Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem
The free-ness isn't the lower tax itself, it's the evasion from paying your fair share for something we're already paying for in some other way (either taxes on somebody else less able to bear them or reduction of somebody else's services or debt).
The greatest "FREE STUFF" campaign in history was Reagan. He promised people they could keep on getting all their goodies but no longer pay for them because by the mythical magic of the market our revenues would rise the lower we pushed tax rates.
Spoiler: that didn't happen. Instead the rich got a tax holiday that has resulted in $18T in debt and counting. We all bear this equally as citizens, in fact, not even so equally since the services that are curtailed with the inevitable spending cuts are disproportionately lost by the poor.
What GOP fiscal policies accomplish is a tremendous redistribution of pain, from the rich to the middle class and the poor. And that is exactly what they were designed to do, which is why they were sold as a package deal with social policies so that rural and suburban whites would cut their own throats to spite blacky.
It worked. I'll give em that.
Originally posted by geezer
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The greatest "FREE STUFF" campaign in history was Reagan. He promised people they could keep on getting all their goodies but no longer pay for them because by the mythical magic of the market our revenues would rise the lower we pushed tax rates.
Spoiler: that didn't happen. Instead the rich got a tax holiday that has resulted in $18T in debt and counting. We all bear this equally as citizens, in fact, not even so equally since the services that are curtailed with the inevitable spending cuts are disproportionately lost by the poor.
What GOP fiscal policies accomplish is a tremendous redistribution of pain, from the rich to the middle class and the poor. And that is exactly what they were designed to do, which is why they were sold as a package deal with social policies so that rural and suburban whites would cut their own throats to spite blacky.
It worked. I'll give em that.
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