[lbo-talk] tax burden (was: authentically working class

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Fri Sep 12 08:25:07 PDT 2008


Besides which, only the capitalist class pay taxes. It is not a burden to us.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas

At 7:48 AM -0700 12/9/08, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>I can understand right wing trolls ranting against taxes but it
>really pisses me off when self-styled lefities pick up that rant.
>But then again, one of the most iritating and idiotic aspects of the
>US (and English speaking I may add) left is its cocky individualism
>and irrational visceral hatred of anything public, not to mention
>institutional. It is irritating and idiotic, because the left has
>no chance against the right in playing that game - yet insist on
>paying it and then gets pissed when it keeps losing to the point of
>total irrelevance. Robert Fitch makes that point quite eloquently
>in his account of tha pitfalls of the US trade unionism (_Solidarity
>for Sale_).



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