Thursday, April 03, 2008

Now That Bush Is Going, Billionaires Turn To.....Joe Bruno?

George Bush has but a few months left in his tragedy of a Presidency, so one of his staunchest "supporters," Billionaires for Bush have decided to get local and go to Albany to help out their dear friend Joe Bruno help protect the rich while the state budget is being decided.

Alright, you probably guessed that wasn't exactly the case, Bruno has enough friends to get his anti-working and middle class shoved down our throats. So that is why Joe Seeman and others came to Albany to lobby (outdoors style) legislators to put back the Working Families Party' proposal to add an additional temporary tax to those that make a million dollars a year. In their shpeel they make some very good points.

From The NY Daily News:

Billionaires for Bruno
Class Privilege, Not Class Action

Rob M. Blind and Phil T Rich, Co-Chairs
Hal E. Burton, Treasurer
Iona Bigga Yacht, Secretary

Thank You, Senators, for Defeating the Millionaires Tax
Mission Accomplished – No, You Can’t
The Campaign Checks are In the Mail

Top Ten Reasons why the Taxing the Rich is a Bad Idea

1. Tax Work, Not Wealth

2. Taxes are Not for Everyone; Only Little People Pay Taxes

3. It’s Going to Cost a Bundle to Buy both the State Senate and Presidential
Elections in 2008

4. Its Hard to Feed Your Family on a Million Dollars a Year

5. Show Me the Money - Greed is Good

6. The Yacht Needs a Paint Job

7. The Maid Wants Bus Fare

8. A million a year is not that much when you have 2 kids in Ivy League
Schools, vacation homes in the Hamptons and the Vineyards, housekeepers, nannies,
groundskeepers, chauffeurs, butlers and tax shelter experts to pay, and a
large residence on Central Park West

9. What’s Good for New York is Bad for the Wealthy

10. New York is Number 1 in Income Inequality – Let’s Keep it that Way


Sadly, the real reasons Bruno opposes the measure are probably scattered within that list, minus the irony of course. The best proponent we had was Sheldon Silver (sic) and now he thinks it is most likely dead. Of course you have got to hand it to these billionaires (at least in spirit) for going up to Albany to state their case so humorously.