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Fox News Encourages Rioting in the Streets After Taxes Are Raised on the Wealthy
Fox News is now openly trying to instigate, behind a mask of concern, riots in the streets after taxes were raised on the wealthy.
Here is the video from Media Matters:
Brian Kilmeade introduced Stuart Varney by asking, “We’re becoming more and more like Europe like Senator Graham indicates. Is it possible that we could see riots in the streets?”
Varney then went of his standard America is becoming just like Europe rant. He said in part, “This fiscal cliff deal puts America more on the road to becoming like Europe. In every aspect, we are becoming Europeanized. Our economy, our morality, even our culture is becoming more and more like Europe.”
Fox News is trying to scare their viewers into rioting in the streets, because some rich people are going to have to pay a little bit more in taxes.
According to Fox, average Americans who are getting a permanent tax cut out of this deal, should feel so bad for millionaires and billionaires that they ought to fill the streets to demand that the rich be given more at their own expense.
The Fox News method of motivation is a scare campaign about how the United States is becoming just like Europe. (This kind of talk also offers the added benefit of reminding their viewers that President Obama isn’t “one of us.”) The reason why their won’t be rioting in the streets is that for years most Americans have held the belief that the rich should be paying more in taxes. Polling before the deal showed that nearly half of Republicans supported raising taxes on the wealthy.
For Fox News the idea of some rich people throwing a few extra bucks into the collective kitty is the equivalent of the downfall of the American way of life. What conservative and their media continue to ignore is that taxes have been really high on the wealthy throughout much of the “American way of life.” In fact, taxing the wealthy was a critical part of the American way of life.
Sorry, Fox News. People aren’t going to be rioting in the streets because the free lunch has finally ended for the nation’s wealthy. But what Republicans and conservatives are really afraid of is that Americans will be reminded that good things tend to happen in our economy when the rich pay their fair share, or at least bit more than they were paying before.
Now that the right wing’s no new tax barrier has been broken, what’s to stop people from demanding that wealthy and corporations pay even more?
The Republican no tax mantra is dead, and no amount of Fox News viewers holding signs bought and paid for by millionaires and billionaires can change that. The angry old white cavalry is not coming to the rescue this time, and no one will be demanding that the rich be given their tax cut back.
It’s over. The trickle down has trickled out, and not even Fox News’ toxic blend of propaganda and misinformation can bring it back.
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57 Responses to Fox News Encourages Rioting in the Streets After Taxes Are Raised on the Wealthy
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Churchlady
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Can see it now – rioting by men in Brooks Borthers suits and women in Jimmy Choos.
Kinda boggles the mind.
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:44 pm
I think it would be even more amusing if the guys were wearing the Jimmy Choos. I suspect the riots would be far shorter than originally planned.
Churchlady
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 12:55 pm
It’s the old saw about Fred v Ginger – everything Fred Astaire did, Ginger Rogers did backwards and in high heels.
You are totally correct. Short day, this Elite Revolution, if guys had to wear the heels.
I’d pay money to see it though!
djchefron
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:48 pm
It happened before.Remember the Florida fiasco in 2000.
Reynardine
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Yep. First thing I thought of.
Churchlady
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:43 pm
Not the same – those were hired thugs. FOX is proposing those “harmed” by the tax increase should riot.
A conundrum – would it be safe to hire your underlings to carry the pitchforks and torches for you as they do your briefcase now, or is that inviting them to turn on you and punch holes in your Armani? Set fire to your Rolls? And can your trust your chauffeur to drive you over to Wall Street for your own version of Occupy MY Wall Street Office riots or is he liable to dump you in the Bowery? Where, God forbid, you’d have to walk, call a cab, or take the subway. Horrors!
It’s very hard being the filthy rich. So many issues. So many people who hate you.
Tuck Tucker
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Florida 2000 was a bunch of GOP operatives directly involved with the Bush campaign pretending to be protesters. Big act and completely dishonest. Sorry you were fooled by it.
