As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, April 3, 2021

How Biden’s tax pledge undercuts his own initiatives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/01/how-bidens-tax-pledge-undercuts-his-own-initiatives/

Another insightful column from Catherine Rampell. The two key takeaways:

 

“Americans may increasingly appreciate the shared benefits of a robust welfare state — but they don’t see funding those programs as a shared responsibility.”

 

“High-income individuals and big companies have also done very well in recent decades relative to the rest of the country — yet have enjoyed extremely generous tax breaks. They should pay more. But even if these taxpayers pony up, there aren’t enough ultrarich people and megacorporations out there to fund the massive new economic investments and social services Democrats say they want, and claim they plan to actually pay for.”

 

It’s true that there are many nice, important things in Biden’s “American Jobs Plan”. As a whole, however, it reminds me of a song by the unjustly-obscure 1980s Scottish new wave band Aztec Camera – “All I Need Is Everything.”

 

It also brought to mind that famous line by Wimpy in the old Popeye comic strips: “I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

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