Democrat = Socialist
July 15th 2008 04:40
In 1970, the highest tax bracket paid 70% of their income in taxes and contributed: 16% of the tax revenue the government received. Today the highest tax bracket contributes 40% of the tax revenue at 35% of their income. The wealthiest 25% of the country pays 90% of the taxes.
WSJ Article with IRS Statistics
So, when Democrats say that the rich are getting the tax breaks and they don't pay their fair share, what are they doing? Lying. Trying to foster class warfare and envy.
Why would they do this? They have learned the lesson of the welfare society: If you can create dependent groups that believe your party is the only one that can keep them alive, you create a voting constituency. To continue to grow this population of people that don't have to show ambition, get an education, take advantage of all the training opportunities, etc, you need more government programs. To have more government programs, you need more tax dollars. They think raising taxes will help them get more tax dollars.
The Dems want universal health care, while continuing to block efforts to allow individuals to shop for health insurance across state lines, severely limiting competition and allowing liberal mandated health insurance "minimum coverage" to push up prices inside the states. Massachusetts of all places just placed a moratorium on price controls and required coverage, letting people pick the plans that fit them and increasing competition. PRICES FELL and more people could afford insurance. The problem for the liberals? Government workers and politicians aren’t making any money or growing their kingdoms, er . . . bureaucracies.
It’s easy to see where the liberals decided to do this. They saw the government officials in the Soviet Union and China and other socialist/communist states with a controlled population near poverty and dependent, while the rich leaders drove around in Mercedes and lived in opulent mansions. I was in the Soviet Union for six weeks, living WITH other Soviets, not as a tourist. If it wasn’t for the black market, many of them would have had nothing. In the six weeks I was there, two men dug a hole one week, filled it in the next, dug it back up the next week, etc., until they had repeated it three times in those six weeks.
I’ve worked in vocational schools where welfare recipients went to satisfy the requirements of the new welfare programs (one thing Clinton did right). A portion of the students vaulted out of their situation and quickly moved into even better than they were trained for. Another portion went into what we trained them for and did OK. Another group dropped back into welfare and poverty. What was the difference between these groups of people? Attitude, desire and motivation. They all did relatively the same on tests. They all did their work and learned. We had to make sure they learned it well enough to get B’s and A’s.
Democrats didn’t want them to succeed. If people in poverty or low incomes pull themselves up, improve their income and maybe even start their own business, they see their taxes going to their old friends and neighbors that miss work on Monday because they were drunk all weekend collect the unemployment insurance they pay into every month. This makes them conservatives, and they don’t vote Democrat because they want to keep more of what they tried so hard to earn.
While working at that vocational school we renovated a new building. I helped with cabling it. Every week the same foreman would show up, but now have workers until Monday afternoon, and they would not be the ones from the week earlier. I asked the foreman how he rose to foreman. “I’m the only one that was showing up on time every day, every week and putting in my time,” he said.
I can’t speak for John McCain, but that’s a conservative value. Provide for people hitting hard times, but encourage and provide a way for people to rise on merit. Don’t make it easy to rest in poverty.
And before you judge me, read this next part closely. I came from poverty. I lived with three brothers and two sisters on welfare and food stamps. I lived in run down apartments while in college and looking back I can see that it would have been easy for me to go quit school, go to work at a mini-mart somewhere and just coast. However, I knew I could do more, should do more and I did. I finished college in four years, got a good starting job, taught myself what I saw would take me up fastest and now I am on the verge of things that are awesome.
Yet, it scares me that the Democrats may control both the Congress and the White House because that means my Social Security tax won’t be capped, an instant 6.75% tax on everything I make over six figures (as a family) and that if the small business I’m helping to build is too successful, those taxes will be too high for me to want to get there. Most small businesses file as individuals, and pay those tax rates. Obama and the dems want to take more of that money that could go to health care for my employees and hiring more employees, and give it to people so they don’t have to work for it.
Here’s the catch: a recent study showed that no matter what the tax rates, the government only collects 19% of Gross Domestic Product. If taxes go up, GDP goes down, tax revenue starts dropping and it evens back out. If taxes go down, GDP goes up and tax revenue rises. The difference: The people have more when taxes are lower.
As a middle class taxpayer I paid only approximately $1500 to the federal government under the current tax rates, less than 3% of my income because of all the middle class deductions. There’s no need for a middle class tax break or to tax the rich more. The rich already pay most of the taxes. What there is a need for is more flexible markets to push down costs through competition, incentives to employers that don’t even have to come in the form of tax breaks, and government hands off. The commodities market is out of date and needs to be dismantled. In the global economy with all the methods of transportation and communication today, the direct distribution of products works great. Look at some of the things like TV’s, which aren’t commodities, that move freely around the world. They get better and less expensive a the same time.
