Why Don't Liberals Understand That Lower Taxes Creates More Tax Revenue?
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Liberals have a shallow intellectual level which inhibits their cognitive skills.\n\nEven JFK, the liberals' god of choice, knew that lowering taxes increases revenue.\n\nI should add that lowering taxes, even for just the rich would not really have the detrimental effect on the poor and middle class that the left thinks.  Most of the poor pay little or no taxes anyway.\nAnd the top 10 percent pay more than 62 percent of the federal income taxes (that's those earning $75,000 or more); the top five percent of wage earners ($121,000 or more) pay 55 percent of total income taxes.  This would not change much with tax cuts, especially if the cuts are spread evenly over the taxpaying population, as they were in 2001.  \n\nPut the liberals in charge, and you'll see revenues drop dramatically, inflation go up, and the onset of recession which will actually make the poor suffer--and all due to the silly notion that raising taxes will improve the economy.\n\nI feel I should add that the economic recovery of the 1990s, and the so-called budget "surplus," was the result of liberal smoke and mirrors tactics; there was no real surplus only the appearance of one created by adding the Social Security "surplus" (which was itself largely an illusion) to the budget.  By the time Clinton left office, the weak McRecovery he and his cohorts engineered was beginning to crumble, leading ultimately to the recession of 2001-02--a recession which ended when the Bush tax cuts began to take effect.
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He proposed a reformed tax structure allowing businesses below a certain employee level to claim their income at the private citizen rate vs a corporate rate, thus affording them a higher revenue.  Congress passed this and other tax proposals of his on a limited basis. Now, he is pushing for these tax changes to be made permanent.
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A flat tax requires that everyone pay the same percentage of their income as taxes.  In response to getting better deductions for higher income, those deductions are created in response to those who think that the wealthy should pay more than everyone else for taxes.  Here in California, the wealthy pay 48% in taxes as opposed to the poor who pay nothing because of their tax breaks.  The wealthy are forced to put their money in tax shelters, thus protecting them from paying taxes.  This forces all of the tax burden onto the middle clase as the poor pay nothing and receive all the benefits and the welthy pay nothing and don't have to worry about where their next mortgage payment is coming from.
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When the Democrats are talking about taxing the rich, they are talking about anyone who doesn't make minimun wage. \n\nThey want to tax everyone as much as people will tolerate, then once the government has everyone's money, THEY get to spend it on what THEY think is right. They believe that those people who have worked hard to earn their money should give it to those who haven't.
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Most conservatives agree that smaller government is better.  This means pulling back on things like the government supplied safety nets that are in place, getting rid of redundant offices and staff, and reducing the role that the government plays in everyone's everyday life.  Unfortunately, the majority of Republicans that are in office righ now are NOT conservative.  Liberals support the idea that the government needs to take care of all of us, provide our every need, and control and redistribute wealth to the poorest among us.  Therefore, the government needs to be very large and very expensive.
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Well, they're somewhat less likely to trash your civil liberties or invasively crawl into your private life.  They're more likely to implement tax laws that will balance the budget yet still be reasonable from a business perspective -- no more "welfare for the wealthy".\n\nOn balance, they're all politicians so they're worthy of only minimal trust as such.
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Raises taxes or lowers taxes.
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every time a tax is reduced or elimenated, EVERYONE benifits.  \n\nFor example.  IF a tax for lets say Bill Gates is reduced, and lets say he gets to keep 1 million.  He buys a speedboat, or buys a corvette or two..   The people who made those products have more product to make increasing thier workload and gurenteeing them a job.  They make money.  Maybe not as much as Bill gates did, but they get something out of it.\nStop the social bickering.  Bill gates was snot nosed brat who didnt get a full education.  He made a product and developed it.  Got rich.  Gives lots of people jobs and has done more for the computer market them most people have for anything....\n\nPoint is that the economy is always worked as a trickle down effect.  It is not static at all!
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Probably a term that liberals invented to tax you more.
