Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Make up your mind GOP, or more B.S. Hypocrisy #politics

In the last couple of weeks a story has begun to develop. The GOP candidates for President have all jumped on the '50% of Americans didn't pay taxes!' bandwagon. And they have been talking endlessly about how this isn't fair, that these people who didn't pay taxes are just free loading etc. In addition there have been rumblings that the House GOP will oppose continuing the tax cut on FICA that was enacted last year. This is a tax cut that is acting as a minor stimulus for low and middle income workers who have a little extra money in their pay checks.

On the flip side you have every major GOP candidate kissing the Pope's/Grover Norquist's ring with their pledges to oppose any raise in taxes. And they have stood steadfast in this philosophy in the face of public opinion, economic sense, and now many major businesses all pointing to and asking for increased revenue for the government.

So my question/statement is: what's to going to be GOP? Are you against all taxes, or just increases on taxes for the wealthy and major corporations? Because your stance right now seems to pretty much look like the later, the only people who should be paying low/no taxes is the wealthy and major corporations, while the poor and middle classes will be asked to foot more of the bill.

And before you get all bent out of shape with the bogus 50% number, that has already been disproved. Those people may not pay much or any Federal Income tax but they pay the majority of the bill for Social Security and Medicare, especially Social Security since there is a cap of roughly 100K that is taxed.  And then even if you want to get all specific about those people not paying Federal income tax isn't the goal of the GOP to reduce taxes?

It all boils down to the fact that the GOP is the political party of the rich and major corporations. It does not represent the poor and middle classes, and it especially does not represent the unemployed. When the immediate, gut level response of the House GOP is to oppose any jobs plan that Obama is going to propose, even before seeing it, it is clear they do not really want unemployment to go down. Because their mistaken belief in the economic confidence fairy is just stupid and dangerous for the overall economy and the majority of Americans.

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