Forum Post: TAKE THE MESSAGE TO THE FAT CATS AT HOME

I have a suggestion - Let's take it to them wherever they live and work:

Find out the names and home (or work) addresses of the top 2% gross income Americans – who own 70% of all of the assets and pay a far lower tax % than the rest of us.

Then gather together groups (jobless, poor, students, etc.) of Americans around the country and take them with you when you go to these addresses and interview these wealthy citizens.

Ask them some basic questions about fairness and what “Citizenship” means to them – and what they would like to say to this group of American citizens – who could use their help.

Why should they have a top tax bracket of only 24% and not 29% or more so that citizens who desperately need help from their government can actually get it?

If they own 70% of the assets, can’t they afford to invest some of that in their fellow Americans to enable them to gain the education and jobs they need to get our economy growing again – thereby increasing the wealth of all Americans – not just them?

Exactly how many jobs are they “creating” each year with all of those assets – as their conservative friends in Congress claim they do?

Would they really stop creating new jobs if their top tax bracket went up to 29% - as their conservative friends in Congress claim they would? Wouldn’t they still own most of the assets in America? Do they need 100%?

I hope you can see where I’m going with this. I’m sure you could come up with much more penetrating questions to show America what we all need to do to change this situation.

Please do something spectacular to try to show the conservative Scrooges in this country how mean and greedy they all are – and how they really are out to make themselves even richer while they make sure the federal government cannot sustain itself or its vital social programs.

Go for it! We need to see you out there – embarrassing the hell out of these fat cats and their puppets in Congress.