WaPo Style Section Devotes 31 Paragraphs to Promoting Tax-Me-More ‘Patriotic Millionaires’
D.C.-area millionaires who want their taxes raised are “lonely at the top,” a small minority among the nation's millionaires who are worried about economic collapse and literal class warfare if their taxes aren't hiked, insists Washington Post staff writer David Fahrenthold. While you'd expect such a story in the A-section, perhaps among the business pages, Fahrenthold's 31-paragraph feature on the District's “Patriotic Millionaires” made the front page of today's Style section. Limousine liberal guilt about wealth creation is apparently stylish to the Post. “It's the millionaire who's worried,” about financial collapse and proletarian uprising, Fahrenthold explains, citing area millionaires who believe that somehow raising their taxes will stave off an economic collapse and/or massive social unrest that turns violent: The Patriotic Millionaire is standing in his $2.5
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