They do?
We need some research..the top corporate CEO earners, vs the top Hollywood movie stars, even when their films have bombed over and over...
Who the heck was he talking to?
And where does he get the idea that ‘most republicans agree’ on this???
Personally I’m concerned with the income disparity between the people and congressmen.
Yes! and an idiot to boot. Speaking of boots. I believe this conversation by Cantor is an open invitation to drop kick this guy from any leadership position in the Republican Party.
Doesn’t the Party do any vetting of it’s people? How about a little indoctrination or at least a right wing play book (called the Constitution in other circles) for these idiots to read.
So long, Eric. Nice knowin’ ya.
it sure means he’s an insider, party-bred idiot...this is not the first time Cantor has stepped on his unit.
I don't click on links to unsafe websites like The Hill so can somebody tell me if Cantor went on to explain what sort of "encouragement" he was talking about?
If it was something like removing some or all of the onerous regulations businesses are required to put up with, he has my support.
If not, I'd prefer he close his own gap.
While I am interested in seeing the poor and middle class be better off economically, the concept of “closing the gap” completely misses the mark.
I’d be thrilled if the “gap” increased widely because the income of the highest earners quadrupled, while the income of the lower and middle class merely doubled.
On the other hand, if the “gap” was narrowed because billionaires lost 75% of their wealth while the lower and middle classes “only” declined 20% it would be a disaster. The “gap” would be greatly narrowed, but everyone would be worse off.
Did he mean Congress and the White House?
LOL...With Obamacare hanging over their heads, the only jobs created will be in China.
Cantor was not saying anything revolutionary. He was just stating the obvious, that if the government gets out of the way and lets people invest and spend, it will be good for everybody, particularly the poor. This is standard Conservative dogma.
It is the opposite of what the OWS folks are saying, which is that the only way to help the poor is to confiscate from the rich and hand the money over to the poor.
Oh sure, we all have our moments of weakness, where we want to BELIEVE. But in the long run, it seems like just plain hating them and treating them as a disease is a sensible disposition. At minimum the mere fact that they seek office should make us all leery of them.
Taxation is not the issue, per se. It is a symptom of the disease, which is too much government. We need to reduce the size of the federal government. A lot of states have been doing so for a while now, out of necessity (they don't have a money printing press).
The national government is the Sugar Daddy of last resort, and the underpinning, through debts and obligations, of our entire Leviathan. The mode of taxation is a tangential issue when viewed in the whole.
You cannot starve the beast. It will take on more debt and more liabilities anyway. You must cut it down to size. The GOP should adopt the recently released Ron Paul plan as its platform. If it's serious, which of course it isn't.
Hey Eric, WTF! I had such hope for this guy.
If we allow people to do so and quit this marxistic share the wealth, social equity (forced by government), etc., and if we promote a return to firm Judaeo-Christian values this nation was built upon, then we will find all classes of people rising as more jobs are created, as initiative and ingenuity are promoted and rewarded and as America does what it does best with the free market based upon fundamental moral and republican principle...create the most prosperous and giving society in the world.
In that environment all people rise. As the overall tide rises, all vessels in that sea are raised. And it happens as a result of individual freedom, initiative, personal responsibility, and the underlying charitable feelings and actions of the people towards those in need.
Problem with the left...and far too many in the "compassionate wing" of the GOP is that their compassion is administered at the point of a government gun. Meaning undue taxation and regulation for the which you are criminalized if you do not toe the line.
Away with all such! Including Cantor if he leans that way.
We simply have to stop fearing these progressives/marxists and call them for what they are...and what history proves them to be...destroyers of freedom and wealth for the individual, and tyrants who garner power and wealth to themselves to administer as they please.
Look at the minorities in this country...particularly at the Black community who have bought into these progressive schemes. After 45+ years and trillions of dollars are their communities any better off? The answer is no. Their families are destroyed, the vast majority of them who buy into this nonsense are wholly dependent on government, and they are being raised to believe that their servitude and economic bondage is owed to them and so they demand more.
It's time to turn that around and we cannot do it by fearing the progr3essives or their message and the complicit MSM.
He is mistaken. Not all Republicans are driven by jealousy, envy and coveting other people’s wealth.
To bad. Now we find that Cantor, our second in command in the House, is (like his boss), totally clueless when it comes to economic issues.
Where are the leaders. Where?
