My lunch with Fidel

Reliapundit
The Astute Bloggers
7/12/2010

A very liberal acquaintance of mine went to see a movie praising Fidel the other day. He dug it.

This lib is the kind of person who is still saying Bush “STOLE” the election, but somehow forgives Fidel and Raul for not even having one once in the last 60 years.

But deep down this lib has some decent American values – values which run counter to the leftist dogma he so doggedly follows. He forgives Fidel because his partisan comrades do, not because he has fully thought it out.

So I figured I’d use the chasm between his values and the party line to open his eyes.

Here’s what I said to him:

I said…. what if me and him and his richy-rich buddy went to lunch one day at his favorite restaurant. Me – being poor – ordered pasta for $30; he ordered osso bucco for $50, and his rich pal ordered truffles and foie gras and veal chops for $100. TOTAL: $180.

It was delicious.

The bill comes; we each fork up what we owe on what we each ordered.

A few minutes later the maitre’d returns; he says that because we were their 1,000,000 table served we’re gonna get 50% off our bill and he puts $90 bucks on the table.

So… I asked my lib friend, what’s the FAIREST most JUST way to distribute the $90? Should we split it evenly and each get $30? Or should we each get 50% off of what we each put in?

My lib friend said – without hesitation: we should each get back half of what we each put in: me $15; him $25 and his rich pal $50.

I then told him he just endorsed the Bush tax cuts.

He turned pale and his jaw dropped.

On a deep level, he realized that all the crap he’d heard and repeated FOR YEARS about the Bush Tax Cuts was total bullshit. The Bush Tax Cuts were indeed fair; they were not a tax break for the rich; everyone got back the same percentage of what they put in.

Read the rest at The Astute Bloggers. The Bush tax cuts are due to expire at the end of 2010.

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