This was a good article. Thank you for posting it.
Webb is right about the economic issues.
Dead right.
The Republican model is skewed towards the top.
The Democrat model has been skewed towards the bottom.
Politicially, the right thing to do is skew the tax structure and job security towards the middle.
Uh, how would you propose we legislate "job security?"
The middle and the bottom do not create jobs. Without jobs there is no job security.
Good article ? Maybe if you are a Marxist and believe in the tenets of 'The Communist Manifesto'. Some people have no clue about economics and fall prey to emotional appeals and arguments.
Or better yet, get rid of income tax.
A family of 4 making 40 grand pays practically nothing in income taxes.
The bottom 50% of wage earners pay 5% of the income taxes.
If we skew things anymore towards the middle we'll have to declare the "rich" indentured servants.
You've got a typo in there. He's dead ~wrong~.
Just tryin' ta' be helpful. :-)
Why do we have to skew the tax structure at all?
And I don't want to see it "skewed" any worse than it already is.
How right you are!!
THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL.
Which is all you would get if the Democrats had their way.
The GOP philosophy, and the GOP efforts, are geared toward levels of the economic strata being better able to earn and provide for themselves and family.
What, pray tell, are the Democrats doing for the "bottom"??
Consider this fact:
The Clinton economy in the 90s was built on phony dot.com wealth, which in reality was simply overinflated companies which had no backbone and no infrastructure.
The GWB economy of 2001-2006 is built on reality, with companies making REAL earnings, and building REAL infrastructure.
Amazingly, the Bush economy is bringing along the entire world, with REAL growth and REAL investment.
The Clinton economy diss-intentigrated as soon as people realized their hard earned money was invested in a Ponzi scheme (dot.com.baloney).
Thankfully, the GWB economy is backed up by an American workforce second to none, with a RECORD number of people who OWN THEIR HOMES.
It's amazing that there are so many smart people who cant see that.
The flood of illegal aliens is the reason that wages in bottom have fallen further behind. Here, the one-world globalists are at fault. They really believe in this stuff. Guess who benefits. The privileged elites get the lion's share of the gains in productivity -- not the hardscrapple workers and the middle class. The middle class is also squeezed by medical expenses, which can be blamed on two main causes: illegal aliens driving up the cost of medical care, which is shifted to middle class users and a system that does not promote competition among health care providers.
Exactly. The Democrats have succeeded in ruining the educational system -- millions of young people can not be held to standards because of the Democrats. Failure at being able to learn skills necessary to make good money has been the result. The economy is hanging by a thread.