Finally, a non-stupid case against the tax cut

The tax cut returns more money to people with higher incomes. Big surprise, since they pay the bulk of the taxes. As Robert Barro pointed out in Business Week, the top 5% of adjusted gross income accounts for 56% of income taxes, the bottom 50% for only 4%. It is numerically hard to give big tax cuts to the bottom half (so long as they stay tax cuts, and not simply disguised welfare payments), and so it seems to me much of the “give away to rich” talk was mostly class warfare rhetoric.

But now I learn more about the village of Oak Park, a rich (average adjusted gross income is over $70,000, putting it in the 93rd percentile), trendy left suburb of Chicago. (Full disclosure: my mother and my four brothers live there.) You know it; the one that ostentatiously banned handguns. All six of them, owned by the only people there who did not vote for Ralph Nader. You may think I am sounding scornful, but you do not know the depths of depravity in this suburb. The Chicago Tribune (registration required) reports:

Susan Bailey has until October to make a tough choice: Dump one of her three dogs or move out of Oak Park.
When Bailey brought Izzy home six months ago, she thought the miniature dachshund would help her two children cope with the approaching deaths of the family’s two older dogs.
She didn’t expect an angry neighbor, the dog eviction deadline set Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, and a fine up to $750 a week if she fails to comply.
Oak Park said Bailey is in violation of its two-dog limit, and one dog must go.
The utter depravity of these rich leftists is even worse:
Under the Oak Park ordinance, residents can have no more than two dogs or four indoor cats in a single-family home, and no more than one dog or two cats in an apartment or condominium.
Only two dogs, but four, four, of the evil spawn of Satan. Typically discriminatory behavior. Bring on the class warfare. Double these people’s taxes; triple them. These people need to be punished.