Jon Stewart Hits Conservatives and Wealthy for Focusing on Cuts for Teachers
Jon Stewart's latest anti-conservative screed included a satirical defense of top income earners and a tongue-in-cheek plea for teachers to pay their fair share, in the wake of the Wisconsin protests. On Monday's “Daily Show,” the Comedy Central host offered a shallow assessment of the entire Wisconsin situation with not a single critical look at the state's public sector unions. Stewart's simplistic take on events is that teachers are being unduly bullied by Republicans and the wealthy to help solve the budget crisis in this country. What could help, he opined, would be boosting taxes on the “top two percent” of income earners. “Hey you know, one thing we could do – not extend the Bush tax cuts to the top two percent of the country. That would earn us $700 billion over the next ten years,” Stewart remarked to applause. “Oh, oh, and maybe also we could close some corporate tax loopholes.”
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on March 1, 2011. Filed under