About Economy
This post was a comment to a very well-written, uh, 'advice' column to help guide the talking heads that appear on national news venues with labels of "Dem Strategist" at the bottom of the screen. The link to the original article on Huffington Post is at the end...
Number 8 (1929 wealth concentrations) must precede #5. Precede 5 with the fact that bush and mccain lowered taxes for them 7 years ago. We're taking back the undeserved gift. Cite the amount of money bush and mccain have personally saved with those tax cuts.
This needs to be coupled with citation of the corporate tax loopholes that have been exploited. We have to close them - and pre-accuse the neocons of calling this a "tax increase". These off-shore weasels are scofflaws. We all have to pay a share of the bill to protect this country (which includes it's "markets," right??) and manage infrastructure, and since corporations are technically people, they MUST be held to the same standard that we are all held too.
Oh, the other thing that will be said by neocons about raising taxes on the wealthy is, "investment will stop overnight!" Not only did the 1990s prove that wrong, but research reported at HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/its-our-turn-now_b_102345.html) shows that investment is at an all-time low right now. This either tells you the sacred correlation between taxes and investment is bulls--t (which it is) or we have to eliminate all taxes on the wealthy so that they can start creating jobs for us.... because no one else can create a job except them, apparently.
If these jerks were so much smarter than everyone, the economy would ALWAYS be great. Wealth does NOT equate to brains, skill, wisdom, or future success. In fact, after you hang around a few sickeningly wealthy people, you start to notice that there's more of an inverse relationship. That is, the more money you have, the less wisdom you tend to have. And when the wealthy person lived in wealth from his/her birth, it's a good 90% certainty that he/she will have significantly diminished skills and actions - which I attribute to the delusions of grandeur that has to be very difficult to prevent when raised in the lap of luxury. I pity those people. But I sure don't have to give support to the notion that they ARE superior and need beneficial tax treatment.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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