The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.
Related — the Dems are already starting:
50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag
“Programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps are keeping millions of families afloat. Republicans have sought to cut both programs, an illustration of the intense disagreement between the two political parties over the best solutions for bringing down the poverty rate as quickly as possible, or eliminating it. “
It’s all the fault of the Republicans that the “War on Poverty” didn’t work, we just have to take away all the money from “the evil rich” and turn the US into a communist paradise, like Cuba.
(If anyone can’t see this is sarcasm, they really have a comprehension problem... of course the Dems would read this as absolute truth...)
The RATS think that since this worked in getting that communist woman elected in Seattle WA, and also De Blasio in New York city, this will work all across the country.
The RATS are the ones that have destroyed the working poor and middle class jobs. Now they are saying that they are the ones to bring those jobs back? They are fools, all of them, FOOLS!
When did the Minimum wage become the new
income standard for the Middle class?
The Middle Class does not live on Minimum wage unless the Dems are now bringing
them to their knees in line with Poverty so that those new to the work force
can think they're doing good in name only. I'm confused about this change.
Relevant editorial inIvestor’s Business Daily in Dec 2013:
How Much Redistribution Is Enough?
“The CBO study breaks down the country by income into five equal groups, or quintiles. It found the top 40% paid more than 100% of all the income taxes, while the bottom 40% had a negative income tax. These families got more money through various refundable tax credits, on average, than they paid in income taxes.
Even when you include payroll and other federal taxes, the poorest group paid just 0.4% of all federal taxes, while the wealthiest paid 70%.”
Republicans should be able to make something out of that...except that they are complicit in redirecting the effects of public anger away from their top contributors.
Republicans want everyone to be rich and Democrats want no one to be rich...except themselves.
Another good article:
Richard Riordan and Eli Broad: It isn’t a sin to be rich
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108535/posts
“We also need wealthy Americans to create those jobs.”
it’s one of a few things they can rely on....they know their in big time trouble over Odungocare. It’s about to get even nastier...the law suits are mounting, which drives the little boy king to the narcissistic revenge mode, which in turn exposes his actions even more, which in turn,drives his numbers down and makes him even more unpopular...he can’t help it, he’s sick.
It’s Trickle Down Big Government vs LIBERTY.
I'm going to start using the party of slavery instead of the "democrat party" which invokes so much backlash. I imagine it will be even more effective as a chain pulling device.
It's historically accurate and it's not a false insult as "war on women" or other such nonsense that they use.
There is absolutely nothing worse than a civil war (well, losing one is the worst), but sometimes, as a last resort, they are necessary and inevitable.
I am in my 60’s, and have been an avid reader of history since I was a young boy. I tell you, things are lining up for just such a last resort. I wonder if it can be averted. Then again, I am reminded of something Grace Slick said many, many years ago: “It doesn’t mean shit to a tree.”
New report debunks narrative on income inequality
http://www.laffercenter.com/2012/07/lefts-dubious-history-income-inequality/
The Latest News on Tax Fairness-top 20%’s share up, everyone else’s share down over last 30 years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577537250318931044.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
If fairness in paying taxes means the amount you pay is based on the amount you make, then the only group in America paying at least a “fair share” is the top 20%—people who make more than $74,000. For everyone else, the tax code is a bargain.
You wouldn’t know this from rat rhetoric, but our tax system, according to a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), is incredibly progressive. Consider: The top 1% of income earners pay an average federal tax rate of 28.9%. (See the nearby table.) The average federal tax rate on the top 20% is 23.2%. The 20% of taxpayers earning between $50,100 and $73,999 pay an average 15.1%, and so on down the line. The CBO report includes payroll as well as income taxes paid.
There’s also another way of looking at fairness, and that’s the tax burden. Here, consider the top 20% of income earners (over $74,000). They make 50% of the nation’s income but pay nearly 70% of all federal taxes.
The remaining 30% of the tax burden is borne by 80% of the taxpayers, those who make less than $74,000. In short, this group’s share of taxes paid, 30%, is lower than the share of income they earn, 50%.
Yet President Obama says that “for some time now, when compared to the middle class,” the wealthy “haven’t been asked to do their fair share.”
He’s right that the system isn’t fair, but not because the top 1% pay too little. It is because they pay too much.
“Republicans better get on the ball and start fighting this NOW — read up on Ronald Reagan. “
Sorry, they are too busy fighting their base and legalizing 30 million more Democrat voters.
How many poor people ride on John Kerry’s yacht? Besides the ones that serve the drinks.
How many poor people could John Kerry’s Aspen lodge house?
If only the republicans had some gonads. Look at this message the democrats are telling the American people. “You’re poor, you will always be poor, don’t even try, but vote for us and we’ll give you table scraps.”