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Yes, we know, the right-wing equates taxes to run a government with "stealing." There couldn't be a better example that the right has fallen off the deep end and becoming anarchists, than that statement.
I interpret the complaint another way, 'we already swung the progressive income system from a fair one to one that favors the rich. Let's not mess with it now, we'll just cut programs that the poor and middle-class use, because we rich don't take advantage of them.'
I know, lets start taxing drug dealers and see how they like it. Does that bring the thievery any closer to home so you would understand it?
For those who want to insist "they had higher taxes in the 30's" Lets bring back "work for welfare"
Federal Emergency Relief Administration was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Herbert Hoover had created in 1932. The main goal was alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Jobs were more expensive than direct cash payments (called "the dole"), but were psychologically more beneficial to the unemployed, who wanted any sort of job, for self-esteem. The CWA created construction jobs, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges.
The left says we need to improve our infrastructure. So instead demanding more money from the tax payer, instead of giving money away and paying other welfare subsidies make them productive part of society and make them work on the roads and bridges. I can hear the screeching now.
Agreed. Not that hard to do. Also, eliminate a lot of exclusions, which is not so easy to do, but could be done, if there were Legislators willing to do so.
Great point florida.bob, because why would we want to encourage people with money to invest in the American economy?
All that foreign investment would just create a bunch of new jobs the way it did back in the 1980s, and we all know how that turned out.
Sure GDP grew at near double-digit rates while inflation was crushed, but wealthy people made money and that simply isn't fair to people who are too stupid to understand investment by government does more harm than good.
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