Brief diary. Over in TPM, they have a story up about how Tom Perkins, the billionaire venture capitalist claimed that liberals are on the verge of "Kristallnacht" because they criticize the wealthy, said in a speech that the 1% should have more votes.
"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes," Perkins responded, as quoted by CNNMoney. "But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How's that?"
From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, first published in 1961:
Then there was the educated Texan from Texas who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means -- decent folk -- should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk -- people without means....
"You're right," Yossarian shouted back. "You're right, you're right, you're right. The hot dog, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mom's apple pie. That's what everyone's fighting for. But who's fighting for the decent folk? Who's fighting for more votes for the decent folk? There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either."
The difference, of course, is that Catch-22
intended to be funny.