Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Sep-13-10 09:46 PM
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Dear repubicans, there is absolutely no sane, valid, defensible reason to . . . . .
. . . . . to maintain any tax cut for people earning over $200K.
We cannot afford this. Even if we could, it has not benefited the greater society in any way, shape, or form.
Period.
Dear Stinky the Moonbat, you have it precisely reversed: there is no sane, defensible reason to raise taxes on anyone, especially in the middle of a recession. Back to Econ 101 for you. The "greater good" of society
is served by the wealthy having more to invest.
But the "greater good" should NOT be the primary focus of tax policy, and recession or not, not only should the Bush tax cuts remain in place in perpetuity, rates should be cut further; they're punitive even as they are. First and foremost, simple, ethical fairness to the population whose wealth it
is should be the overriding, guiding principle for all tax-rate setting by our elected representatives. It is offensive in the extreme to write that "we can't
afford" tax cuts. That is the language of
confiscation, the language that says that the money WE earn with OUR labor or investment is government's to apportion first. That is wrong, unethical, dictatorial, and it's a large part of why the American Revolution was fought.
Fortunately and happily, good fiscal policy happens to coincide with what is right and ethical--and in the case of Dem/liberal tax policy, the reverse is true: bad economics coincides with what is morally wrong and tyrannical.
It is government
overspending that we can't afford.
Period.