The left really is worked up about the rich needing to have their taxes raised. This is kinda hard to understand, as I don’t really get what benefit they think we’ll get from raising taxes in a bad economy, but I’ve listened carefully to a number of liberals, and here is a transcription of their argument of why we need to raise taxes on the rich:
“I get really worked up about the rich not paying more in taxes because how much they earn affects me because of [unintelligible]. And we really need the tax money; sure, we did a ton of spending without worrying about having revenue to back it up before, but now it’s really important because of [unintelligible]. And I don’t buy the argument or historical evidence that raising taxes will decrease tax revenue by harming the economy since [unintelligible]. There is just no reason to think that taking money away from job creators will harm job growth if you factor in [unintelligible]. In fact, raising taxes on the rich could help the economy by [unintelligible]. Really, the reason I get so worked up about us needing to tax the rich is because once their taxes are raised we all get the awesome prize of [unintelligible].”
I think that covers their whole argument. Did I miss anything?
Hey, know what would raise a lot of tax revenue? Getting everyone jobs.
Me thinks perhaps by allowing these rich to keep 90% or so of their annual Obscene Profits, me and other cave people could reap the benefits when these rich wave their mysterious capitalist wands to “invest” their rich Obscene Profits in the giant economy cave.
Pardon me if me is no think straight. Me is only humble caveman.
Phase 1: Raise taxes on rich
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Balanced Budget!!!
40%+ of this year’s spending is borrowed.
How about we just cut the Federal Government in half ?
But don’t touch our military!
I think that pretty much covers their entire argument, Frank. Oh, and welcome back.
Getting everyone jobs! That’s pretty radical stuff don’t ya think? Look, it’s a lot easier to just tax everyone, tax um ’till they bleed, tax um ’till their hair falls out, tax um till they scream for mercy, tax um ’till everyone’s equally poor! Remember while trickle down wealth doesn’t work, trickle up poverty does….Achmed the dead liberal.
Simply take any news story where Muslims are dancing in the streets because innocent people died and replace “infidel” or “Jew” with “rich” and replace “Muslim” with “democrat”, and it works just the same.
This is what liberals would say…
“There are NO SUCH THINGS as secondary consequences! EVER! If there were going to be any unintended consequences, WE would have uncovered them with OUR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES! Republicans are only trying to SCARE people with all this talk about bad things that will happen!”
Well, errrr, ummmm, that’s what liberals would say if they had any awareness of the concept of unintended consequences.
If liberals can not tax the rich, whose money will they give to the parasites? Who will they be able to control if it is not the poor? Who will vote for them if they do not create class warfare?
You dumb hick hayseed racist republican Conservatives, we want to spend money, therefore we must tax.
/idiot marxist “democrat”
Taxes stimulate growth
/idiot marxist “democrat”
Unemployment stimulates the economy
/idiot marxist “democrat”
FrnakJ must be sent to gitmo for having a vacation
/idiot marxist “democrat”
You missed a lot of stuff, like how the Europeans always have [unintelligible], and we need to reach across the aisle for [unintelligible], and then there’s [unintelligible]. I mean, come on, don’t you pay attention when the left intelligentsia explain all the [unintelligible] to us?
You left out the endorsement of
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING economist Paul Krugman.
How can he be a Nobel laureate and be so wrong about everything?
The only thing that could deflate the value of the phrase
“Nobel Prize Winning” more than Paul Kurgman
is if they gave one to Oba… oh, wait .
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