Sauce For The Big Stupid Goose

If it's appropriate for Conyers and Rangel to propose ironic legislation like re-instituting the draft, then I think it's time for some Republican to propose increasing the income tax to 100%. Or, better still, 110%.

Now, it's a given that some people won't catch the irony (mostly people on the L-E-F-T, as they say in Georgia), and that's the beauty of the idea --- it's a perfect idiot-trap. Some will say, "Well, finally the Republicans have come to their senses!" and make grandiose speeches backing the bill and the new bipartisan spirit it represents. Some will decided to oppose it (it is a Republican measure, after all), and make grandiose speeches of their own:

SEN. DUMBASS: Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that members of this house have proposed that we take the last 10% of the income of working Americans. That last ten percent may not mean much to the rich folks that the Administration represents, but to working Americans it represents the difference between a decent living and not having enough money to put shoes on the table. Decent men of conscience would have known that 100% is enough, and I will fight to my last breath to leave the hundred and first through hundred and tenth percent in the hands of the people of this great country!

Hilarity ensues as the American public gets to see who believes the wealth of the country belongs to its government, and who among their elected officials is not very good at math.

Posted by Steve at January 16, 2003 01:10 PM