"For a generation, Republican policymakers have rigged national tax policy to reward the wealthy, and then reward them some more. We’ve seen the class gap reach Gilded Era levels, only to hear GOP officials again demand that working families 'sacrifice' while lavishing more breaks on the very wealthy. Remind me, who’s engaged in 'class warfare' and 'dividing people'”? -- Steve Benen in Washington Monthly, skewering the Rethuglican / New Confederate Party's "coddling of millionaires and billionaires," as Warren Buffett put it recently.
Despite polls showing an overwhelming majority of Americans want taxes raised on the highest incomes, the Rethugs continue to side with their wealthy benefactors against the middle class. As billionaire Buffett has also said, there's an economic class war underway, and the rich are winning it.
