I have one simple question that I've been asking every time someone proposes painful budget cuts that hurt the already suffering. It is especially useful when they justify those cuts by expounding on the need for shared sacrifice, and a willingness to share pain in the face of a national emergency. My simple question:
What sacrifice is being asked of the nation's millionaires and billionaires and of big successful business?
I have yet to receive a coherent answer. So I'll add one simple request:
Name just one instance in the last 10 years where the millionaires or big corporations were asked to make any sacrifice at all. Just one example.
::crickets::
Paul Ryan's draconian budget proposal ends Medicare and Medicaid, paints a target on Social Security, and explodes unemployment. Necessary shared sacrifice in an emergency? It also lowers the top tax rate on millionaires to 25%. Hella sacrifice there.
How about it, got any examples of actual sacrifices that are being asked of the economic elite?