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Another eye opening and extremely informative article from Rolling Stone. Long, but a must read...unless of course you are one of the group that delights in remaining in the dark...where ignorance and denial are bliss.
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent
Quote:
Today's Republican Party may revere Reagan as the patron saint of low taxation. But the party of Reagan – which understood that higher taxes on the rich are sometimes required to cure ruinous deficits – is dead and gone. Instead, the modern GOP has undergone a radical transformation, reorganizing itself around a grotesque proposition: that the wealthy should grow wealthier still, whatever the consequences for the rest of us.
The GOP's frenzied handouts to the rich during the Bush era coincided with the weakest economic expansion since World War II – and the only one in modern American history in which the wages of working families actually fell and poverty increased. And what little expansion there was under Bush culminated in the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression. "The wreckage was left by Dick Cheney, Grover Norquist and the gang," says Chafee. "This was their doing."
The GOP became the party of the rich through lies of the left. It is also a lie that the Democrats are more charitable.
We now have proof that the GOP/conservatives are the more charitable party. We have video proof of the GOP trying to reign-in executive bonuses in a Congressional hearing. We were treated in a very ugly manner by the Dems in that hearing.
Have you seen it, yet?
PS, Democrats now control the wealthiest congressional districts...oops...
Another eye opening and extremely informative article from Rolling Stone. Long, but a must read...unless of course you are one of the group that delights in remaining in the dark...where ignorance and denial are bliss.
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent
Please provide an accurate list of poor, high level, Democrat politicians to further support your utterly asinine partisan claims.
Thanks in advance.
I keep hoping the terminally brainwashed will at some point wake up and realize both mainstream parties suck but the multitude of threads extolling the superiority of one utterly corrupt party over another are rapidly convincing me my hopes are foolish.
Wake up and get a clue. The bulk of politicians, regardless of party, are parasites that feed off the gullibility of the useful idiots that keep electing them to office.
Last edited by outbacknv; 02-02-2012 at 09:48 PM..
I'm trying to understand why people start threads that state the obvious. It would be like a republican starting a thread that said 90% of blacks are going to vote for obama. The GOP is for the rich. Who doesn't know that already?
I'm trying to understand why people start threads that state the obvious. It would be like a republican starting a thread that said 90% of blacks are going to vote for obama. The GOP is for the rich. Who doesn't know that already?
Especially when the topic is from Rolling Stone, one of the top progressive liberal rags in America.
The OP is known for starting progressive liberal threads that state the obvious.
I wonder why it's eye opening considering these type of threads are started at least 6 times every day either by rabid socialist elitists, progressive liberals or right wing conservatives.
I read the article, even if nobody else bothered. It's an excellent piece, and rightly points out the tax increases of both Reagan and Bush '41...back when there was some sanity on the right. It never ceases to amaze me that people will defend the right of Paris Hilton to maintain her lifestyle, while cutting their own throats...and those of their descendants.
I read the article, even if nobody else bothered. It's an excellent piece, and rightly points out the tax increases of both Reagan and Bush '41...back when there was some sanity on the right. It never ceases to amaze me that people will defend the right of Paris Hilton to maintain her lifestyle, while cutting their own throats...and those of their descendants.
It was partisan drivel that attempted little more than placing the sole blame for tax increases on the party opposed by it's author.
Democrats have by no stretch of the imagination done anything to reduce the fleecing of taxpayers.
It was partisan drivel that attempted little more than placing the sole blame for tax increases on the party opposed by it's author.
Democrats have by no stretch of the imagination done anything to reduce the fleecing of taxpayers.
Then you missed the parts that discussed Reagan raising taxes, why Bush '41 ultimately was forced to increase taxes, and the many quotes from former staffers of Reagan's who totally disapprove of the Bush '43 economic policies. Reagan knew that taxes on the wealthy had to be raised:
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The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for the rich. "We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," he thunders to a crowd in Georgia. Such tax loopholes, he adds, "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary – and that's crazy."
Preacherlike, the president draws the crowd into a call-and-response. "Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver," he demands, "or less?"
The crowd, sounding every bit like the protesters from Occupy Wall Street, roars back: "MORE!"
The year was 1985. The president was Ronald Wilson Reagan. [end quote]
That's how the article begins. Can't believe it was overlooked.
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