Posted on 12/02/2014 6:59:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Tax cuts for the rich = tax cuts for the middle class.
Dunno, it seemed to work when the Obamadork and his collection of low IQ lib supporters did that for GM, insurance companies supporting his idiot health program, and the numerous other examples of crony capitalism extant.
Shove it, dork.
Not my favorite piece from Pethokoukis.....
I hate marxists.
One smarr probrem, Grasshopper. Lowering taxes actually increases revenue to the Treasury which gives totalitarians even more money to spend.
The GOP could get more creative by tying cuts in corporate tax rates to percentages of US citizens hired and percentages of operations located in the US and compliance with legal work status verification and a commitment to NOT replace US workers with foreign ones.
I’m not usually for this kind of thing but the fact is it already exists and we can either cast taxes in such a way that it wins the hearts and minds of the US working class or we can cast it so it appears to benefit only the most well off which of course isn’t true but with a media as it is perception becomes reality.
Also by doing this we put Democrats and pro amnesty types on the defensive. Most Americans believe American citizens should be first in line for US jobs and should not be replaced by foreign labor. Its an easy win for the GOP and it would reward companies that are pro US and incentify a return to the US.
typical "progressive" moron drooling the same old tired inaccurate BS.
lowering tax rates have repeatedly proven to have a positive growth effect on the economy and to increase revenue to the govt. thats a FACT, something with which a liberal nitwit is not familiar.
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Pethokoukis may have a point here. After all, the 1 % have made out like bandits during Obozo’s administration. I say tax increases for them, but only if the increases goes toward cutting the deficit and are earmarked for that only and nothing else. The Republicans need to focus on stopping illegal immigration. That is a winning ticket. Most Americans are fed up with our country being invaded.
They don’t EVER “promise tax cuts for the rich”.
They promise tax cuts for tax PAYERS.
And the left spins that as tax cuts for the “rich”.
Do an Obama!
Tax!!!! Tax everyone who does not pay a tax. The lower tax level is exempt from taxes so remove that exemption and have a flat minimum figure for everyone in that category. If even a dollar, it would be a sizable addition to the treasury.
But the idea I like best is: approve a constitutional amendment that only citizen tax payers are eligible to vote in national elections - no tax, no ballot!
Any process t to truly looking at how and what you do and if still need to do it. It is brutal, but you need to do sometimes to survive, especially if you mission is shareholder value and you pedal to GAAP and Sarb-Ox.
This article didn't mention re-inventing/downsizing at all.
We haven't done that with Fedzilla and every freakin' program, line item, grant, and Cabinet Level Departments.
Why no mention of not spending a dime on NPR/PBS, and privatizing AMTRAK, and finally getting rid of Fannie and Freddie and Sally Mae for starters.
Lord help us if "Jim P" is another beltway bandit mindset that this is off limits, because my guess darn near 100% of the Reaganites aka us Tea Partier's want to lift up the hood and get it running right....
Does the writer not see how dangerous it is to have a tax system where 40% have nothing to lose and everything to gain if rates are jacked up?
One of the primary reasons I always supported tax cuts was to defund and cut back on the massive growth of the government state. But with all the endless deficit-spending and QE money-printing (and the apparent lack of economic punishment from doing so, via interest rates and such), the whole aspect of taxes on government spending seems a rather moot part of the equation now.
Added to this, I don’t really trust the corrupt scumbags who would just make changes to the system to promote their own winners and losers. So, I can’t say the issue of ‘taxes’ resonates with me the way it once did, in swaying my vote, other than perhaps in terms of local scenarios. And I certainly have no sympathy for the Wall Street crowd, with their pushing of things like amnesty and the homo agenda. Anything that hurts them is now fine by me.
Only because of increasing stock prices & real estate. And those are propped up by QE and zero interest rates.
Cut taxes and the 1% will make money, but the old fashioned way, and a rising tide etc.
Of course the writer sees! The writer does not care!
Cut corporate taxes because corporations don’t pay taxes, they simply pass them on to their customers as a cost of doing business.
There was a big discussion last week among conservatives that Pethokoukis has gone off the rails. Seems he's buying into some bad ideas. On one hand here, I agree. The 2012 tax plan was solely a debate on the top 1 percent. It was easy to demagogue. Tax reform is a winnig debate. Romney's position was a political loser. Bush won largely on across the board rate reductions. In 2016 we are ripe for a real reform of the irs....cleaning up the code, lowering rates for all and simplifying it for lower brackets as well as higher.
Sadly, I think he is right. Economically fatuous, but politically correct.
2016 is going to be fought on the battlefield of Economic Populism, for better or worse.
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