Occupy WS2: Cincinnati Radicals Call For Socialism
The Cincinnati Beacon - Occupy WS2
Uh, The Cincinnati Black Blog has been calling for Occupy Cincinnati to localized the Occupy Wall Street movement. They've chosen, instead, to go off the charts!!!!! Read the extreme proposal outlined in the article by Bob Parks (link.)
Bob started off by proving a strategy that he suggests could work in Cincinnati. Is he right? Probably not, but we can't even justify addressing the strategy issue since the goals outlined in the article are so radical and shocking!
Bob thinks the Occupiers are engaged in class warfare and the 99% should join them in fighting for the following:
1. A 5% asset tax on all personal property in excess of $10 million.
2. A graduated personal income tax going to a marginal rate of 95% when the hedge funders break $100 million a year.
3. A freeze in wages exceeding the living wage for 2 years but with guaranteed full employment, union rights, universal publicly funded healthcare, and NO MORE FORECLOSURES.
4. A securities transaction tax.
Not only do Bob's ideas have little to do with a local movement, since everything on the list would require Congressional action, its simply contrary to American ideals.
The 99% want the 1% to pay their fair share. People are not going to support taxing anyone, including hedge funders, at a 95% rate. There's no moral justification for this.
And people aren't going to support Bob's idea of freezing wages beyond the living wage even if the country gets full employment and the other things he mentioned in return. (I am curious to know how Bob justifies ending foreclosures but not tenant evictions. And if the government ends foreclosures, why not provide universal housing, in a house not an apartment?)
The Cincinnati Black Blog graciously bestows the following rating on Bob Parks' proposal: FAILS!
Isn't there somebody...ANYbody...who can get Occupy Cincinnati to quit fooling around and get to work!!! They've been sidetracked and unfocused; pulled into a fight with the city over the 1st Amendment and the use of a public space; caught issuing a silly set of guiding principles that have very little, if anything, to do with the struggle in Cincinnati; engaged in a power struggle with the unions; and disengaged from the Black community. The people are counting on Occupy Cincinnati to win. Get your act together!!!
Believe!
5 comments:
Historically, the top income tax bracket was much higher than it is currently. In 1944, it was set at 94%. So a 95% top tax bracket is not "socialist" or anti-American at all.
Where did you get your information? That does not sound like the Occupy Cincinnati I'm involved with. Goto the Occuoycincy web page and read our message! Goto the Occupy Wall Street web page and get the real message. Corporate greed and Corporations in politics are one the many issues Occupy stands for.
Change who is in office during the upcoming election. That is a good place to start some changes http://chadely.com/2012/ohio/congress/ohio-districts-2012.html
oc is one of those groups without much intellect to bring about change so instead they resort to public demonstrations HOPING their government will listen while the intelligent ones are plotting to screen and vote potential candidates into office who then can create the change oc obviously is incapable of producing. IN short, oc is just the background filler for a much bigger campaign. everyone needs a couple flunkies...
That was a stupid conclusion. The occupy movements have made the tea party null and void. That's a pretty big accomplishment. They've co-opted the argument taking it from the pretend koch brothers invented so-called activists and put it back into the hands of a real grass roots citizen action movement. The tea party is dead. We don't give a shit about a balanced budget. We want corporate America and the richest 1% to stop using underhanded and illegal tactics. We vote. But who'S the flunky here? It you had any sense you'd understand that it takes more than a 5 minute experience in the voting booth to make a change and that most likely the lobbyists for that rich 1% have probably put the fix in. It doesn't matter if the occuply movement has a plethora of different messages as long as they all
Come under the same umbrella of exposing and changing the injustices caused by corporate greed and the uber rich. Got it now flunkie.
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