Wingnuts play race card to criticize progressive taxation

A headline on the far-right Canada Free Press website and other extremist sites blares, "Higher Taxes on Rich: Discrimination Based on Race?"

In the article, writer John Lillpop claims that progressive taxation is racist.

But how?????

Lollipop groans, "There is a racist element in all this. For the most part, America's rich are Caucasian which means that they are 'fair game' for liberal tax abusers like Obama and Levin."

If progressive taxation is racist against whites, then wouldn't that mean regressive taxation (which conservatives usually support) is racist against nonwhites? I'm not saying it is or it isn't. I'm just pointing out the fallacy of the wingnuts' argument. I'll leave the race-baiting to right-wing loons like John Lillpop who have run out of other arguments. But one thing is clear: Regressive taxation hurts the poor and middle class - and the economy at large.

Even without his playing the race card, Lillpop's article is truly breathtaking in its sheer elitism. I guess he figures that since his articles are read primarily by rich conservatives, he doesn't have to hide his contempt for the poor.

1995 called, Dum-Dum. It wants its politics back.

My blog will not stoop to race-baiting as John Lillpop has. I find it quite ironic that Lollipop would cry "racism!" when his fellow wingnuts have been flooding websites with increasing volumes of thinly veiled racist invective. It's almost beneath my dignity to even answer Lillpop's complaints, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.