Thanks to The Daily Show et
al., I get to laugh at O'really.

This tumescent , (apt description Dr. Reich), anal sphincter has no clue that the moon controls the ebb and flow of tides. How can any thinking person listen to his tripe?

We are caught between a Neo-Fascist American movement and a mass-communication challenged Democratic establishment that can't sell the greatest things our political system can offer: justice, sustainable development, long-term investment in a nation that is great precisely because of all the great long-term investment we benefit from.

Calling Reich a communist is nothing more than right-wing pamphleteering. Turning dialogue into absolutist confrontation and destroying everything that democracy is about. But we know who these guys are! How they have now for decades repeated lies that even progressives now repeat. What we need is counter propaganda; effective, direct, simple mass-communication that delivers contemporary equivalents of "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". Ten years ago we could blame "them", today we can only blame our own movements lack of communicational projection. In Politics perception is everything, and perception is what we progressives are terrible at! There is a saying in South America that I learned when I lived there that says it all: "Guerra avisada no mata soldado" A war announced in advance kills no soldier. Bill Clinton was justified to complain about the then "new" right-wing conspiracy, we are not.

Study; www.marxists.org
Hellen Keller was a Socialist and derided for it. Did you learn about that in school?
Why DEFEND yourself unless like them you are laboring under misconceptions about Marx or Communism? You have handed them the power or you are afraid of them.
Here! Here! Teabaggedtodeath ; 'everyone who reads it becomes an instant Marxist.'
Stand up Reich come out of the closet and stop cowing or stop trying to back bad policy look reasonable.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

You said years sho on tv --" as we all know corporations exist for the benefit of their employees".

I have used that for years as the best one sentence description of The Communist credo ever spoken.

Only a Communist would say such an absurd statement and make it sound as accepted universally by rational people.

This is the twist speak used by all Communists since Marx wrote down his fantasy ecOnomic theories.

You are livid that your cover has been seen through finally. This makes two of us out here that don't believe corporations exist for their employees- they are created by their shareholders with the goal of making a profit by supplying products and services that people freely trade their cash for to acquire.

At least in Europe Communists proudly proclaim their beliefs - here in America you hide under Progressive- and try to make Commumist and even socialist a phrase used by mentally deranged right wingers-- villify the words so you can't be exposed. Eventually you will add the word "I" to the list of banned words.

Also " spreading the wealth around" was fairly good as well- short concise definition of Communism -- who was that Communist that uttered those words?

Be a man -stand up and proudly proclaim yourself a card carrying Communist already-- okay- stand on a box if you have to already- but try having some integrity and stop calling yourself a capitalist already.

As far as I know, if someone is a communist, it is no secret to anyone who knows what a communist is, that that person has at least an appreciation of Karl Marx's teachings.

Even so, Reich decides to entertain O’Reilly's patently nonsensical claim. He does so because that brand of excremental talk is destroying "the national dialogue." I was surprised to learn that there was such a thing as a national dialogue.

I seriously doubt that once our elite democracy for lndowners gave way to full voting that discussion was much more than appeal to hysteria. Today, however, there is so few ways to make money, it has become an excellent and easy way to accumulate lots of income for those who aren't already rich. How much intelligent coverage was there of Jackson ignoring of the Supreme Court to go ahead and move the Cherokees to Oklahoma I wonder? There has never been a war that has been free of hysterical propaganda including the revolutionary war.
It indicates that the votes don't make too much difference except to the patronage system that is getting chosen.
The multi-national corporations for which we are fighting wars are a world order without borders and they do not have any country allegiance at all. Neither do their major stockholders for the corporate purposes of earning them top investment dollars. That would also includes giant institutional investors of all kinds no matter what country. Given all the oil money invested we know where lots of the investors currently reside.Actually nationality and borders may disappear completely and everything will be provided by corporations on a worldwide network basis.

