Cutting taxes leads to more money for government. Conservatives say they oppose popular programs on ideological grounds. Although they cannot admit that they happily run up huge budget defecits. (do some research, this is easily provable) So they perpetuate this lie.
Taxes on the rich keep wealth producers from creating jobs. First just look at the Bush tenure to see how many jobs tax cuts produce. NONE! Obviously what is noteworthy here is how badly this defies common sense. Only half of American families pay taxes. Rush Limbaugh said” That the bottom 50% are paying a tiny bit of the taxes. Rember this the next time you hear about tax cuts for the rich. Understand that the so called rich ate about the only ones paying taxes.” Basically it has proven that people between 20,000 & $500,000 pay approxamately 40% plus or minus 5%.
Americans are taxed to death. In 2008 we ranked 26th out of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Developement. In terms of overall tax burden we came in 9% below the average of the group of wealthy nations. Mitch Mcconnell said ” The reason we are having this economic trough is what the government is doing to the private sector. You know President Obama keeps talking about public sector, unemployment in the public sector is 4.2%. We need to get the private sector going” There is no such thing as private or public sector percentages, they do not get measured that way. If government hired at the same rate as Reagan or Bush unemployment would be at 7%. Cuts in government jobs have cost us 1.7 million jobs.
Mitch Mcconnell said the Obama administration had free reign, they spent & borrowed at will in Obamas first 2 years. In President Obamas first 2 year Republicans abused the filibuster using 112 times or 18% of the time in year one & 91 times in second year. You need 2/3s majority equalling 60 votes to break a filibuster. The GOP claim that austerity works. Just look at Europe, countries that applied austerity are economically disintegrating.
We need less government spending. Unfortunately spending cuts are not the solution to the Federal defecit. At least not in the short term, government spending falls as percentage of GDP when the economy grows. A balanced aporoach is the only sane way to attack National debt. Social Security is on crisis, yes it does need adjustments. But if we make the adjustments & the rich , corporations, Republicans stop hijacking our National income we would be much better off. What do the top 1% need social security for, it is an entitlement for poor peopl, in the Republican partys opinion. So why do the super wealthy need it?
I hope this helps clarify the Republican partys position. It is to rape average tax payers whole raping our economy. They do not want to create jobs, they want to keep wealth moving upward increasing the income gap. This may have been the Republicans partys motive for many years, it has certainly come to fruition. Our Democrat party has up til now let the GOP walk all over them, it needs to stop now. We the people demand it!
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