Let Them Eat Cake!

Because after all, the poor pay too much in taxes. From Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT:

I get a little tired of hearing about the Obama approach of 'shared sacrifice.' Shared sacrifice is something — sounds good — but I'd prefer the Republican approach to shared prosperity. And that's what I think we're all about.

When you talk about 'shared' — think about this — it's pretty irrefutable that the bottom 51 percent of all wage earners, of all households, do not pay income taxes. The top 1 percent — the so-called 'wealthy' — pay 38 percent of all income taxes. The top 10 percent are paying 70 percent of all income taxes. The top 50 percent pay something like 98 percent of all income taxes. Fifty-one percent don't pay anything.

And the video, along with a bit of commentary from The Young Turks:



While some of this may be about playing Tea Party politics, the sad part is that I think he really believes this stuff.