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You know, raised payroll taxes aren’t that bad.
We were gonna pay that shit when tax season came around anyway. The Dems and the GOP just need to stop trying to turn everything into a pissing match this year. More so the GOP.
Sacrificing social and education programs is the equivalent of taxing the poor and middle class
Some people are wholeheartedly against taxing the wealthy, but fine with budget cuts to social and education programs. We don’t often think of this as taxation the same way we think of income taxation, but in reality it’s very similar. When we tax the wealthy, we take what is essentially excess and non-essential income. When we cut social and education programs we take from those that already have little to give. We also take from them in a way that can’t be fixed through better investment strategies or better income appropriations. We take the already limited opportunities they have for success and healthy livelihood, while the wealthy hardly suffer as they are completely capable of affording alternatives to public education and welfare.
If there’s one thing I love, it’s when social science punches politics in the face.
Despite the studies, denied by Republicans to the death, that demonstrate that upper class wealth holders are more likely to hoard and invest cash than actually spend it into job creation, more evidence still comes! A recent study shows that, as I and the rest of the fucking sane world guessed, wealth holders actually give little to no shit about small tax increases. It plays almost no role in where they decide to live or how they decide to live.
Who would have guessed that having a shit-ton of cash and existing in a world with a million other determinants of where to live makes you care little to not at all about tax hikes?
Obama better keep his balls with this one. Going head to head with Boehner might be just the fight the Administration needs to prove to its doubters that they are at least willing to defend real bipartisanship. This would be completely the opposite of the current picture of Obama as a G.O.P. place mat.
B.T.W. the Tax Code is “Class Warfare.” The fact that Buffet gets taxed at a rate lower than his employees is testimony to that. And I for one am ready to jump on the image of the wealthy “Tax Queen” just as quickly as the Republicans were ready to scarf down the “Welfare Queen” propaganda. The G.O.P.’s attempt to flip the image of that fact will forever disturb me. Do they want to be portrayed as literally the party of the rich?
A warm reminder that not everyone is as blind to Congress’ “super-rich coddling” as Boehner seems to be.
I’m sorry BoBo but your party was the one that decided to block everything in the Senate. So whaa if there was a response in the House.
Higher Taxes, and Subsidized Art is what I say!
It’s like no matter what the government or big corporations due, the little guy will find a clever way to work around the complications of boundaries.
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