Obama's 30% tax on rich is "totally fair", says Marxist economist Ben Stein

[Joe Republic]

During an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Stein called Obama’s proposed 30 percent tax rate for millionaires “totally fair and it's absolutely necessary.”

“We're headed towards national default,” Stein said. “I mean, no candidate has told you from either party, but we're heading towards default … unless we raise taxes dramatically and cut spending. And raising taxes on people who have incomes of over a million dollars a year seems to me a fair way to start. I don't see any rational reason why people who have that much money should not pay a higher rate of tax. It would be nice if they could keep it, but it would be also nice if we could fly by flapping our wings.”

Where do they dig up these far-left, Keynesian, Saul Alinksyite, class warriors?  This "Stein" fellow must be some kind of European eco-socialist.

[oakvale]

Clearly Stein has been co-opted by the radical, secular, anti-transformational machine.

[Mynheer Peeperkorn von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe]

Fairness has nothing to do with taxes.

[King]

Stein subscribes to the radical neo-socialist doctrines of Ronald Reagan.

[Link]

Stein is afflicted by a severe case of common sense.  Draft his @$$ and put him on the ticket.  I don't care which party.  Just pick one.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Stein is afflicted by a severe case of common sense.  Draft his @$$ and put him on the ticket.  I don't care which party.  Just pick one.

Only if at the top of the ticket is Al Franken.

[Lief]

Frankly, Ben Stein is a timid moderate.

[The Mikado]

Tax Ben Stein's money.

[Big Wiggly Style]

He's an idiot.

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They already pay 35% on earned income, and will pay 39.6% if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire. I assume they're talking about unearned income. There's no reason to tax unearned income at a lower rate than earned income. It was taxed at a higher rate in the '70s.

[Simfan34]

Stein is a class-warfare-agitator.

It's becoming terribly apparent that this "class-warfare" thing is only relevant if the classes are "some people in the GOP" and "everyone, and literally everyone, else". If they keep it up, we'll be seeing a Democratic dominant-party state by the end of the next decade. Seriously.

[Joe Republic]

Stein is a class-warfare-agitator.

It's becoming terribly apparent that this "class-warfare" thing is only relevant if the classes are "some people in the GOP" and "everyone, and literally everyone, else". If they keep it up, we'll be seeing a Democratic dominant-party state by the end of the next decade. Seriously.

Okay, I'm not sure if you're playing along with the joke, or you don't actually know who Ben Stein is and/or what he believes in.

[pillage the village, trash the scene]

He's an idiot.

[TheGlobalizer]

He's an idiot.

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

He's always seemed semi-reasonable on economic matters, too bad he's such a nut when it comes to social/religious/scientific/etc. issues.

[Link]

Stein is a class-warfare-agitator.

It's becoming terribly apparent that this "class-warfare" thing is only relevant if the classes are "some people in the GOP" and "everyone, and literally everyone, else". If they keep it up, we'll be seeing a Democratic dominant-party state by the end of the next decade. Seriously.

Okay, I'm not sure if you're playing along with the joke, or you don't actually know who Ben Stein is and/or what he believes in.

I was thinking that too.

[bullmoose88]

Planning a May Day Parade I see.  Silly Marxists.

[Link]

Planning a May Day Parade I see.

LOL!

Off topic:  That broad Bush is checking out in front of him has amazing cheek bones.