More to come in future blogs, like how illegal immigration means more workers than there are jobs, pushing down wages. If we had fewer workers, competition would increase and so would wages . . . .
Think about it.
WSJ Article with IRS Statistics
So, when Democrats say that the rich are getting the tax breaks and they don't pay their fair share, what are they doing? Lying. Trying to foster class warfare and envy.
Why would they do this? They have learned the lesson of the welfare society: If you can create dependent groups that believe your party is the only one that can keep them alive, you create a voting constituency. To continue to grow this population of people that don't have to show ambition, get an education, take advantage of all the training opportunities, etc, you need more government programs. To have more government programs, you need more tax dollars. They think raising taxes will help them get more tax dollars.
The Dems want universal health care, while continuing to block efforts to allow individuals to shop for health insurance across state lines, severely limiting competition and allowing liberal mandated health insurance "minimum coverage" to push up prices inside the states. Massachusetts of all places just placed a moratorium on price controls and required coverage, letting people pick the plans that fit them and increasing competition. PRICES FELL and more people could afford insurance. The problem for the liberals? Government workers and politicians aren’t making any money or growing their kingdoms, er . . . bureaucracies.
It’s easy to see where the liberals decided to do this. They saw the government officials in the Soviet Union and China and other socialist/communist states with a controlled population near poverty and dependent, while the rich leaders drove around in Mercedes and lived in opulent mansions. I was in the Soviet Union for six weeks, living WITH other Soviets, not as a tourist. If it wasn’t for the black market, many of them would have had nothing. In the six weeks I was there, two men dug a hole one week, filled it in the next, dug it back up the next week, etc., until they had repeated it three times in those six weeks.
I’ve worked in vocational schools where welfare recipients went to satisfy the requirements of the new welfare programs (one thing Clinton did right). A portion of the students vaulted out of their situation and quickly moved into even better than they were trained for. Another portion went into what we trained them for and did OK. Another group dropped back into welfare and poverty. What was the difference between these groups of people? Attitude, desire and motivation. They all did relatively the same on tests. They all did their work and learned. We had to make sure they learned it well enough to get B’s and A’s.
Democrats didn’t want them to succeed. If people in poverty or low incomes pull themselves up, improve their income and maybe even start their own business, they see their taxes going to their old friends and neighbors that miss work on Monday because they were drunk all weekend collect the unemployment insurance they pay into every month. This makes them conservatives, and they don’t vote Democrat because they want to keep more of what they tried so hard to earn.
While working at that vocational school we renovated a new building. I helped with cabling it. Every week the same foreman would show up, but now have workers until Monday afternoon, and they would not be the ones from the week earlier. I asked the foreman how he rose to foreman. “I’m the only one that was showing up on time every day, every week and putting in my time,” he said.
I can’t speak for John McCain, but that’s a conservative value. Provide for people hitting hard times, but encourage and provide a way for people to rise on merit. Don’t make it easy to rest in poverty.
And before you judge me, read this next part closely. I came from poverty. I lived with three brothers and two sisters on welfare and food stamps. I lived in run down apartments while in college and looking back I can see that it would have been easy for me to go quit school, go to work at a mini-mart somewhere and just coast. However, I knew I could do more, should do more and I did. I finished college in four years, got a good starting job, taught myself what I saw would take me up fastest and now I am on the verge of things that are awesome.
Yet, it scares me that the Democrats may control both the Congress and the White House because that means my Social Security tax won’t be capped, an instant 6.75% tax on everything I make over six figures (as a family) and that if the small business I’m helping to build is too successful, those taxes will be too high for me to want to get there. Most small businesses file as individuals, and pay those tax rates. Obama and the dems want to take more of that money that could go to health care for my employees and hiring more employees, and give it to people so they don’t have to work for it.
Here’s the catch: a recent study showed that no matter what the tax rates, the government only collects 19% of Gross Domestic Product. If taxes go up, GDP goes down, tax revenue starts dropping and it evens back out. If taxes go down, GDP goes up and tax revenue rises. The difference: The people have more when taxes are lower.
As a middle class taxpayer I paid only approximately $1500 to the federal government under the current tax rates, less than 3% of my income because of all the middle class deductions. There’s no need for a middle class tax break or to tax the rich more. The rich already pay most of the taxes. What there is a need for is more flexible markets to push down costs through competition, incentives to employers that don’t even have to come in the form of tax breaks, and government hands off. The commodities market is out of date and needs to be dismantled. In the global economy with all the methods of transportation and communication today, the direct distribution of products works great. Look at some of the things like TV’s, which aren’t commodities, that move freely around the world. They get better and less expensive a the same time.
More to come in future blogs, like how illegal immigration means more workers than there are jobs, pushing down wages. If we had fewer workers, competition would increase and so would wages . . . .
Think about it.
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