How Much Would You Pay?

"How much do you think I should pay in taxes?" said the one percenter.

The faces on the crowd of ninety-nine percenters went blank. They were not prepared to talk percentages...

For a few weeks now, I have been offering a free download of the book, Battle Stations for All. Had anyone bothered to actually read it they would know two things. First, for an American citizen, no price is too much to pay - no cost too high - to save the United States of America! Second, the correct answer is (for the rich) ninety point five percent until the national debt is paid!

The alternative is: we nationalize all banks and corporate holdings, and we confiscate all unearned wealth!

Oops, there goes the vacation to the Caribbean... But, don't look so downcast. The average Joe can't afford to take a vacation. He can't afford a new Mercedes. He can't even afford to pay your dry cleaning bill.

"Wouldn't you like to be rich too?" says the one percenter.

Maybe, but I'd like to get rich the honest way: by walking into a bank with a gun. That is more 'honorable' than swindling little old ladies, and starving helpless women and children...

The one percenters steal peoples dreams and crush their hopes. And, then they want to wax self-righteously about how cool they are... They think that everybody secretly wants to be assholes like they are.

God, I hope not.

There has to be something more to life than being a hypocritical sonofabitch...

Then some 'Uncle Tom' jumps in and says, "That's what I'm talking about - democratic discourse!"

Let's talk about something else. There is no real democratic discourse in this country. Corporate Capitalism won't allow it.

Then the one percenter says, "Don't blame capitalism. It's the government that has fucked up the economy, and the whole country."

You hear that you stupid politicians? From the gate, the Corporate Capitalist is ready to throw you under the bus. Yet, you are content to keep puckering up to kiss that ass. It ain't nothing like Mr. Smith goes to Washington, is it?

How about some of your stupid cliches, like 'tax and spend'... or 'big government'... or the 'welfare state'. 

Whose welfare?

It damned sure ain't the welfare of the American people. 

You cut food to the hungry and then give yourself a raise... and take those fat envelopes and stick them in the pockets of your expensive suits... talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time... and, then wonder why nobody believes a word you say.

"You're all communists!" shouts the one percenter.

And, they wonder why everybody is joining the Occupy Movement...

Hey Pal, not everybody who hates your ass is a communist. But we all sure are getting sick and tired of your shit.

And, that's the Truth!