Something the Dog Said wrote: From that radical liberal, Ronald Reagan in a June 6, 1985 speech at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, allowing a millionaire to pay lower taxes that a bus driver were “crazy,” because they allowed the “truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share”:
" Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less?"
Mitt Romney paid a much higher total in taxes than any bus driver. Plus also donated much more to charity than any bus driver. But lets penalize the job creators.
Yeah, those "job creators" have done a bang up job haven't they. and Reagan was talking about tax rates. and the charity that the human Etch a Sketch donated to was the Mormon church which he was required to do so.
The Mittster has destroyed more jobs than he created.
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Something the Dog Said wrote: From that radical liberal, Ronald Reagan in a June 6, 1985 speech at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, allowing a millionaire to pay lower taxes that a bus driver were “crazy,” because they allowed the “truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share”:
" Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less?"
Mitt Romney paid a much higher total in taxes than any bus driver. Plus also donated much more to charity than any bus driver. But lets penalize the job creators.
Yeah, those "job creators" have done a bang up job haven't they. and Reagan was talking about tax rates. and the charity that the human Etch a Sketch donated to was the Mormon church which he was required to do so.
The Mittster has destroyed more jobs than he created.
Lying like a Dog again? You should really take some time to read the speech instead of regurgitating the contents of the echo chamber.
Reagan wasn't talking about tax rates, he was talking about holes in the tax code. He wanted lower tax rates for everyone, but also wanted everyone to be paying something in taxes. Nearly half pay no income taxes at all right now and that is definitely not what Reagan was advocating that day in June of 1985.
We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that's crazy. It's time we stopped it.
And the way I see it, if our current tax structure were a TV show, it would either be "Foul-ups, Bleeps, and Blunders," or "Gimme a Break." If it were a record album, it would be "Gimme Shelter." If it were a movie, it would be "Revenge of the Nerds" or maybe "Take the Money and Run." And if the IRS, Internal Revenue Service, ever wants a theme song, maybe they'll get Sting to do, "Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you."
What we're trying to move against is institutionalized unfairness. We want to see that everyone pays their fair share, and no one gets a free ride. Our reasons? It's good for society when we all know that no one is manipulating the system to their advantage because they're rich and powerful. But it's also good for society when everyone pays something, that everyone makes a contribution.
After all, we're all citizens, equal in the eyes of the law, and equal in the eyes of God. You're given a lot of benefits when you're born in the U.S.A, but you're given a responsibility, too, a responsibility to do your part and become a contributing member of the American family and an equal partner in America, Incorporated. When you pay your taxes, you buy your shares. And every year you get to vote on who should be on the board of directors.
And what Republican ever used the term "trickle down?"
Call it whatever you want-Its what you argue for in every post you make on economic policy
You don't know that? You don't even know what you argue for? You just repeat what your told not knowing what it means?
You are the typical republican, arent ya?
You see the level of lies that come from the left (meaning YOU)? No conservative ever used that term nor was it suggested. The original term was used by a Democrat, and it's been a meme from the left since then. Sort of like Big Lie technique of Hitler. Learn your history.
In 1896, Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan made reference to trickle-down theory in his famous "Cross of Gold" speech:
"There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it."
After leaving the Presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, alleged, "Republicans [...] simply don't know how to manage the economy. They're so busy operating the trickle-down theory, giving the richest corporations the biggest break, that the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket."
