I love a good train wreck so I really love this Republican primary.
If only this was the dumbest thing to come from a Republican primary candidate.
Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Congressional Republicans Hate Jobs, Love Millionaires
Republicans have been shouting "class warfare" for some time now and to be honest, I was mostly wishing it would be true. I wish we would rise up and say, THIS JUST ISN'T FAIR. Inequality in the United States has gotten out of control and the decisions we make about taxes, banks, and debt are not just finanical decisions, but also moral ones.
A worker with a college education is less likely to have employer health insurance today than a worker with a high school education was in 1979. Between 1979 and 2005 the top .1% of Americans saw their incomes grow 400%.
And even though we now have Occupy Wall Street, the truth is that class warfare isn't coming from below - it's coming from above. It's coming from millionaires and billionaires and their Republican allies in Congress who are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their bags and bags of money. And don't for a second believe they're going to back down anytime soon.
Every single Republican candidate for President said they would have rejected a debt deal that included $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Not a single Republican was willing to break a filibuster on an infrastructure spending bill that would be paid in full by a .7% tax surcharge on incomes over $1,000,000.
The result? A reduced credit rating. No new roads. No new jobs. Gobs and gobs of money for the top 1%.
You want to talk about partisanship in government? Democrats are tripping over themselves to compromise away all the things their base cares about, while Republicans will die fighting a one cent tax increase. I want to pull my hair out just thinking about it.
And the worst part is that after killing every job creation idea that comes across the table, Republicans will cry about how Obama hasn't fixed the economy come election time. I am here to tell you do not believe the lies.
A worker with a college education is less likely to have employer health insurance today than a worker with a high school education was in 1979. Between 1979 and 2005 the top .1% of Americans saw their incomes grow 400%.
And even though we now have Occupy Wall Street, the truth is that class warfare isn't coming from below - it's coming from above. It's coming from millionaires and billionaires and their Republican allies in Congress who are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their bags and bags of money. And don't for a second believe they're going to back down anytime soon.
Every single Republican candidate for President said they would have rejected a debt deal that included $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Not a single Republican was willing to break a filibuster on an infrastructure spending bill that would be paid in full by a .7% tax surcharge on incomes over $1,000,000.
The result? A reduced credit rating. No new roads. No new jobs. Gobs and gobs of money for the top 1%.
You want to talk about partisanship in government? Democrats are tripping over themselves to compromise away all the things their base cares about, while Republicans will die fighting a one cent tax increase. I want to pull my hair out just thinking about it.
And the worst part is that after killing every job creation idea that comes across the table, Republicans will cry about how Obama hasn't fixed the economy come election time. I am here to tell you do not believe the lies.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Top Republicans Want to Raise Taxes on the Poor
This is not The Onion. This is just how ridiculous things have gotten in the Republican leadership. Today, the New York Times ran an editorial titled "The New Resentment of the Poor," which noted that Republican presidential hopefuls Michelle Bachmann, John Huntsman, and Rick Perry (with an E not an A for America) as well as House majority leader Eric Cantor have all said that not enough people pay taxes and more people should.
Yes, some people don't pay Federal income taxes. You know why? Because they are so poor and have so little income we choose not to tax it. Instead we let them keep it so they can buy yachts, fill up their children's trust funds, and go on a vacation to Turks and Caicos. Oh just kidding, that part actually is a joke. We let them keep what little income they make so that they can just manage to feed their families and pay for gas to get to their super low-income job. It's the millionaires and billionaires whose taxes we lower to historic levels so they can buy the yachts and fill the trust funds. It's good for the economy you see; rich people create jobs. I bet you've never seen a poor person create a job. That's why since we've lowered taxes on the rich, the economy has improved so much.
It gets very confusing these days who has too much. Poor families pay too little in taxes! Teachers make too much money! Women have too many rights! Oops, I think we're still supposed to be embarrassed by saying one of those out loud. Go Bachmann!
Yes, some people don't pay Federal income taxes. You know why? Because they are so poor and have so little income we choose not to tax it. Instead we let them keep it so they can buy yachts, fill up their children's trust funds, and go on a vacation to Turks and Caicos. Oh just kidding, that part actually is a joke. We let them keep what little income they make so that they can just manage to feed their families and pay for gas to get to their super low-income job. It's the millionaires and billionaires whose taxes we lower to historic levels so they can buy the yachts and fill the trust funds. It's good for the economy you see; rich people create jobs. I bet you've never seen a poor person create a job. That's why since we've lowered taxes on the rich, the economy has improved so much.
It gets very confusing these days who has too much. Poor families pay too little in taxes! Teachers make too much money! Women have too many rights! Oops, I think we're still supposed to be embarrassed by saying one of those out loud. Go Bachmann!
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