FredHayek wrote: And the American people rejected Pelosi and restored the House to the GOP in both 2010 and 2012. They liked their Bush tax cuts which mainly helped lower income citizens.
Right....the Bush tax cuts were the biggest gift the wealthy had received in quite some time.....the middle class got chump change.
Bush took millions of lower and middle class voters off the tax rolls but you go ahead and believe what you want to.
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FredHayek wrote: And the American people rejected Pelosi and restored the House to the GOP in both 2010 and 2012. They liked their Bush tax cuts which mainly helped lower income citizens.
Right....the Bush tax cuts were the biggest gift the wealthy had received in quite some time.....the middle class got chump change.
Bush took millions of lower and middle class voters off the tax rolls but you go ahead and believe what you want to.
It's not "what I believe" it's reality. The lower classes have never really been on the tax rolls in any meaningful way....but the Bush tax cuts were quite the gift to the top 2%. And the increasing wealth disparity between the haves and the have nots is testament to that.
FredHayek wrote: And the American people rejected Pelosi and restored the House to the GOP in both 2010 and 2012. They liked their Bush tax cuts which mainly helped lower income citizens.
Right....the Bush tax cuts were the biggest gift the wealthy had received in quite some time.....the middle class got chump change.
Bush took millions of lower and middle class voters off the tax rolls but you go ahead and believe what you want to.
It's not "what I believe" it's reality. The lower classes have never really been on the tax rolls in any meaningful way....but the Bush tax cuts were quite the gift to the top 2%. And the increasing wealth disparity between the haves and the have nots is testament to that.
Hey Socialist Party archer you got a quote for that? You keep putting out so much BS. Show me where the middle class didn't benefit.
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“When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex. Only whit man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.” Indian Chief Two Eagles
Could the Bush tax cuts have lowered taxes for everyone...and while the lower and middle classes were so happy their taxes went down, they did not notice that the upper class's taxes went down even more, resulting in a shift of increased TAX BURDEN RELATIVE TO THE OTHER CLASSES even while everyone's taxes went down. If we then kept those tax burdens relative to other classes moving forward and paid off all debt and paid for all services, then in general, the taxes were lowered for the wealthy and raised for the lower classes in the long run.
I am not saying this happened, but I believe this statement can make what everyone is proposing for the last few posts true.
These are the kinds of messes and discussions you get to have when you give 1/4 to 1/2 of the money to the government every last time that it changes hands and you have a complicated tax system.
Weren't those turn of the century tax changes just adjustments to the federal income tax, that is not where most of our personal tax burden comes from, especially if you are poor. If you are very poor, your biggest taxes are sales tax and property tax via your landlord and those are local, likely comparable is your SS/MC tax (though this is larger if you include employer matching - it's a match again - yeah from the employer perspective).
I personally find the phrase "Bush tax cuts" insulting (not insulting enough for 285bound action), just old fashioned insulting. Those are our tax cuts, we made them through our representative govt and Bush just signed them into law, he must have felt they were legal and the will of the people. Let's stop giving the president so much power, that was our power.
That is funny, I have not really made an opinion on this coin thing yet, as it seems all govt finances are about just getting to tomorrow, not even next week, but I thought the cartoon was making fun of the left. I guess how it really can make fun of anyone who is taking a blind political side and thinking their solution is righteous unless it includes just taxing everyone like WWII until we pay and fund our obligations because we have overspent for 75+ years.
It *was* making fun of the left but inadvertently showed how easily the right is distracted. It's something new every few days (like the trillion dollar coin). It reminds me of the Republican front runner during the primaries. the front runner changed almost every week and while the righties were distracted by the outrage of the day leading up the the election -- mostly focusing on women's reproductive issues -- the left had a single purpose: to get out the vote. The election left the right asking, "What happened?"
