Webster Tarpley, who describes himself as an investigative reporter, has a post up today at http://tarpley.net/ that strikes me as cutting through a great pile of bull crap presently choking the American political landscape practically to death.
Tarpley says that the limited union protest activity in Wisconsin's protest should be broadened to take in everybody but the famous top 1% of fat-cat capitalists, who own 40% of everything, and proceed to legislate a 1% sales tax on ALL financial trading activity, which presently goes tax free, while every last poor family must pony up (in my state, Texas) 8.25% of the price of even a pair of cheap sneakers for their kids.
Tarpley has a paragraph that practically sings about paying for rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and maybe adding to it (high-speed rails, etc.) with the same tax applied nationally, together with the same zero- or near-zero-percent interest rate loans the Fed is now supplying all the banks for their brisk carrying trade wherein they rip off borrowers from them who pay real interest.
Tarpley sees the Koch billionaire brothers behind the Tea Party and all its dimwitted calls for Friedman-style shock and awe "neoliberal" financial austerity. Well, I dunno. Maybe so. But I do agree with Tarpley that the austerity the GOP is peddling is Hooverism reborn: cut everything and watch everything go to hell. The only vigorous part of our economy is the part the tax-cutters are out to kill. Don't send out those SS checks and see what happens. Maybe that's what should happen to energize the lumpenproletariat. Anyway, read Tarpley and give it a thought.
Tarpley says that the limited union protest activity in Wisconsin's protest should be broadened to take in everybody but the famous top 1% of fat-cat capitalists, who own 40% of everything, and proceed to legislate a 1% sales tax on ALL financial trading activity, which presently goes tax free, while every last poor family must pony up (in my state, Texas) 8.25% of the price of even a pair of cheap sneakers for their kids.
Tarpley has a paragraph that practically sings about paying for rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and maybe adding to it (high-speed rails, etc.) with the same tax applied nationally, together with the same zero- or near-zero-percent interest rate loans the Fed is now supplying all the banks for their brisk carrying trade wherein they rip off borrowers from them who pay real interest.
Tarpley sees the Koch billionaire brothers behind the Tea Party and all its dimwitted calls for Friedman-style shock and awe "neoliberal" financial austerity. Well, I dunno. Maybe so. But I do agree with Tarpley that the austerity the GOP is peddling is Hooverism reborn: cut everything and watch everything go to hell. The only vigorous part of our economy is the part the tax-cutters are out to kill. Don't send out those SS checks and see what happens. Maybe that's what should happen to energize the lumpenproletariat. Anyway, read Tarpley and give it a thought.
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