The Religion Of The Elite In New York: Worship Banks, Sacrifice Humans?
[Alternet ed note: Cuomo's decision to let the milionaire's tax in NY repeal was contested last night by Occupy Wall St. protesters. See story here].
This takes some real chutzpah:
Cuomo said his opposition was a principled one, similar to his father Mario’s unwillingness to go along with the death penalty, a policy deeply rooted in the elder Cuomo’s Catholic faith.
“My father was governor of this state. He was against the death penalty. Everyone in the state wanted the death penalty — everyone. It was near 80 percent. And he was the governor of the state and he said he wasn’t going to sign it. Every year — go back and talk to some of the people who know the history — every year we had to scramble and make sure there wasn’t an override of the veto.
(snip)
“The point is, we don’t elect — the governor isn’t a big poll taking machine. And that’s what we do, we take a poll and do whatever the poll says and you wouldn’t need me … so the fact that everyone wants it, that doesn’t mean all that much. I respect the people, their opinion matters, but I’m not going to go back and forth with the political winds.”
A tax on those making $250,000 and more will expire at the end of this year. Cuomo disputed the idea that this is essentially a tax break for those earners.
Just in case anyone disputes the idea that protecting the wealthy is a religious commitment of certain politicians, think again. This man just compared a principled opposition to the death penalty to opposing taxes for the wealthiest among us.
Is Cuomo a lapsed Catholic who’s taken up Randian philosophy? She thought taxing the rich was immoral too.
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