ReallyMeow
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You're also the guy parroting the nonsense you gleaned from progressive sites that make you believe that Reagan was a tax and spend conservative simply because he raised a tax 11 times over an eight year period of time. What you won't admit is that those taxes were by and large all excise taxes on items such as cigarettes, alcohol and gasoline...and that Reagan fought hard to keep the rates on income taxes low.
Hiking taxes on "everyone" while slashing taxes on one specific class of people is class warfare. Reagan engaged in it, we're just taking it back.
So there we have it kids, another resplendent example of a conservative hating Americans: "workers dont deserve the opportunity for upwards mobility, if you arnt born rich and groomed for it since birth, you are obviously a reckless degenerate and should only be paid base sustenance as a means of keeping you safely away from the stock markets, and in a persistent fugue of desperation." reminds me of the ministry of plenty.The Middle Class is just as capable of making investments as the wealthy? Did you really just make that idiotic statement? No, the Middle Class is not just as "capable" of making investments in start up companies as venture capitalists are. First of all they don't have the large amounts of capital that start ups need and they don't have the business acumen to put together such a deal.
No, we take what we need in order to keep society functional, taking less IS giving them something. If you are working a cash register and you skip scanning an item for your buddy, you arnt "not taking" something from him, you just gave him the pack of smokes for free, jackass. We spend alot of money building the infrastructure, keeping order, preping people to be trainable at all, we dont even ask for the money up front and only want a cut of the profits: but when you make it big, show some fucking gratitude.We're not "heaping money on the rich" by the way. What we ARE doing is enticing those with capital to invest it here in the US rather than invest elsewhere or put it into tax shelters...neither one of which does anything to alleviate the lack of jobs in this country. You're not "giving" them anything...you're simply not "taking" so much from them that you dissuade them from investing in the first place.
And who's talking about "tax evasion"? The wealthy aren't breaking any tax laws when they put their money into tax shelters to avoid paying taxes. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about on this issue, do you?
tax evasion, avoid paying taxes
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Just like Democrats have never shown how raising taxes will improve an economy.
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Hate to point out the inconvenient truth, Toronado...but compared to the deficits that we're running now...the deficits we were running back in Dutch Reagan's time were rather minuscule. His highest was 478.8 billion which pales in comparison to the smallest that Barack Obama has done which was 885 billion...let alone his high...which was a trillion and a half.
First, BUSH'S high was a trillion and a half, this is like being mad at the fire department because the house was on fire when they showed up. Second, do you even know what inflation is? Whats 500 billion then vs 1.4 trillion now? oh snap, its dam near the same thing.
Inflation Calculator: Bureau of Labor Statistics
You're the guy who espouses a Keynesian approach to government stimulus but won't admit that even Keynes only advocated tax increases in an expanding economy and specifically advised against them in a weak economy.
Maybe instead of spreading this around like an old wives tale, on the merit of keynes' authority you actually produce something to substantiate your interpretation of absolutionism on the subject of not taxing more in a recession PARTICULARLY on the rich. Seeing as the upper most tax rate on income over (todays equivalent of approximately a million bucks) was 94% at its peak after WW2. They were coming out of two wars and a recession, We're coming out of two wars and a recession: tax the rich.
Also, with all this talk about "college" courses:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1445#comic