Posted on 11/29/2012 2:45:59 AM PST by Kaslin
If the Democrats could figure out a way to ban the Republican Party and exile all conservatives and everyone who ever even voted Republican (or better yet, to them, exterminate us as the vermin they believe we are), 500 years from now they'd still be blaming Republicans for everyone living in Brazilian shanty town conditions.
There, I said it. You all know it's true
The Non-Fox Media managed to persuade a majority of voters that the last four years of jobless misery was George W. Bush's fault, having nothing whatsoever to do with Obama.
As I said above. . .
Republicans have a PR problem, not an economic theory problem
Agreed, the problem the Republican Party is a failure of marketing.
Finally someone articulates what this is, in a way that explains why a tax increase on employers and investors will in the end harm precisely those its sponsors claim to want to "help".
However, as a small business owner (15 employees) I agree with Ann that the Republicans should educate, warn, and predict the increase in unemployment, and the increase in the prices of every product and service we buy, that will inevitably ensue as a result of the tax increase, but should attempt to negotiate in exchange a reduction in regulations. My company can withstand another 5% in income tax. Regulations and Obamacare are together costing me far more.
I just refinanced a commercial property to lower the mortgage payment, and was required to do a phase 2 environmental study-cost-$21,000. I've financed and refinanced properties for 30 years and had never been required to do more than a phase 1 environmental, which is far less expensive. Banks are, of course, getting their marching orders from the regulators now infested with leftists. This is how businesses that the Obama regime doesn't like will get targeted, mostly those businesses in industries that serve the poor.
Health care increase last year-14%. This year 23%.
Last year I had two more employees than I do now. Correlation? Sure. I say let the tax increases happen, and attempt to lower regulations on all business, not just small ones (suggestion-Dodd-Frank). The silver lining in this for me is that my customers are NOT getting tax increases, that is, those who manage to keep their jobs.
We can't give Bush a fourth term or Andy Cuomo will be president for his fifth.
You’re right, we can’t expect misinformed voters to understand anything about economic issues, all they know is what people like Letterman, Leno, Maddow, Schultz, Matthews, MSNBC etc., tells them.
The coming economic catastrophe will be “owned” by republicans, no matter what.
Bada ping! Exactamundo.
Republicans should announce that they will NOT oppose a tax increase.
But they should name the bill something like "ObamaCURE - a bill to solve all the country's problems."
But when the vote comes up, every Republican should vote PRESENT.
As soon as the Democrats realize that the upcoming fiscal collapse will be blamed entirely on them, they will quickly change their votes and the thing will be defeated.
but wouldn’t that make them just as guilty, or like if they didn’t care?
Give the Democrats everything they want. They think higher taxes on the rich will improve the economy? Let’s prove them wrong by letting them raise taxes. I’ve been saying this for months.
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't
think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson (democrat)
Fine idea in theory, but in reality, the Dems will “own” the economy only when it’s advantageous to do so.
I agree with your amendment. I hope they do this.
Absolutely right. Then, in 2 years, when they want to be re-elected, what happens? They run against people who correctly point out that the current representative went to DC, voted 'present' on the biggest legislation of our time, and didn't represent you. I see giving the dems everything they want as the only sure way to hand them back the House in 2 years.
At the very least, higher taxes on the rich will mean less they can donate to leftist political causes.
If the Repub leadership keeps giving the impression that they represent millionaires, then they’ll be out of power for a long time (forcing the morality/values issues into the background). People with no work or money don’t vote on values (which is why a conservative Repub should have easily beaten Obama earlier this month, but we never had a chance to try it).
If the Repub leadership keeps giving the impression that they represent millionaires, then they’ll be out of power for a long time (forcing the morality/values issues into the background). People with no work or money don’t vote on values (which is why a conservative Repub should have easily beaten Obama earlier this month, but we never had a chance to try it).
“They have won, we have lost and in doing so, the Country that we have loved will become a quaint memory.”
If the Dems didn’t miss by so much in the House I’d agree with you. Let Americans have four more years of President Foodstamps and we’ll see how receptive they are to having an intelligent, literate president again.
You make a valid point, I think you hit the nail on the head, I agree, that’s true, I just fear tax increases on the rich will be passed onto the middle class and the poor via consumption in a poor economy where things like food sizes have already been reduced due to inflation.
I’m not even advocating raising the taxes on the rich; the Repubs just have to stop letting the media paint them as representing the 1%.
Nobody runs a business to lose money, or just break even; when you destroy the profit motive you destroy business (and the related jobs). That in a nutshell is the fatal economic flaw of communism (and to a lesser extent Western European-style socialism); there is no incentive to excel.
I like that.
When the vote comes up every Republican should vote PRESENT.
That was the usual vote of Obama when he was in the Senate.
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