(I understand we're talking about--Will Politics in 2015 Catch Up with the Economy?) The so-called evidence of "Middle class wage stagnation " is so foggy that it's not useful for policy and only good for politics. Incomes are in fact up, & my bet is that the middle class is fine w/ incomes. What's more clear is that the shrinking workforce is leaving ten million w/o jobs and another 3 million demoted to part time.
...constantly running solely on tax cuts isn’t going to get the job done. There needs to be a focus on “creating an environment for economic growth."
Yeah I'd agree that the ongoing war on business has to stop, but the first clear sign should be an end to punitive crushing taxation. We don't make the 99% better off by attacking the 1%. The republicans make a bad choice when they abandon principle for vain hopes of gaining media favor. Running Jeb Bush would just guarantee a President Warner.
I can make a case for cutting the business tax and eliminating a lot of the deductions. But the fiscal issues are not going to be solved on the taxation or on the spending side. It can only be solved via growth.
After what I’ve seen the last 20 years in the way the “1%” in the corporate and political world don’t ask me my opinion of taxation of the “achievers”.........