Today, June 7, is the 10th anniversary of Tha Bush Mobb tax cuts -- which, as we know, delivered billions of hoardable bucks to the richest Americans, didn't grow the economy, and certainly didn't grow government revenues. Then the banksters collapsed the economy with their shell-game antics, and Republicans took advantage of Mr. Obama's inadequate response to the collapse to get many of their numbers elected to state and federal government, all unctiously intoning that "we're broke" and "everybody has to make sacrifices." And by "everybody," of course, they mean you, and not their rich donors. Thus a multitude of good citizenly organizations help you tell Congress to hike taxes on millionaires and billionaires: CREDO provides a petition, NETWORK provides an email tool, Wealth for the Common Good helps you call your Congressfolk, and True Majority helps you find a demonstration near you. Yes, folks are taking to the streets over this, and why not? We're truly a sick, immoral, and decadent society if we cut services for the sick and destitute while cutting taxes for rich folks who don't do anything but hoard money. I'd hate to think we're a sick, immoral, and decadent society, but sometimes the evidence before me is just too much to bear. So let's remake our world into one we can be proud of. Today's as good a day to start as any.

Speaking of Tha Bush Mobb tax cuts, United for a Fair Economy still provides a "tax cut calculator" which you may use to discover how much Tha Bush Mobb tax cuts saved you. But first, though, put in the number 1,000,000 in for income, just for kicks. See how big that Bush Mobb tax cut is? Almost $39,000 -- enough to pay a lot of folks' salaries for an entire year, though that's not what they usually do with it. Now put in the number 39,000, which is more like your annual income. And how big is that Bush Mobb tax cut? $838 -- nice to have, but you know it won't last much longer than a week. What if your income was a billion dollars? Well, then, your tax cut would be almost $46 million. That's just the tax cut, mind you, on top of all the money you'd already have. And n.b. few people make a million or billion bucks of just plain old income -- someone who made $900,000 in income and $100,000 in capital gains would have had an even larger kickback than the fellow who made a million dollars in regular old income. One reason you may want to find out your tax cut, of course, is that you may want to donate it to the Bureau of the Public Debt, so that you can keep your tax cut out of the economy and demonstrate more fiscal responsibility than grandstanding Republicans. If you don't do that, of course, I get it -- we've all got bills to pay, and not a whole lot of money to pay them with, almost like that was the plan all along.