Melanie
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 8:01 am
Maybe they could hire people to riot for them? Perhaps for minimum wage? Oh, and make sure they hire them for only a part time position, so they don’t have to pay them benefits…or, even better, let’s hire someone under the table, so they can escape all the payroll taxes, and so they don’t have to obey the minimal labor laws that still exist (much to their chagrin…they have tried to get rid of them all recently)
BodiJohn
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 9:25 am
If this economy does not support working class jobs with decent wages and benefits they are correct- there will be civil unrest…just like Europe. But, to say that a 4% increase in taxes on some of the earnings of the ultra wealthy who have done tremendously well over the past dozen years (without much trickle) is the cause is ludicrous. Meanwhile, the rest of us just got a 2% tax increase (payroll tax)! But, these entitlement programs aren’t ‘paid for’…what the…!
Where were these knuckleheads when we charged into two unfunded wars…when we gleefully passed tax cuts that gutted revenue during Republican regimes and guaranteed deficits under the guise of trickle down bullshit (the one thing that does roll down hill)?
This is all about protecting the rich and to hell with everyone else. People were getting very rich when tax rates were twice as high. But, if you can get an even better deal…why not!
neil
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Let Fox news say what they will.They’ve been palinized and should crash and burn any day now.That’s what happens when you have an older demograghic.They die and no one else will buy you bs.I’d love to see Hannity in an unemployment line.
djchefron
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:53 pm
Mr.President you have the power to curb this monstrosity known as fox.Rupert Murdoch has business in front of your FCC.He wants to add the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune to his empire.Say no.First, this media consolidation has to stop.Thank you Bill Clinton.Second, it is time to stand up to this Josef Goebbels wanna be.JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!!
Churchlady
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 12:57 pm
The president has no authority to stop this, but the Federal Communications Commission does. Start lobbying them NOW.
katherine norton malek
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 6:57 pm
Not these two clowns again. Jesus, these two are the worlds worst example of so-called tv journalism. Who the hell takes them seriously? This show often looks like an SNL skit or a Letterman Top Ten Creepiest TV hosts. Shut them the fuck up once & for all. They’re idiots. Oh yeah, we’re all going to take up the cause & hit the picket lines for those poor little rich middle aged white guys like Sheldon Adelson & The Koch Bros. I see it … hahahahahaha!!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:02 pm
I could be wrong, but I think Varney is on drugs.
European healthcare IS paid for. check.
Europeans culture doesnt have gun nuts running around with their wee wees hanging out. Check
Europeans have better beaches. Check
Europe has the same problems as we do, why is Fox trying to show we are superior?
Riots over 4% tax hike? LOL! 93% of new income last year went to the 1%. Is the average tea thug, once taken to school and shown that he is NOT one of the 1%, going to riot for these people? Oh yeah kilmeade. You have a bad case of doocy stupidity disease
robyn ryan
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 1:10 am
Not to mention paid vacation, state subsidized childcare,free higher ed for those who qualify and in France a 2 hour lunch.
Throw me in that briar patch!
Will
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:04 pm
This reaction is a modern day equivalent of ”Let them eat cake” I think she was beheaded, indeed the royal family wrecked the economy and used lies and mistrust and rumor to attempt to control the masses but they revolted and overthrew them, sound familiar?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let...
Reynardine
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Though the attitude and lifestyle of the ruling classes at that time were reprehensible, Marie Antoinette appears merely to have stepped in it. It appears that bread wheat became extremely scarce at one point, and that she suggested that the nobility open their granaries and distribute the soft wheat customarily used for the pastry and pasta enjoyed by the nobility. These latter, in a truly FOX-like ploy, then twisted her words (“let them have brioche flour”) into the truly unforgivable, “Let them eat brioche!” As she was an Austrian, a woman, and living a conspicuously petted life, the fury of the people became directed at her.
deb
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:05 pm
ya know what boner said to Harry Reid I say ditto to fox
dragonpuff
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Wow! I wonder if the rioters will run people over with their Mercedes and Lexus SUVs. Maybe there will only be rioting after they’ve been penciled in for a lunch date or finish their appointment to look at new penthouses. Maybe the rich people will be too busy and instead send “the help” out to riot for them. . . .
