Maybe House Republicans are really onto something just now. Holding up approval for extending the limit on government debt might just be a republic’s blind, but intuitive, way to get to the bottom of a smelly situation. Without that debt approval, where might the money have to come from for government to continue its business?
I can think of a few CEO’s whose combined annual incomes might make a serious dent in the national debt. I can think of a few CEO’s that have already made a dent in a lot of average folks pay. Maybe House Republicans have the same idea. It sometimes gets rumored that all this nation would really have to do to settle its debts are to return to the corporate tax rates of the nineteen-fifties levels for a few years. As long as Congress—in the process—doesn’t put the average tax payer back in the past position of carrying the largest portion of the tax burden in order to repay J.P. Morgan and associates for the cost of World War II (i.e. this era’s war on terrorism, social security for working citizens, fair trade, and sustainable energy), I think I can support it. I just don’t see a boogey man around the corner when it comes to asking corporations to pay their fair share of a tax burden they have helped to create.
Are House Republicans testing the waters of our republic and perhaps wanting to see whether government has the power to actually default on its obligations? To whom do those obligations really exist? Maybe House Republicans are less worried about receiving their own government paychecks next month than getting to the bottom of something they suspect might be smelly. Well, I guess we’re all about to find out whether House Republicans are performing a little dog and pony show to provide President Bush a little red herring with a meaningless little “victory,” or whether House Republicans are truly fed up. Do a large number of House Republicans suspect that something isn’t quite right in the land of the free and the brave?
The question House Republicans may really be asking with their action: Is this nation so enamored with remaining One Market Under God that it finds itself paralyzed rather than demanding public accountability from its business and government leaders?
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