying out the facts in general.
This is a little old, but was the quickest cite I could found that directly referenced the CBO, which is pretty non-partisan.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/10/cbo-rich-pay-outsized-share-taxes/
Unfortunately, these dumbasses sometimes win the election. Then we get people like Congressman Paul Broun, a high-ranking member of the House Science Committee, who thinks that “evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell”.
He said that months ago, and he is still on the committee.
What should we take from the fact that Brannon is running for office, you think? Is he a hardline communist? Or just a small-S socialist?
http://www.thelostogle.com/2014/04/2…-solar-energy/
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on Monday that Oklahoma’s new law essentially fining homeowners who install solar energy panels, while disappointing, represented an advance of sorts for champions of renewable energy.
“Maybe this means that alternative energy — like solar energy — is now viable enough to be an actual threat to the bottom line of the oil and gas and coal industries. We say it’s the four stages, right? First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Well, solar has apparently moved on from being ignored or laughed at, and now they’re fighting it.”…
You may suspect the Krotch Brothers were behind this using the group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) - and you’d be right (right - get it - just kill me).
As far as I understand the controversy, that’s a pretty stupid summary of it.
People who have solar panels or whatever still have to be connected to a power utility. The infrastructure of remaining connected to the utility company must be paid somehow – in most places, it’s a combination of a low general service charge, plus the actual use of the utility. So when you pay your 8 cents a kilowatt hour (or whatever) for electricity from the power company, a lot of that money isn’t just used for the cost of generating electricity – it’s also used to pay for the cost of maintain the whole electrical delivery infrastructure.
If I set up a solar panel farm on my land that takes care of 99% of my electrical needs, there is still a whole infrastructure that must be maintained to deliver that last 1% of my energy. The cost of the infrastructure isn’t based on how much electricity I buy – a power substation still costs what it costs.
Some places want people who use mostly power that they generate by themselves to pay their fair share of the fixed cost of being connected to the grid. IMHO, that’s fairly reasonable. It isn’t necessarily about hating hippies and loving Big Oil.