Slash and burn the middle class... (unemployment rate, wage, salaries, brainwash)

[sickofnyc]

...in Florida, Rick Scott is slashing things like teachers’ pay and Medicaid assistance to the poor in order to fund corporate tax breaks. Somebody tell Rick Scott that just because he looks like Skeletor doesn’t mean he has to act like him. Scott is proposing billions in corporate tax cuts and spending cuts, in roughly the same amount. He’s turning the state of Florida into a middleman for shuttling the money of the middle class to the rich. Rick Scott said he was going to run Florida like a corporation. What he’s actually doing is running Florida for corporations.
Randi Rhodes

[theunbrainwashed]

Florida has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. Slashing corporate tax rates does thins like make Florida more competitive economically than other states Course that'll sap even more jobs from failed states like Illinois and California

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by sickofnyc

...in Florida, Rick Scott is slashing things like teachers’ pay and Medicaid assistance to the poor in order to fund corporate tax breaks. Somebody tell Rick Scott that just because he looks like Skeletor doesn’t mean he has to act like him. Scott is proposing billions in corporate tax cuts and spending cuts, in roughly the same amount. He’s turning the state of Florida into a middleman for shuttling the money of the middle class to the rich. Rick Scott said he was going to run Florida like a corporation. What he’s actually doing is running Florida for corporations.
Randi Rhodes

You mean he is actually going to shuttle money from hostage taking unions, and give it to the private sector to play with.

Governments don't create wealth that is for sure. They suck it dry.

[malamute]

Aren't we all in this together? Why should the welfare class expect to keep living high on the hog and only the middle class working types must tighten their belts?

It's certainly time for the welfare recipients to do their fair share and cut back also.

[Kirdik]

So cutting the corporate tax is actually slashing and burning the middle class?

[pvs]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

Florida has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. Slashing corporate tax rates does thins like make Florida more competitive economically than other states Course that'll sap even more jobs from failed states like Illinois and California

Who will be left who still have enough income to buy the products/services these corporations offer? I keep hearing how we need the rich and corporations, even though it's pretty much proven that "trickle down" doesn't work?!?! It's going to be a sad day when these corporations wake up and realize their unmitigated greed and gluttony has brought the economy to a permanent halt. They NEED the middle-class at least as much as the middle class needs them ... BOTH GROUPS NEED THE OTHER, and if one of them falls, we are ALL in deep trouble.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Kirdik

So cutting the corporate tax is actually slashing and burning the middle class?

I'd like the OP to explain this to me as well..

Slashing taxes which allows companies to keep more, passing along more money to investors, often times unions, seniors, the middle class in the form of dividends, is actually giving them less..

Slashing taxes allowing companies to expand and to hire more people, reducing the demand on welfare, increasing their income into a livable wage is actually reducing money..

OP.. explain this to me... because it sounds more like this would benefit the middle class...

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by pvs

Who will be left who still have enough income to buy the products/services these corporations offer? I keep hearing how we need the rich and corporations, even though it's pretty much proven that "trickle down" doesn't work?!?! It's going to be a sad day when these corporations wake up and realize their unmitigated greed and gluttony has brought the economy to a permanent halt. They NEED the middle-class at least as much as the middle class needs them ... BOTH GROUPS NEED THE OTHER, and if one of them falls, we are ALL in deep trouble.

Where do you think the company will put their tax savings? Higher salaries, expanding business to hire more, giving more dividends to the investors so they can spend it..

What do you mean who will be left?

[texdav]

Government is hooked o takig more and more of the GDP and having a few pay for the service of the masses. When 69% pay no income tax and 69% pay less than they use i services then its hard to make the case its very many peoples moeny really. The real revoltsis noramal middle class people wantig to stop the borrowing to pay for more and more for thsoe per cenatge while placing the liabilty o them,;then their children and then grand children.Its has reached the unsustainable. It's really government that has taken the middle classes share of profits without much return to pay those per centages living cost.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by Some author that is NOT sickofnyc

...in Florida, Rick Scott is slashing things like teachers’ pay and Medicaid assistance to the poor in order to fund corporate tax breaks. Somebody tell Rick Scott that just because he looks like Skeletor doesn’t mean he has to act like him. Scott is proposing billions in corporate tax cuts and spending cuts, in roughly the same amount. He’s turning the state of Florida into a middleman for shuttling the money of the middle class to the rich. Rick Scott said he was going to run Florida like a corporation. What he’s actually doing is running Florida for corporations.
Randi Rhodes

You really should use quotes when the text is not yours. I really don't like being a back seat moderator but that is one thing that annoys me to no end.