The Republicans Want to Play. They Just Want Different Rules.
July 24th, 2010
The research for this post took me all over I went to the Daily Kos Wall Street Journal, Recovery.gov, and finally the New York Times. All in a search to find the answer to the question: Do Republicans only care about the rich? In summary of all stops the answer is yes. But the ultra-rich (the upper 1% as the Daily Kos labels it) care about Obama. Let me explain paraphrasing author of Richistan Robert Frank. The rich, who make $1 million to $10 million vote Republican because taxes are a driving issue of who they support. The ultra-rich, who make $10 million to $100 million,vote Democrat because they care about social issues. These include the environment and health-care. So there you have it. Defined by one guy the answer that comes up every two years. Can we put it to rest now and debate the issue of the waste, fraud and abuse of the Stimulus money, the ever increasing unemployment, the fact that the will of the people only count if you are in the handful cherry-picked by Obama to stand behind him while he lies speaks? No? Then let me further illustrate.
The Stimulus Package AKA The Reinvestment Act money that has been spent so far has rewarded Union Bosses, funded ACORN, before they were defunded, (and refunded through Financial Reform), support stupid environmental projects, and pretended to fix roads. Oh and less I forget, caused numerous hours of red tape for some of the simplest of jobs. Which have yet to be started. I also researched what the stimulus package has done for the little guy. You know the generalization used to destroy this great country. “The Stimulus Package increased the number of households to receive tax credits (breaks) to wipe-out Federal Income liabilities.” (NY Times April 13th 2010) That number is 47%. Ok. So 53% of tax payers pay 100% of the taxes. That is the New York Times libs! In fairness they did contend that Federal Income tax is not the only taxes Americans pay, but I want to play by the “get the rich, get ‘em” crowd’s rules.
I also researched tax breaks for the rich. I contend that a decrease in the percentage of taxes paid by the rich is not a tax break it is just not a tax increase. Using the Nancy Pelosi logic “if you let a tax decrease lapse and the taxes return to where it was it is not an increase.” So far am I following the rules? The “breaks” that I found was based on if you were a successful business, used philanthropy to better your community, and can claim a yacht as a second home. Let me extrapolate. The expenses it takes to run a profitable business can be deducted. OK. It won’t come off the bottom line giving the business more opportunity to hire more people to bring in more profits.
I know I know I live in some fantasy-land if allowing the business to become more profitable will translate directly into jobs. It is just more money they can use to light their cigars with and use as bread-crumbs so they won’t get lost. Not anymore of a fantasy-land than the person who said that Unemployment Benefits creates jobs(again Pelosi).
Charitable contributions. I know the greedy corporate fat-cats only do that to hide wealth from the government. However the foundation that gives the most money here in Colorado in Wells Fargo. Hide money or not libs, the money goes to countless charities that need help. The rich also get tax breaks for buying homes that actually appreciate. WOW! How evil of them. And they can claim their yacht as a second home. Yachts can be as small as 25ft, close to a dinghy. Thought I threw the libs a bone on that one didn’t ya? Not a chance.
My point is this, Obama is destroying the country using class-warfare. I am not the first to say it, but attribution is a little tough, he says he is for the little guy, wants to expand unemployment benefits. Because he is contributing to it. He is going to limit your healthcare coverage, give preferential treatment to those who support him, raise your energy bill (necessarily), raise your tax bill, if you pay taxes, make it hard for you to find a job in coal mining, oil and gas, or anything else that isn’t government or Union. All the Republicans wanted was 34 billion cut from the current budget before green-lighting an extension. But because the Democrats are the party of NO. It couldn’t be done.
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