“Republicans fighting for millionaires and billionaires is not a new story,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the floor of the US Senate yesterday. It happens to be the current story too.
Well, in the case of the fiscal cliff, House Republicans are actually fighting for the 2 percent, or the affluent American families who earn more than $250,000 a year.
“…threatening middle class families with higher taxes is their strategy,” Whitehouse said. “The hostage strategy, with the middle class as the hostages, as Republicans fight for who they really care about.”
Sheldon Whitehouse is a remarkable senator.
But, at some point, regular people need to win.
He has the total respect of many.
But maybe he needs a makeover into the fighter that we need to truly win.
I agree we need to tax the rich more; however it is only a needle in the haystack. We need to stop spending like drunken sailors. Even if we taxed the rich at the levels the Presidents wants we still be a trillion dollars over budget next fiscal year. Ouch.