Let me get this straight: House Democrats needed more pages than a Harry Potter novel just to say three little words? Because the headline I pulled out of the massive health care reform bill they released yesterday was "Tax the rich."
I know this tune plays well to the populist sentiment running rampant in this country, but as a mantra of fiscal federal policy, it falls woefully short. And never mind the hints of class warfare here. Better evacuate the Bastille, because, to paraphrase a forgotten French count, this isn't a rebellion, it's a revolution.
(And I also know there are a host of other issues with this proposed legislation, such as employer and individual mandates, benefit caps and the dreaded public-plan alternative, but what bugs me the most today is the funding. Maybe it's because I had to pick up lunch yesterday.)
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