We don't need to go back to Eisenhower's tax rates of 91% as a top marginal rate. We need to think about 1938 Tax Code of 33 tax brackets, in order to cover all classes of income. These 33 tax brackets ranged from 4% for all income up to $64,000.(adjusted for inflation), all the way up to a top marginal rate of 79% for income over $79,Million. Robert Reich is a fair and honest man, who isn't out for himself. He puts country first. Most people on TV earn over $600,000/yr, and some way over $1,000,000./yr, so most of them don't want to bring up the subject of raising taxes on the rich and super rich. Bill O'Reilly is one such rich man, and resorts to name calling to get his followers to follow his twisted logic. Most of his followers don't know the definition of Communism, or who Karl Marx was. If Bill said he was a bad guy, that's good enough for them. With all the things wrong with this country, very few people understand that we could solve 98% of the country's problems simply by rewriting the Tax Code to 20 or 30 Tax Brackets, and a top marginal rate of 55% or 60%. I would love our 99% people to get behind a major movement of "20 Brackets to $20,Million".

Income Tax Reform.

Will Rogers said: “The difference between Death and Taxes is Death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

Thomas Paine urged that everything "beyond what a man's own hands produce" was a gift that came to him simply by living in society, and hence, "he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."

First I will say that any Income Tax Reform that continue to allow for Exceptions, Exemptions and Deduction will never be Fair and Equal to all. To many loopholes will exist through which the 1.0% of the Rich and Powerful Individuals and Corporations, Companies, Institutions and Organizations squeeze through and pay NO TAXES. Even if we made the INCOME TAX RATE on every individual who made over one million dollars be 99%, with the use of the Exceptions, Exemptions and Deductions they could not pay any taxes.

The Entire Income Tax Code MUST be Repealed and Replaced. By the elimination of ALL the EXCEPTIONS, EXEMPTIONS, and DEDUCTIONS and by making every source of Income [Wages, Bonuses, Benefits, Interest Earnings, Capital Gains, and any other earnings or Gains] be subject to the same Tax Code and Rate no matter How it was earned, Where it was earned, or What it was earned from.

If Congress wants to provide an incentive to Corporations, Companies, Institutions or Organizations, Congress can do so by creating a Tax Credit with specified amounts and time limits.

HERE is an Income Tax Code that is based upon Fairness and Equality, and the ability to pay, Just like everything else in life. PLEASE note that the implementation of this Tax Code would significantly reduce the size of the IRS, reduce the amount of time to prepare your Taxes, and sorry to say it, but it gets rid of the need for Tax Preparation Companies.

The official numbers don’t tell the full story. The situation of the poor is actually considerably worse than the Government reports. The official poverty line is calculated as simply three times the minimal food budget first introduced in 1959, and then adjusted for inflation in food costs. In other words, the American poverty threshold takes no account of the cost of housing or fuel or transportation or health-care costs, all of which are rising more rapidly than the cost of basic foods. So the poverty measure grossly understates the real cost of subsistence.

My proposed Poverty Income Levels and the Taxes:
[1.0] Income earned from $.01 to $13,537.00 for a family of one would pay Zero Tax Rate.
[2.0] Income earned from $.01 to $23,689.00 for a family of two would be Zero Tax Rate.
[3.0] Income earned from $.01 to $30,478.00 for a family of three would be Zero Tax Rate.
[4.0] Income earned from $.01 to $37,267.00 for a family of four would be Zero Tax Rate.
[5.0] Income earned from $.01 to $44,056.00 for a family of five would be Zero Tax Rate.
[6.0] Income earned from $.01 to $50,845.00 for a family of six would be Zero Tax Rate.
[7.0] Income earned from $.01 to $57,634.00 for a family of seven would be Zero Tax Rate.
[8.0] Income earned from $.01 to $64,423.00 for a family of eight would be Zero Tax rate.

For those who are not in the Poverty Income Level the Tax Rates would be as follows:

[9.0] Income earned from $13,537.00 to $100,000.00 would pay a 15.0% Tax Rate. PLUS.

[10.0] Income earned from $100,000.01 to $500,000.00 would pay 17.5% Tax Rate. PLUS.