The mind boggles.
And—will poor people be rioting in the cold American streets because a bunch of rich people have to pay a little more money that they probably currently spend on dog snack food and dvds?
Nicholas Dell Veneri
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Who gives a crap about rich people
Evil Ferret
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:46 pm
What exactly is wrong with becoming more like Europe?
djchefron
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:01 pm
Free Universities.Check
At least 4 weeks paid vacation.Check
Cradle to Grave Health-care.Check
Strict Gun Control.Check
Higher standard of living.Check
Parties in Ibiza.Check OK that one was for me
Yeah, I can see the hell hole that await us
Lexi Butler
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:49 pm
None of you bothered to listen to the report. Fox did not tell anyone to riot. The comment was that the United States is becoming more like Europe, will be see rioting in the streets. This is what Europe is seeing. People should pay attention to the whole story before getting diarrhea of the mouth.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 9:34 pm
Europe has the same problems as we do. the Banks.
And healthcare IS paid for in Europe.
Its Fox News kinds. Not reality. The Fox method is not to tell people outright to riot, but merely to mention it and see where it goes
john r
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 7:40 am
BINGO… remember Bill Oh Really, and his chant about Tiller the Killer, before the Doctor was assassinated… and the strange silence afterwards
djchefron
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Faux is not telling you the reason people are rioting is because of austerity policies that have been imposed on the people while the rich gets to keep theirs.Furthermore Lexi Luther get your head out of your arse and read before commenting on things you know nothing about.
KatzKids
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 11:25 am
Thank you for bringing up the austerity policies!!
Faux/GOPTP will NEVER point that out, because the very European countries they constantly try to liken to the USA under Democrats. and who are in the greatest financial straights are the ones who have implemented the very same policies the GOPTP want to institute here. Pamper the rich, starve the poor=riots. Double dim wits.
Doocey & Varney, two of the most insignificant know-nothings gnats ever given a microphone.
Sammy
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 3:12 am
Why don’t you spend a few minutes trying to find out and understand what is happening in Europe? They sure are not rioting over the rich having to pay their fare share of taxes and 98% of low and middle income people getting a permanent income tax break.
Try again. EPIC FAIL.
Paul
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Waaaaaaa. As tho the wealthy can’t afford to pay a small part of their fair share of the taxes like the working class do.
Besides, what “Work ethic”? How many of those WEALTHY don’t actually “Work,” but sit back and make a nice living off the income from their investments. In short, their money is making money for them. While the rest of us scrounge for jobs so that we can eat and take care of our families
WBFD125
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are out there throwing rocks as we speak. Oh the horror!
mjh
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Fox News Encourages Rioting in the Streets After Taxes Are Raised on the Wealthy
Good gracious . . .
I seem to recall one former Michigan GOP spokesman just “asking” if it was “time for armed rebellion” when the Affordable Health Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court.
And, didn’t The Combover [Trump] say something about marching on Washington when President Obama won reelection?
Funny how rightwingnuts are ready to riot in the streets over passed and signed legislation or a lawfully conducted election . . . but, let one former president sit on his ass reading fiction to schoolkids while the nation is under a terrorist attack he was warned about a month before, start two illegal preemptive wars in response, wiretap US citizens without warrants, or out a covert CIA agent for political retribution — and nobody bats an eye . . .
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Leon Foonman
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers , and the rest of the 1% were so outraged, they fired the maid(s), and backed the Bentley right in to the pool….
