This is a summary of Keith Olbermann's opinion commentary for today, Scott Walker: Follow The Money
Tonight Keith asks the simple question "Why"?
Have you ever wondered what the underlying motivation is behind the Republican conservative economic agenda?
Keith raises the question with devastating precision and then he answers it.
Keith's Question
Why are the Republicans trying to do things like what they’re trying to do in Wisconsin? Why do they want to impoverish the middle class, bust unions, cut staples like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, postpone the retirement age, stop government expenditures on everybody except the rich, increase government expenditures on everybody who’s already rich, smother real small business, redefine “small business” by counting not the number of employees but the number of owners, and a thousand other scams worthy of an economic version of the Spanish Inquisition?
Keith's answer is itself a question.
If you were standing at an ATM machine that spit out a thousand dollar bill every time you pushed any button – and you knew there was no real chance you’d ever be punished for keeping each one of them – how long would you stand there?
Keith makes the point that you would realize that that there is a point when the dollar bills would stop, either because the machine runs out of bills or authorities would catch on, but the time will come when the money stops. Republicans are cashing in while they can... knowing that the jackpot will not last forever.
Because they’re standing at an ATM machine that’s spewing out thousand dollar bills. They know some day it will stop, or they will be stopped from grabbing them. They know that there is a tipping point coming in this country when – to borrow cartoonist Clay Bennett’s priceless imagery - the mice will realize they are mice and the Republicans are cats. They saw the polling that showed that it took barely six weeks for Scott Walker to lose the state GOP its Republican Union members. They know what the changing demographics of the nation suggest about the extinction of Conservatism
They are grabbing those thousand dollar bills.
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Keith presents polling data from today about "how Wisconsin is reacting to Scott Walker’s amateurish impression of the Bush-Cheney-Rove visit to our magical ATM, and it’s pretty stark:"
51% of Wisconsinites are for the unions, 47% for Walker
52% are for Democrats, 47%for Walker
57% are for collective bargaining 37% opposed
55% are for public employees collective bargaining, 41% opposed.
Public support is slipping for the Republicans but the money grabbing is not.
Keith concludes:
The answer is, increase Wisconsin’s corporate taxes so much that they reach the national average!:
Wisconsin corporations underpay state and local taxes by more than $1.3 billion annually: This is the difference between what businesses actually pay in state and local taxes and what they would be contributing if paying at the average national rate.
It would be nice to see the guy standing in front when the ATM starts spitting out those thousands, suddenly have to start depositing them back in. Just once in awhile.
Why are Republicans persisting in their unpopular policies when their poll numbers are slipping? Keith's answer is simple greed.
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