Taxes went up earlier this year, and, in regards to the rich, that was a good thing. I'm attaching a link to an opinion piece I agree with.
Robert Creamer: The Biggest Republican Lie -- 'America Is Broke'
For me the single most important fact is that when the economy was teetering in 2007 the rich got bailed out. I appreciate the logic that that also helped everyone else, but I also think it will help everyone else if the rich get taxed to pay down the government debt that has ballooned in the past decade - from cutting their tax rates, from declaring war without raising taxes, and from keeping other people employed and fed when millions of jobs were ground to dust.
Paying down the debt will reduce the money wasted on interest payments and relax people's anxieties about the government's long-term productive investments: green energy, smart power grids, free WiFi at schools, digital books for kids, re-pave roads, re-open closed state parks, more scholastic scholarships and scientific research.
Now people fear corruption and waste, and I support rooting this out. But there are many more ways to do this:
Shaping the Millennium: Federal Budget Cut Suggestions
And when we're not in any wars and we're not in debt, I think reducing taxes again would be reasonable.
Robert Creamer: The Biggest Republican Lie -- 'America Is Broke'
For me the single most important fact is that when the economy was teetering in 2007 the rich got bailed out. I appreciate the logic that that also helped everyone else, but I also think it will help everyone else if the rich get taxed to pay down the government debt that has ballooned in the past decade - from cutting their tax rates, from declaring war without raising taxes, and from keeping other people employed and fed when millions of jobs were ground to dust.
Paying down the debt will reduce the money wasted on interest payments and relax people's anxieties about the government's long-term productive investments: green energy, smart power grids, free WiFi at schools, digital books for kids, re-pave roads, re-open closed state parks, more scholastic scholarships and scientific research.
Now people fear corruption and waste, and I support rooting this out. But there are many more ways to do this:
Shaping the Millennium: Federal Budget Cut Suggestions
And when we're not in any wars and we're not in debt, I think reducing taxes again would be reasonable.