RMuse
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Actually, I was out looking to see Charles and David Koch wandering the streets looking for trouble, then I realized it was a Fox News story. Nevermind
coop10
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:01 pm
“The reason why their won’t be rioting in the streets is that for years most Americans have held the belief that the rich should be paying more in taxes.”
Excellent analysis of the Fox News lunacy, and not to be niggling but “their won’t be” should be “there won’t be.” Thanks!
Viva
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:03 pm
So the wealthiest people in the country have a higher rate of tax to not pay? The government should be going after the huge corporations who pay damn-all federal tax because then they pay no State taxes either – so the States are being starved and the country suffers twice.
Ions ago, Sarah Palin called them ‘Johnny Choos’…
Robert Brzezinski
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:33 pm
I’m pretty sure those making over 400K a year will not riot in the streets, but perhaps they could pay some of us making less than 400k a year to riot on their behalf…
oldladyDem
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 7:40 am
Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch Bros., Walmart, Grover Norquist and ALEC, the industrial prison complex, the industrial military complex, the right wing industrial entertainment complex, the tea party, the NRA, the industrial gun manufacturing complex, the climate change denier’s, the “Separation of Church and State” foes, the enemies of “collective barganing”, the defunding of the American government, thru low/no taxes for the upper 2%, the offshoring of America’s jobs, the attempt to dismantle the New Deal. The war on women’s, the poor, the working class, the disabled, the minorities, the progresive voter, the senior citizens, the students, the LGBT, by abusing Civil Rights, By suppressing the vote, the unpaid for unnecessary wars, all of the above represent the Enemy Within, the enemy of State, the enemy of our Democracy, the enemy of “We, the People”. Take back OUR country, vote YOUR best interest for you and your family in EVERY election. All elections have consequences. Remember, Hitler was voted into office.
Paws
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 7:58 am
Is Fox News turning into a televised version of The Onion? I swear they are acting more like comedians (bad ones at that) than “reporters.” (And yes, I use the term reporters very loosely when speaking of Fox.)
shel3364
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 9:34 am
They must be over estimating the size of wealthy people that watch their little show.
But if, by some miracle, they get people who AREN’T wealthy to riot on behalf of the wealthy, we’ll go down in history as the stupidest generation to walk the planet.
KatzKids
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 11:31 am
I think we’re already there because of the people who keep backing these escapees from the asylums Reagan dismantled. The World shakes it’s collectives heads at us, but are greatly relieved we re-elected President Obama. As am I and countless millions of others.
greg
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 11:40 am
Rather amusimg, considering the average age of their viewers is mid 60′a.
Not exactly the age demographic for rioters.
omomma
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 12:57 pm
Really? Banksters on the picket line? I don’t think so.
Bob
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Let me get this straight. All of you that have commented here are not capable of making it on your own like the filthy evil rich, right? It’s not because you are stupid, lazy, or have no ambition, right? It’s because the evil rich are stealing your money, right? Help me out, I’m trying to follow your logic.
So these evil rich people should be giving you their money, right? And if they give you their money, you’ll be better off, albeit, still stupid and lazy.
So what happens if you get rich off their money. Then it’s okay? As long as you remain stupid and lazy, and don’t sell out by becoming hard working and ambitious, it’s all good, right?
I think I’m getting it. I’ll bet you all make your parents proud.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 1:45 pm
LOL!
You already proved your stupidity with the Obama hasnt created any jobs stuff. Dont throw stones
Tell me bob, does dummies+4, tweedledede@gmail.com mean anything to you?
djchefron
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 4:47 pm
OOPS I posted this in the wrong thread.Trying to keep up with the stupid makes myself crazy
{Now to you sideshow bob.You state the President has never had his budget passed.Wrong dipshit.Here is the first problem with your statement. The president doesn’t “pass” a budget. That’s Congress’ job.The President can offer a wishlist but it is congress job to come up with a budget,pass a budget and even then the President doesnt sign it.
