Responding to the Melissa Harris Perry Show
While channel surfing I came across the Melissa Harris Perry Show where the topic of Taxes were being discussed. Her guests were JoAnn Reid of the Grio, Rick Newman of US News and World Reports and Randa Fahmy Hudome, Former Energy Secretary for the Bush Administration. There were quite a few good points made but there were also some of which I took issue with. Ms. Hudome mentioned that the true job creators were the millionaires and billionaire which is why their taxes should not be raised. She said that all of them want to do the right thing. She further stated that there appears to be no trust in the economy as if trust were a necessary ingredient to boost consumer confidence. I agree with the need for trust but her premisie misses the target. If millionaires and billionaires wish to do the right thing then the right thing would have been paying those corporate taxes and not hiding money overseas. The right thing would be creat...