Comments on: 3 Lies Republicans Tell to Defend Not Raising Taxes on the Wealthy

By: Bill Benzley

Bill Benzley — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:35:50 +0000

I wonder if there is a such thing as too much investment money so that tax increases might actually help- but I am not an economist.

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By: Wuzzi

Wuzzi — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:43:28 +0000

So… we have cut taxes on the rich repeatedly (which was a great way to play into Norquist’s hands, because when we realized it isn’t helping he suddenly began waving around all of his agreements yelling, “can’t increase taxes! can’t increase taxes!” when the ‘increase’ is actually returning to a rate that was what it was when the agreement was signed, not increasing them beyond that agreement (at least)).

Anyhow – we have cut taxes on the rich while being assured we ‘need to’ because ‘it will create more jobs.’ Meanwhile, we see outsourcing to off shore employment whenever possible, downsizing while increasing workloads and threatening remaining employees that if they complain they are next, etc.

So…

Finally, after two decades of watching this lie bear absolutely NO fruit, I finally quit listening to the Republicans. Obviously cutting taxes does not create jobs, or we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in.

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By: DoUCMyG35

DoUCMyG35 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:54:01 +0000

Were you trying to re-state the lies the above article was pointing out?
So, lowering the tax rate would put people to work in the private sector? Please elaborate. There is no historic evidence that supports that claim. And if the low taxes for the wealthy create jobs, why is there not a job explosion right now? The wealthy have been paying the lowest percentage of taxes for years. Are they investing this money in creating jobs to help people get off of welfare? Noooooo, I believe they are furiously funneling all of it into offshore bank accounts and paying lobbyists to keep their “free ride” in place.

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By: sandyshores

sandyshores — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:57:55 +0000

Raising taxes on the wealthy will do no good at all. We don’t have a tax problem we have a spending problem.
Ask yourself what you would do? You are spending more than you make. What is your solution? Cut back on the none nessecities. Can we afford wars? Can we afford solyndra? Can we afford to keep realestate that sits empty? Can we afford to hold back on leasing lands?
All of these things could bring more wealth to our nation than robbing people out of their middle class jobs.
What do we do when people loose their middle class jobs? We have to suport them and that gains us nothing because they cost more than the tax that displaced these once workers in the first place.
It takes 27 tax payers to pay for one government job. It takes one increase to get rid of all of those tax payers. It just seems like bad math.
We are just taxing a hole to china who in fact have lowered their taxes.
Just ask yourself what would happen if you lost ten percent of your income. You would sacrifice something. In the private sector that sacrifice is employees.
We have half of our people collecting government funds today. How many more can we afford?
It is much cheaper to lower the taxes and put the people to work in the private sector than to raise taxes and put them on welfare.
To satisfy the movie stars desire to increase taxes we can increase their tax with a entertainment tax.

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By: Alltherest

Alltherest — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:09:40 +0000

I responded to this article but I don’t see it. Was it removed? If so, why?

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