You say the house passed a budget.I guess if you called that wet dream to ayn rand a budget I guess you are right.But guess what, it was so soaked in paul ryans mastubating bodily fluids to atlas shrugged that the senate voted not no but hell nawwww.
You keep calling the President Comrade.Which is funny seeing that when that great free marketer george bush was in office the dow was at6000 under “Comrade Obama”its over 13000.Bush vs.Obama on unemployment[At the same point in his administration, President George W. Bush’s record wasn’t as positive. Through 44 months, the private sector had lost more than 1 percent of its jobs (under Obama, it has gained 0.46 percent), and the only reason Bush could claim positive overall growth was because the public sector had grown by almost 4 percent.}
thinkprogress.org/economy...
Move over the commisars of Soviet Russia we got this.
Back to the budget for one last question.How can the democrats pass a budget when rpublicans controll the house?I’ll await your answer
}
Jeff
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 12:32 am
interesting comment. but standard right wing policy. blame the working poor for being a bunch of freeloaders. make billions off our work while paying us less than sus=bsistance wages. then call us stoopid and lazy.
how about this for lazy: i, and there are others like me out there, spent the past year working over 60 hours a week. every week. i am beat down, exhausted, and have seen less and less from the longer and longer hours i end up working. i am told that i need to spend money i don’t have for an education that will be obsolete by the time i graduate. all the while working full time plus overtime to make ends meet.
i have news for fox and the gop. if there is going to be rioting in the streets, it will be because we the people can’t catch a living wage, not because some poor soul who made more in bonuses last year than i will in a lifetime got his tax break cancelled.
we the working class are not lazy. we are not stoopid. in fact, we are the very reason this country has been so prosperous for so long. the stupid ones are those who believe they can take all this away from us without endangering the well being of this country.
mrwonder
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 2:11 am
Why do you assume paying taxes equals giving money to lazy people?? Do you even know where taxes go? A tiny tiny percentage of tax dollars go to people that dont work. Very very small. You show your ignorance and prove you simply regurgitate the hatefilled talking points of Fox and AM radio. If you want to post intelligently then learn a little something about what your talking about. Your political idols have made a fool of you again
Bill The Yaesuman
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Becoming more like Europe? Where education is ahead of us. Where they have trains that go 200 mph and they are making money. That Europe I hope we can become more like them!!!! You mean where ther are less guns and less murders. Where there is universal health care.
kimbutgar
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 11:52 am
Yeah I would love for this country to be like Europe valuing education, paid maternity leaves, public health care, great transportation system. Bring it on.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 11:57 am
That scares a republican to death
djchefron
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Try to follow along sideshow.Then maybe you can understand why people are upset
The four business gangs that run the US
Read more: www.smh.com.au/business/t...
Pogonip
Jan. 3rd, 2013 at 9:28 pm
There’s so much talk about the “work ethic” and the wealthy. I did not realize that inheriting a fortune from one’s family constituted a “work ethic.” Live and learn, eh?
Jeff
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 12:34 am
evidently it’s ethical not to have to work. it’s only lazy if you don’t have money.
kimbutgar
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 11:54 am
The republican work ethic is work until you drop dead.
Seth
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 1:44 am
“I say, I say, Dahling… Be a dear and pass me my top hat and overcoat? If they think that Reginald Herbert Moneypenny is going to take this lying down, well… To the streets, gentlemen!” “Dahling? Have them bring the coach around?”
kimbutgar
Jan. 4th, 2013 at 11:50 am
Yeah I’m really going to the streets to protest rich people not getting their tax cuts. SURRRRE Fox. I bet all those angry white guys who get social security and medicare are more than willing to give up their monthly checks so the rich can get tax breaks.
Robert
Jan. 8th, 2013 at 5:04 am
Work ethic of the rich “Work or starve poor people”. The work ethic of the rich is getting other people to do the actual work and then taking the credit and of course the profits for it.