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"example tax revenue to the government.\nOne who follows a static economic system says if you need more tax revenue you raise taxes.\nOne who follows a Dynamic economic system says you are likely to raise your tax revenue if you lower your tax rate significantly. More money in the pockets of people will create jobs better than Governments ability to create jobs. More jobs create more tax payers which in turn creates a larger tax revenue for the government. "
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Dems understand supply and demand. But they also understand that most Americans are woefully undereducated and willfully ignorant on economics.\n\nThey also understand that they can demagogue an issue, in confederacy with the main-stream media, to paint a false picture of what is going on. This is so they can regain power. They do not care what they have to say, what they have to do, or who they have to harm to get that power.\n\nSo right now their big evil enemy is the oil industry. Oh my God, they are making record profits! Knowledgeable people know that the oil companies are not gouging, not making evil greedy profits. Most of them don't even get 10% return on sales profit margin.\n\nAs for record profits! or prices! Let's look at other records! People are making record wages! paying record taxes! their homes are at record values! bread and milk are at record prices! \n\nAnd the American public (mostly taught by members of the ultra-leftist teachers unions in public schools) are too ignorant to recognize the truth.\n\nThe GOP has been little better on this subject, especially with the President launching an investigation. He knows better. He needed to speak truth against the lies and puffery, instead of conceding to the false political rhetoric of his enemies.
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You need to restate that, " will you sell out your right to vote to a party who believes you are ignorant, as long as they increase your welfare and give you special tax credits even though you don't work."\n\nThat is how the liberals get elected, they promise the welfare vote the sun, the moon and the stars to get their vote, then do what they want to do. go figure.
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Conservatives are pro-business. Conservatives believe in lower taxes for the wealthiest (even if the result is government deficit spending) in the belief that the wealthy will invest that money in the stock market and businesses will hire more people with the additional investment. Conservatives do not believe in environmental regulations that can cause businesses to spend more money to keep pollutants out of the air. Conservatives believe in government regulation of peoples lives (such as abortion and laws against gay people).\n\nLiberals believe in higher taxes for the wealthiest to redistribute the wealth in the form of government services such as welfare for those living in poverty. Until welfare reform in the 1990s, the welfare system in the United States was often abused by those who were not truly needy. Liberals believe in environmental regulation and a cleaner environment, even if businesses have to install equipment to release less pollutants into the atmosphere. Liberals believe in less government interference in peoples personal lives (such as laws allowing abortion and laws protecting people from discrimination).\n\nAlthough most Americans are registered with the Conservative Republican Party or with the Liberal Democratic Party, many Americans do not always vote for the candidate of their party's choosing. These 'cross-over" voters combined with Independent voters result in federal elections that are often decided by slim margins.
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they are actually hurting themselves. If they were smart enough and realize that they are being ripped off by business who pay them below minimum wage then it will be better. The only time they pay taxes is when the go to a store and buy something because they have to pay taxes and they can't escape from that otherwise they don't pay taxes at all. i believe that they are actually focusing on the wrong topic here. The illegals need to be focused on getting business to pay them a fair wage and not below that. We are compensating by pay for their education, health and etc.
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Probably not. The liberals would rather have the homosexual population "kept down", like the blacks, women, and other minorities. This way they can have an excuse to give people money for nothing but being different. Problem with that is, everyone's different, and I shouldn't have to pay for you AND you're difference. Find a way to keep the liberals out of the equation, and you'd have a winning idea. As you pretty much always would.
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Because they're pathetic hypocrites.\n\nDon't forget, they also allow corporate welfare in the form of massive tax breaks. While the rest of us pay and pay and pay. Not fair.
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Just the opposite! President Bush is so concerned for the poor that he accepts criticism for doing the best thing for them. Instead of giving handouts, he cuts taxes to create jobs. Liberals can't understand that handouts create dependance on the government and keep them poor. Wait!!! They probibly do! That's why they don't want lower taxes. If people arn't poor, they won't need liberal politicians. But W knows that if people can work, are given the opportunity to work, and can keep the money they work for, they feel better about themselves and make better citizens. Liberals want to keep people down for their own (politicions) good. Conservatives want to lift them up for their(the people) good and for the good of all society. Not giving handouts doesn't constitute hate. It constitutes respect and confidence in that person's abilities.