1/20/15

State of Union; Another Air Guitar Speech on Taxing the RIch?

President Obama's state of the Union speech is widely expected to be an air guitar exercise asking for increased taxes on the rich. Democrats have cut taxes on the rich for years and since 9-11 perhaps trembled at the thought of doing anything else. When Democrats had control of both houses of congress they made Bush II tax cuts permanent with the President leading the way. As a party of by and for the rich the talk of fair tax policy is just an air guitar exercise.

The President has lots else to boast about though. So many Americans have left the work force that unemployment has dropped with help of reconfiguring the way unemployment statistics are reported. Wealth has increasing concentrated and zero interest loans given to banks have let the rich mint their own money to buy stock with. Real wages for Americans (note that the President never talks about the poor-just middle class families- whatever that endangered species is comprised of now) other than the rich have probably decreased during the Obama years and at best were stagnant continuing a 30 year trend.

The President could say that the U.S.A. is queer and getting queerer and at least regarding federal judicial decisions forcing homosexual marriages on the states that would be true. I think it is a fact that if marriage never existed no one would ever have though to create a marriage institution with special benefits for homosexuals alone. The expropriation of marriage for homosexuals is little more than gangsterism plundering a fare institution in a decadent social era. It would have been far better to reform marriage in order to create social justice. Marriages and divorces had increased before the corruption of homosexual marriage and plainly with so many divorces it might have been a wise social action to rectify marriage creating two classes of marriage; those for procreating and raising children and general marriages. It is reasonable to say that Elizabeth Taylor's 7th marriage probably was not needful of the tax and financial helps of a young couple's first marriage. It is plain enough that children born in a first marriage deserve to have a plain and honest heterosexual marriage establishment exist so that they may receive the social, financial and historical protection they ought to have without hogs of homosexuality trampling the institution out of existence.

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