No More Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest

[cannabineer]

taxes should go up for the wealthy for the quite simple reason that income inequality is driving us towards a fascist plutocracy at an alarming rate.

As a member of the plutocracy (as vouchsafed by your Illuminati membership), the bad part of this is ... ?? cn

 

[cannabineer]

I just want to interject something here that has not been mentioned and I know that everybody wants to be accurate and factual. Didn't Clinton have a republican controlled congress? I believe it was the first time in like 40 years that the GOP took control.

That is bound to have been a factor. Clinton chose not to veto, to his credit. cn

 

[UncleBuck]

As a member of the plutocracy (as vouchsafed by your Illuminati membership), the bad part of this is ... ?? cn

i had no idea that vouchsafe was a word.

 

[cannabineer]

i had no idea that vouchsafe was a word.

I adore archaisms. cn
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vouchsafe?s=t

 

[UncleBuck]

I adore archaisms. cn
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vouchsafe?s=t

sounds like a shakespeare invention, but i noticed it's not.

 

[beenthere]

if we tax those at the top at a higher rate, we creep closer to reasonable levels of income inequality even if we don't redistribute it to the middle class.

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there ya go, start crying class warfare.

it's not retribution, it's about not letting history repeat itself. it's about preserving this nation. it's about balancing the power. it;s about preventing oligarchy.

moar focks nuze pls.

As you can see, you cried the first tear of class warfare. I'm fine where I'm at, taxing the wealthy will not put any money in my pocket, only take it out.
BTW, you need to look up the word redistribute, you correctly used the word in your first quote, then contradicted yourself in the next! LOL Rookie!

 

[abandonconflict]

As you can see, you cried the first tear of class warfare. I'm fine where I'm at, taxing the wealthy will not put any money in my pocket, only take it out.
BTW, you need to look up the word redistribute, you correctly used the word in your first quote, then contradicted yourself in the next! LOL Rookie!

I see you are still convinced redistribution = retribution.

 

[Balzac89]

Raise wages, raise taxes and cut spending.

 

[abandonconflict]

Raise wages, raise taxes and cut spending.

Increase aggregate demand and the market will have been revived. Simple as that. If there is a demand for goods and services, someone, somewhere will rise to meet that demand.

 

[Balzac89]

Increase aggregate demand and the market will have been revived. Simple as that. If there is a demand for goods and services, someone, somewhere will rise to meet that demand.

You gonna pull demand out of thin air?

 

[abandonconflict]

You gonna pull demand out of thin air?

Yes, by giving poor people money to get by.

 

[Balzac89]

Worker productivity is up by 80 percent and wages have increased 30 percent in the last 40 years. Adjusting for inflation minimum wage should be 10 dollars an hour.

IF you increase wages people will have money to spend and demand will increase and more jobs will be created by demand.

You say oh we just need to increase demand.......... okay good idea except you got nothing to do it with except words.

People are living pay check to pay check and barely able to pay for the basics you think thats a buying economy.

We had the biggest growth after WWII when the middle class rose with wages.

 

[Balzac89]

Yes, by giving poor people money to get by.

Debt always the best solution for Americans

 

[abandonconflict]

Debt always the best solution for Americans

 

[Balzac89]

okay I don't see why you posted that

 

[abandonconflict]

okay I don't see why you posted that

Now that so many of Bush's expenditures are being removed, the deficit will dwindle.

 

[Balzac89]

Now that so many of Bush's expenditures are being removed, the deficit will dwindle.

We should strive to hold the least amount of debt as possible.

 

[cannabineer]

Yes, by giving poor people money to get by.

But how to do this without descending into Keynesian madness? cn

 

[Balzac89]

The deficit needs to be erased before we will ever start paying down the debt.

 

[abandonconflict]

But how to do this without descending into Keynesian madness? cn

It isn't permanent, but Americans must eat.