Orwell and Goebbels both preached that the road to tyranny starts with manipulating language. Thus the newest proposal by Washington state Democrats to buy votes by promoting victimhood and war against success. Spending $630,000 to hire four liberal bureaucrats in the Department of Social and Health Services to define “inequitable outcomes” and “build accountability.”
Equal opportunity is apparently not enough. And who is being held “accountable,” and for what? Are those who have reaped the rewards of hard work, talent, and unique education to be further demonized, and even indicted in the public mind?
Per the IRS, the affluent already pay the overwhelming majority of income taxes. In Washington they pay, in real dollars, more in sales and property taxes because they buy more stuff, and expensive stuff. But that’s not enough. Democrats want them to pay it all, which is the real definition of “their fair share.” Let alone criticizing highly paid business executives far more than athletes or entertainers.
We’ll see what bogeyman the four bureaucrats come up with. It is ironic that just this last Sunday, “60 Minutes” reported that the Chinese Communist Party is using “wealth inequality” as its excuse to come down hard on businesses and their leaders.
