What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.
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I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is. I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means that—sorry, kiddies—you’re on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to pay—not to give, not to “cut a check and shut up,” in Governor Christie’s words, but to pay—in the same proportion. That’s called stepping up and not whining about it. That’s called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesn’t cost their beloved rich folks any money.
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And what's stopping him from cutting extra checks to the IRS again?
If King wants to "step up", he should lead by example and start scratching checks to the IRS, WITHOUT waiting for a tax law to do so. When Tea Party folks want to give or donate, they don't wait for politicians; THEY DO IT THEMSELVES.
Liberals always talk about how much they're willing to pay their fair share. Yet, the $$$ hardly leave their accounts. Are we really supposed to think that King is just DYING to pay more in taxes but he can't because of the current tax laws on the books?
Do those EEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIILLLLL
L Republicans keep sending back King's checks that he can't seem to give to Uncle Sam fast enough, saying "No, thanks!!!"?
Well, France wants to tax the rich, to the tune of 75%. Will Smith turn cold on that one. Maybe King ought to relocate.
