How to pay for free health care? Tax the rich, of course.
The [AP] poll tested views on an even more punitive taxation scheme that was under consideration earlier, when the tax would have hit people making more than $250,000 a year. Even at that level the poll showed majority support, with 57 percent in favor and 36 percent opposed.
“You know, I mean, why not? If they have that much money, it should be taxed,” said Mary Pat Rondthaler, 60, of Menlo Park, Calif. “It isn’t the same way that the guy making $21,000 is.”
Ms. Rondthaler, a self-described short fat woman with a big butt “usually shops at Talbots and Bloomingdales” but most assuredly is not thinking of volunteering her own money to help the needy. That’s for the despicable rich. Rondthaler needs what she has to buy $1,500 cashmere overcoats, in, one assumes, Xtra-large.
Mary Pat, by the way, runs an interior decorating business: Feathered Nest Design, Redwood City, 650-575-1104. I wonder if it would be rude to give her a call and ask how her rich clients will be able to afford her services if they’re taxed out of existence?
3 Comments
November 26, 2009 at 10:25 am
Let me get this straight. You want people who make over $250k a year to call and harrass a woman at her place of business because you don’t like her opinion about taxes and want her punished.
Dumb and meanspirited.
November 26, 2009 at 10:26 am
It’s either that or watch the Detroit Lions – what else should we do?
November 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Now if this woman were to be the one paying the taxes, I would guess she might see it differently. It’s useless to explain it to her, she probably wouldn’t get it. In one form or another, we have all heard the old adage, If you can make the 51% happy, it doesn’t matter what the other 49% think. You still win the election. That’s great, I guess but there are always the unintended consequences that sneak up from behind.