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Posted by Patricia L'Herrou
An excellent op-ed piece which explains one of the real reasons congressional Republicans are so upset about Obama.
Even as much of the middle class gets a tax cut or no increase, the well-off will pay more. And before the howling on the right gets too loud, consider that we have just gone through a long era involving a far less frank form of redistribution — upward.
For eight years Rove/Cheney/Bush pulled a reverse Robin Hood—robbing from the poor and giving it all to the rich
For eight years Rove/Cheney/Bush pulled a reverse Robin Hood—robbing from the poor and giving it to the rich