It's really interesting to see how belligerently simple-minded the republican rhetoric is against any call to consider raising more revenue from the rich. It's gotten to the point where even suggesting they they pay the same rate as the working class is received with outright hostility -- presumably asking them to pay a progressively higher rate is completely off the table.
I'm reminded of the increasingly exasperated efforts of scientists to argue against the ridiculous claims of creationists. At some point, no matter how tolerant, reasonable, or carefully constructed your argument, you hit up against a solid bedrock of fundamentalist ideology that is as immutable as it is irrational.
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