The powers that be in the Republican party wanted a war, now they can help pay for it. The tax cuts they're enjoying were supposed to be temporary, so let them expire. To ask the poor & middle class to sacrifice their homes, access to healthcare, their social security, clean air and water and a decent wage so that the top 1% can keep an amount of money that wouldn't make a bit of difference in their financial health and well-being.. is depraved IMO.
Reducing tax rates for the wealthy is not going to do one thing to help this economy. They already have an absurd amount of money they aren't spending or using to create jobs. They have bilked us out of billions of dollars and now sip champagne while they laugh at us. They have purchased our democracy and our government now works for the top 1%. The rest of us can go fuck ourselves as far as they're concerned. All they have left to do is reduce wages even more so they can have 300 million slave laborers and cannon fodder for their wars.
This bullshit about "If we don't lower corporate taxes they'll close up shop and move overseas," doesn't convince me of anything other than we are being held hostage by economic terrorists. We're on the brink of a worldwide financial disaster because of corrupt corporations. You're damn right I want loopholes closed and tax cuts to expire for the people behind them. They got us into this mess now they damn well better get us out of it.
Tax rates may be "high" comparatively, but our tax code is so complicated with loop holes and massive deductions that no one is actually paying those percentages. There are certainly countries paying at least as much as we do and some even higher: Denmark, France, Japan... And none of those countries are in TWO WARS that are costing BILLIONS per MONTH.
These fuckers wanted a war to add cash to their already over flowing coffers and now that the bill has come due they don't want to pay. Who made money off the war? Hint: It wasn't the poor or middle class. So why do they have to become homeless or go hungry or not afford healthcare in order to pay for a war they had no choice in?
For instance, instead of letting temporary tax cuts to the wealthy expire or *gasp* cut defence spending, this is what our Republican politicians have done to afford their wars and protect their corporate lobbyists:
Cut funding to Planned Parenthood
Refused funding for high speed train projects that would've created jobs and cleaner mass transit
Refused funding for child abuse prevention
Cut $1 billion in funding to the National Institute of Health
Cut $2 billion in funding to job training programs
Cut funding to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Busted up unions to lower wages on the middle class
Really? Yes, really. They've sacrificed our children, our health and our livelihoods rather than pay a relative pittance in higher taxes.
And it gets better. They want us to believe this whole climate crisis we're headed into is a big hoax being played on us by 98% of the climatology scientists in the world. The problem is, it doesn't matter what a politician thinks or knows personally, all that matters are the biggest donors to his/her campaign. When your big donors are corporations that benefit from shutting down the Environmental Protection Agency then you tell your constiuents that global warming is a farce and we're wasting money trying to make the air breathable and the water drinkable.
Corporations are making RECORD profits and they want us to believe that protecting the environment we need to stay alive will cost them so much money that it will cause them to downsize and cut jobs. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Like what? The guy that dumps the toxic waste in the river? First of all, they're lying - the EPA doesn't destroy jobs, it makes jobs. Secondly, I WANT MY KIDS TO BREATHE CLEAN AIR fucktard!
Fuck you and your de-regulation too. Corporations do NOT do the right thing if they don't have to and it affects the bottom line. Period. They have shareholders to answer to; all that matters is the money. 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution. Pollution from corporations causes birth defects and cancer.
The banking corporations have stolen our money and helped destroy a worldwide economy!
If corporations did the right thing without being "regulated" into doing so then none of this would have happened.
And you know what? You're damn right there is abuse and corruption in some Unions, and abuse of the welfare system.
There are people in my own family that abuse our social programs and it makes me sick, I hate it. It needs to be changed, it needs massive reforms - I'm all for it, let's do it. But we cannot abolish programs that are so desperately needed, especially now. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
And a union guy making a living wage isn't getting rich off his corporate boss, trust me. Most of them are just middle class people trying to make a decent living and take care of their families. When the CEO of a company is making 1000 times the amount of money as his union employees, it's really hard to feel sorry for him.
So yeah, it's time to stop crying about expiring tax cuts for the wealthy and send a message: When your wars are paid for and you get this economical mess cleaned the fuck up we can talk. Until then shut your noise hole and pay your bill.
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