Why can't the Democrats and the Republicans cooperate to lower the deficit and increase the debt ceiling? Both parties claim that this is what they want. to lower the now over 14 trillion dollars in Federal debt. To a manageable number such that all our tax money isn't just going to pay the interest. A very real prospect that is already starting to happen.
So what's the problem? Apparently there was an agreement on the table that would have lowered spending in an amount that both parties agreed to. So what was the difference? The proposal would have plugged tax loopholes for big corporations and the rich. Loopholes like subsidies for corporate Jets, and for big oil corporations who, by the way made record profits last year. So, What's wrong with that? They can afford it right? Well, not so fast, You see, the hard line Republicans promised not to raise taxes under any circumstances. Woa, wait a second. Is plugging tax loopholes the same as raising taxes?
And what if it is? The only people that will be affected are millionaires and billionaires and a few giant corporations. Well according to John Boehner and his Republican colleagues, the answer is "Yes" plugging loopholes and tax subsidies for the rich and companies that can most afford them is, "raising taxes".
So what would happen if we let the Republicans have their way, and make cuts in Federal spending without increasing the tax base by closing loopholes in the tax code?
Well, services will have to be cut, or defunded or even "privatized". Things like medicare, Social security, healthcare, grants and funding for programs for people with special needs.
In other words it's you and me, the working people who will have to pay for these "cuts" in government spending. If you ask me, cutting my social services is getting less for my tax dollar so THAT is like raising MY taxes.
So why in the world would anyone want to do that the American People?
Well, the dirty secret is, that the Republican's constituency are the big corporations and the rich. And they have an agenda. And that agenda is to minimize government and government oversight of the financial and business sector. To eliminate any government programs that do not directly or indirectly put federal money into the greedy hands of the big corporations and the rich and powerful. And finally to privatize or eliminate any social programs for the poor and middle class, because this is a waste of good money that could be further enriching the rich.
It is Capitalism gone amok.
Lesser nations have had social revolutions in the face of such exploitation of the masses.
What amazes me, is that there seem to be plenty of middle class suckers out there that buy into this Republican snow-job. People like you and me who are afraid that "raising taxes" means raising our taxes.
Wake up America. The Republicans aren't working for you.
They are working for the rich, and when they have privatized your social security, like they did with our retirement programs, and they drive the economy into the ground AGAIN, It is YOU and ME that will lose all our money, and be out in the street with NO social safety net. while the Government, once again, opens the Treasury doors and unloads billions of dollars in bailout money into the coffers of the big banks and the rich.
Vote out the Republicans!
Bring back government of the people, by the people and for the people.
-BBM
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Why the stalemate on the budget?
What do the Republicans really want? To save unborn babies? To fix the deficit? to create jobs?
The only "jobs" the Republicans will be creating with their version of the budget is of the "snow" type.
Just think about it for one moment...
They say they the government is spending beyond its means, and we "have to cut spending so our grandchildren do not have to pay the interest..." on what everyone agrees is even currently a massive government deficit.
And yet...and yet.. they don't want to raise taxes on the rich. Who are the rich? The rich are the 3% of our citizens that have more wealth than the rest of us combined. You heard me, only 3% of the population of this great nation has managed to accumulate more wealth than if the rest of us put all our money in big pot. And guess how much they pay in taxes? Guess, go on, 40%? 50%, try 15%, that's right, the maximum tax on capital gains tax is 15%.
I don't know about you but I pay 30% of my income to Uncle Sam. And even if one of these rich people actually did work for a living, they would only have to pay 35% in taxes, and that's not counting all the loop holes they have access too. Hey! That's only 5% more than me! These people make 1000 times what I make in a year and they are paying only 5% more in taxes than me? And big corporations like GE who had record profits last year, don't pay any taxes at all! What's wrong with this picture?
So why won't the Republicans, (who are so focused on fixing the deficit for our grandchildren) tax the rich at a rate that is more consummate with their income? Why? Why Mr. Boehner? Why do you want to defund the Healthcare bill? Take away women's access to preventative health care? Why do you want to cut social services like the Housing and Urban development fund, Terminate the alternative Welfare program, Eliminate the Presidential Election fund. Why don't you just raise taxes on the rich????
Do you see a theme here? The republicans want to cut the social programs that help middle and lower class schmucks like you and me. While the rich folk sit fat and happy in the Big House hardly paying any taxes at all.
