Our Billionaires Are More Virtuous Than Your Billionaires!
22nd August 2012
John Hinderaker has some fun bashing biased reporting.
Mayer, no believer in Occam’s Razor, hypothesizes that the problem is that rich Republican donors are greedy, while rich Democratic donors are altruistic:
Creating a sense of intimacy with the President is especially important with Democratic donors, a frustrated Obama fund-raiser argues: “Unlike Republicans, they have no business interest being furthered by the donation—they just like to be involved. So it makes them more needy. It’s like, ‘If you’re not going to deregulate my industry, or lower my taxes, can’t I at least get a picture?’”
This is profoundly stupid. Given the endless overreach of the federal government, every substantial business is affected by federal laws and regulations. Democratic businessmen have “business interests” just like Republican businessmen–leave my industry alone, or regulate my competitors, or don’t single out my industry for a destructive tax, or don’t adopt a stupid regulation. Or pay my business money: when the federal government spends $3 1/2 trillion a year, it is supporting not just a lot of senior citizens, but a lot of businesses, too.
August 22nd, 2012 at 10:08
Democratic billionaire contributors are a bunch of whining primadonnas.
Just because you give money to the campaign doesn’t automatically qualify you as BFF with the POTUS.