[11.0] Income earned from $500,000.01 to $1,000,000.00 would pay 20.0%Tax Rate. PLUS.

[12.0] Income earned from $1,000,000.01 to $50,000,000.00 would pay 25.0% Tax Rate. PLUS.

[13.0] Income earned from $50,000,000.01 to $1,000,000,000.00 would pay 30.0% Tax Rate. PLUS.

[14.0] Income earned from $1,000,000,000.01 and up would pay 35.0% Tax Rate.

I would also create a Financial Transaction Fee of $ .50 on each and every Financial Transaction, to generate from $2 to $3 Trillion in Revenue to “Reduce the Deficit and to Invest in our future, our Infrastructure and our middle class.”

U.S. Corporate Income Taxes that were actually paid (the effective rate) fell to a 40 year low of 12.1 percent in fiscal year 2011, despite corporate profits rebounding to their Pre-Great Recession heights. The United States of America, both taxes its Corporations less and raises less in revenue from corporate taxes than its foreign competitors.

Therefore; under my Corporate Tax Rate Corporations would pay 20.0% Income Tax Rate with NO Exceptions, No Exemptions and the NO Deductions. Or they can pay the same Tax Rates as an Individual, seeing as the Supreme Court has ruled they have the same Right to Freedom of Speech, therefore they should have the same Right to pay the same Income Tax Rates. Corporations should not make Business decisions based upon the Income Tax Loopholes, they should be based on what is the best thing for the Corporation, Employees and the Investors. The top 500 Corporations, Companies, Institutions and Organizations within the Fortune 500, Pay No Taxes today. This Income Tax Plan would ensure that all Corporations, Companies, Institutions or for Profit Organizations that earned a Profit would PAY TAXES.

I am sending this to Bill O'Reilly

I echo teabagged2death in saying that few people at Fox have read Marx. They should. They should also re-visit history and the dangers of monopolistic capitalism taking over every and any form of democracy. It's called fascism I believe.

Here's the problem. By saying stubstantive things on The Daily Show, which surrounds substantive things with laughter, Reich gets a rise out of O'Reilly because nobody cares what Reich says on MSNBC or on the Sunday talking heads talkshows, which he is increasingly not invited to and which nobody watches anyway. So, his comments are trivialized and become just part of the fun of watching The Daily Show. The result? A wised-up, cynical audience that thinks they know things, but are too busy laughing to do anything about them. They laugh at the idiots. And, as any psychologist will tell you, laughter is the enemy of anger. So, sadly, we laugh so hard that we do not send a letter to the editor, we do not write (email) our rep in Washington, we don't join Occupy. I enjoy the Daily Show, but to say that Jon Stewart is today's Walter Cronkite is sad. We are indeed being Amused to Death. I like The Daily Show, but I know it is dangerous for democracy

Bill Oh, get Really! should be sent to a mental asylum. He is bullying anyone who advocate socio-economic-political justice, anyone whose thought process is science based instead of dogmas of the right (advocating magical solutions to scientific problems). Take him out of his talk show to a logical forum where issues would be discuss in a logical, dignified manner, he would melt away like ice cube (made of urine) in a hot day. Oh, Really knows Professor Reich is right. That is why Mr. ice cube made of urine is so frothy at the mouth.

Robert Reich, a pinko commie and worshipper of Karl Marx? You must be kidding ! Bob Reich is just a good ole Jewish intellectual mench with a kind, decent heart for the little people. He is one Democrat that I can relate to.... unlike that "Great Black Hope" who has turned out to be all jive full of hot air, with no substance. Keep up the good fight, Bob Reich. You are the conscience of America, which is in dire shortage at this juncture of its history, of good, honest intellectuals and academics who are not corrupted nor obsessed with "getting rich." For the jobless, disillusioned, debt-crushed college kids and graduates.... I feel your pain and anger. I will join you in the barricades when the confrontation erupts.

Nice job Mr. Reich, it would seem you have them running scared about something or another...Oh wait, silly me, it's the facts that scare them.. Well, nice job anyway, You sometimes have to go some to get on there hit list..