If they want war...

Northern Sun, the company where I buy most of my tee shirts, sells one that says, “It’s only class warfare when we fight back.”  President Obama is proposing to extend what were supposed to be temporary Bush tax cuts to people who make less than $250,000 a year.  (Note that if you make $300,000, you still get the cut on the first $250,000).

Immediately and predictably the Republicans howled about class warfare.  I thought about that tee shirt.  I also thought about the quote by the leader of the Minutemen on the Lexington Green in 1775.  “If they want war, let it begin here.”