Since 1980, the Republican Party has been made up of Conservatives and since Bush the First’s term made up of Neoconservatives. In the early 1980s they received a gigantic tax cut, reckless and foolish in the extreme…from a top rate of 74% down to a top rate of 28%. That set off a huge conspiracy [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bush tax cuts'
No Cuts to Social Security
August 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes
Tags: Bush tax cuts·cutting Social Security·marginal tax rates·Neoconservative spending·Social Security·taxes
Greed
May 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, taxes, Wall Street
“The time has come” the walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” –Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” Ah, yes, let’s distract from the abstract. Let’s diffuse, distort, dissemble and dismember our rationality. Let’s [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·deficits·Economics·government spending·income inequality·national debt·Peterson-Pew Commission·reducing the national debt·securing Social Security and Medicare
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
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It’s About Jobs…and the Economy…and How We Got Here!
January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, jobs, Politics
Americans need jobs. Yes, you can say that the Gross National Product has increased a certain amount or fallen back a certain amount. You can say that our exports have risen as a percentage of our Gross National Product. You can say that the index of home values has risen against the year-over-year index. You [...]
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Tax the Rich.
October 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance the budget since before Ronald Reagan. After Ronald Reagan’s cutting the tax rates of the top income brackets by 50% and quadrupling the military budget in the early 1980s, we have [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·tax cuts·taxes