Priorities
Every now and then I am reminded of exactly why I am not a Republican.
It is not that they are evil — it is that they are mean.
Listen to NPR's reporting on the middle class tax cut extension. For most of the story I was thinking hey, the Republican Congressional leadership sounds pretty reasonable. Now might not be the best time for a tax cut, but if you were going to have one it might as well be for the middle class. Sure it's an election year stunt, but this is, after all, an election year.
But the last minute (or so) of the report blew my mind: mean, mean, mean.
It is worth mentioning that those in the bracket the Republicans screwed over (for no apparent reason other than general dislike of poor people) make less in a year than a congressperson does in a month and that even though the threshold income above which a percentage credit can be claimed has risen with inflation, the actual income of these people has fallen or stayed the same.
See the Washington Post's article on the situation for more. Compassion, my ass.