Must read of the day

Peter Goldmark , a candidate for Congress in Washington state has a stunning post at Kos. It's long but it's Sunday. You got some time, read the whole thing. Here's one of the best grafs.

Fact Three: It's not the death tax that's the problem. It's all the life taxes. When Republicans help big pharmaceutical companies by making Americans pay more for their medications than any other consumers in the world, it's a life tax that you and I are paying so Republicans can keep getting their big political donations. When the Republican Congress offers corporate welfare to Exxon/Mobil after it made $35 billion in profits for fiscal year 2005, that increases your life tax because we have to pay that corporate welfare at the gas pump. When Republicans permits insurance companies to throw sick people off their insurance plans, or Walmart uses government health plans to pay its employees' health care costs, then your life tax goes up because your government has to pay for all those additional medical expenses. The point is that tax policy can either be used by Democrats to help Washington's working families and farmers or it will be used by Cathy McMorris and the Republicans to help their donors, and make your life even tougher than it already is. Bottom line. The real, inflation adjusted income for households has fallen five years in a row. That's the Republican Revolution and it's coming out of your hide.

He doesn't stop there. He covers everything from the national debt to the fictional free trade agreements and beyond. I almost wish I lived in Washington just so I could vote for him.