Wake up people, the Republicans don't care about unborn babies or the "Government takeover of healthcare" or even the deficit. They care about the people that pay for them to remain in office. The Fat Cats and the corporations that put them in office. They work for them, not us. Not "the people".
The Democrats have already agreed to the amount of cuts that the republicans have asked for. So if it's just about the deficit like the Republicans say, then what's the problem? Why is it so important that the cuts be about social services that affect you and me?
The truth is, it'a about whittling away government, and the oversight and services it provides to ordinary people to protect us from being exploited by big corporations and the mega rich.
When all the oversight is gone, and there are no more regulations and no more taxes, no more unions, and the rich and the corporations can pay us all minimum wage, and keep us all hungry so we have no choice but to work for them, and all our money goes to the private sector, then will they be happy?
Open your eyes America. If the government shuts down, it will be because the Republicans did not get their way. It's not about cutting spending like John Boehner repeats over and over again like a parrot, it's about cutting your social services, it's about not taxing the rich, it's about crippling government oversight, it's about keeping the workers down, and keeping that money in the 3% at the top of the pyramid, instead of re distributing it, in terms of services, oversight protections, and much, much needed good paying jobs.
The Republicans are not your friends, they are not patriots, they are thugs, thugs working for The Man, who will exploit you, and keep you down, so that he can have his way with our government, and with our money.
Tax the rich, protect the workers.
The only "jobs" the Republicans will be creating with their version of the budget is of the "snow" type.
Just think about it for one moment...
They say they the government is spending beyond its means, and we "have to cut spending so our grandchildren do not have to pay the interest..." on what everyone agrees is even currently a massive government deficit.
And yet...and yet.. they don't want to raise taxes on the rich. Who are the rich? The rich are the 3% of our citizens that have more wealth than the rest of us combined. You heard me, only 3% of the population of this great nation has managed to accumulate more wealth than if the rest of us put all our money in big pot. And guess how much they pay in taxes? Guess, go on, 40%? 50%, try 15%, that's right, the maximum tax on capital gains tax is 15%.
I don't know about you but I pay 30% of my income to Uncle Sam. And even if one of these rich people actually did work for a living, they would only have to pay 35% in taxes, and that's not counting all the loop holes they have access too. Hey! That's only 5% more than me! These people make 1000 times what I make in a year and they are paying only 5% more in taxes than me? And big corporations like GE who had record profits last year, don't pay any taxes at all! What's wrong with this picture?
So why won't the Republicans, (who are so focused on fixing the deficit for our grandchildren) tax the rich at a rate that is more consummate with their income? Why? Why Mr. Boehner? Why do you want to defund the Healthcare bill? Take away women's access to preventative health care? Why do you want to cut social services like the Housing and Urban development fund, Terminate the alternative Welfare program, Eliminate the Presidential Election fund. Why don't you just raise taxes on the rich????
Do you see a theme here? The republicans want to cut the social programs that help middle and lower class schmucks like you and me. While the rich folk sit fat and happy in the Big House hardly paying any taxes at all.
Wake up people, the Republicans don't care about unborn babies or the "Government takeover of healthcare" or even the deficit. They care about the people that pay for them to remain in office. The Fat Cats and the corporations that put them in office. They work for them, not us. Not "the people".
The Democrats have already agreed to the amount of cuts that the republicans have asked for. So if it's just about the deficit like the Republicans say, then what's the problem? Why is it so important that the cuts be about social services that affect you and me?
The truth is, it'a about whittling away government, and the oversight and services it provides to ordinary people to protect us from being exploited by big corporations and the mega rich.
When all the oversight is gone, and there are no more regulations and no more taxes, no more unions, and the rich and the corporations can pay us all minimum wage, and keep us all hungry so we have no choice but to work for them, and all our money goes to the private sector, then will they be happy?
Open your eyes America. If the government shuts down, it will be because the Republicans did not get their way. It's not about cutting spending like John Boehner repeats over and over again like a parrot, it's about cutting your social services, it's about not taxing the rich, it's about crippling government oversight, it's about keeping the workers down, and keeping that money in the 3% at the top of the pyramid, instead of re distributing it, in terms of services, oversight protections, and much, much needed good paying jobs.
The Republicans are not your friends, they are not patriots, they are thugs, thugs working for The Man, who will exploit you, and keep you down, so that he can have his way with our government, and with our money.
Tax the rich, protect the workers.
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