Late last night, just before I went to bed, I was flipping through the tv channels. I caught the end of something on sky news. I usually try to avoid sky, it being a fascist organisation, but I was tired. On it I saw a review of today’s papers, and one of the commentators was talking crap about how taxing billionaires won’t solve the debt crisis. I instantaneously became quite pissed off: in my book, anyone who claims that increasing taxation for billionaires is an ineffective way of cutting the deficit and instead benefits should be reduced is by definition a selfish idiot. How can people think that the most able in society should be free to live in luxury while the less fortunate, or should I say less greedy,, have the services and benefits they rely on to live reduced? Let’s cut the crap: they don’t believe it is ineffective they are just selfish and don’t like sharing with others. They say the wealthy are wealthy because they earned it, so they should be allowed to keep their wealth, but that is bull. At the end of the day, one becomes wealthy through a mixture of greed, thievery and luck. Rich people do not deserve their wealth any more than anyone else; they are not better than the rest of us in any way, just more selfish, opportunistic and lucky. Taxation redresses this imbalance, seeking to level the playing field. Thus anyone who tries to keep taxes for the most wealthy down is, at the end of the day, defending greed, injustice and selfishness. When I look at the hardships people in the disability community are currently having to go through, with the imminent closure of the Independent Living fund meaning institutionalization for many, it makes my blood boil to see people talking such selfish, arrogant bullshit.