Doubling Down On Insanity

by JASmius

And I mean in EVERY sense of the term:

Nervous that Social Security seems under siege from all sides, congressional liberals on Wednesday proposed raising the payroll tax that funds the program, but only for people earning more than $250,000 a year.

The legislation is designed to keep the pension program solvent for the next 75 years, which is the standard used by government actuaries, by putting an additional $6.5 trillion into the Social Security trust fund over that period. The plan also is intended to head off other efforts to overhaul the program or trim benefits, or to use its funds to help pay for debt reduction.

"No more discussion about raising the retirement age, no more discussion about cutting benefits, no more discussion about privatization," said Senator Bernard Sanders, [Communist]-Vermont, one of the sponsors.

Insane. Crazy. Nuts. Mentally irregular. Clinically certifiable.

Economic insanity because the economy is already in a depression, and even Lord Keynes himself never advocated hiking taxes when the economy is in the waste extractor. Fiscal insanity because even the most illiterate, mouth-breathing mall lizard knows the last such payroll tax hike in 1983 that was supposed to "keep Social Security solvent for seventy-five years" was looted from day one and every day since by greedy Donkresscritters who couldn't raid the so-called "trust fund" and piss it away on vote-buying, power-aggrandizing, and sheer graft schemes fast enough. And political insanity because the American public, as the 2010 mid-terms amply demonstrated for any pol willing to pay attention to the deafeningly expressed will of the people, does not want and will not stand for any more lib raping and pillaging to transfuse still more trillions in funny-money into the already collapsing, unsustainable, runaway welfare state that is bleeding the nation dry and dragging it towards collapse, chaos, crisis, and dictatorship.

Even by the Left's own standards, another huge payroll tax hike would be roaringly "regressive," a huge bitch-slap of the "working and middle class" whose economic interests Dems interminably and pompously insist they "fight for". And yet here they are, redundantly carrying out Albert Einstein's apt definition of insanity as trying the same thing over and over and over in the expectation that sheer repetition will eventually produce a different result.

If you ever needed a more vivid illustration of what a blind-guide false pagan religion liberalism is and has always been, and why Americans are "fed up," you could not do any better - or any worse.

[cross-posted @ Hard Starboard]