Biden Believes Paying More Taxes Patriotic

“…one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism. The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. ”
-freshman Senator Barack Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination for President

Joe, my concern is that poor people don’t employ others. People and companies making more than $250k a year DO hire people, do make our goods, and do determine our wages. Make things more expensive for them, and they’re just gonna pass that expense on to us w fewer hires, more expensive goods, and less raises. Tax cuts for everyone? Sounds great, but if it comes at the expense of taking money from the people that run our economy just so the govt can get more tax revenue to waste like it usually does, then it’s not good. How can making taxing/taking more money from investors, business owners, and corporations help the economy?

What happened to running on the idea of HOPE and the future or the need to CHANGE the way politics are conducted, the call for bi-partisanship, the idea that there are no red states, blue states, just red white and blue states?

So gone, so lost…

so fake

BJ,

If the US didn’t currently have the highest corporate tax rates in the world, what would the manufacturing/business sector of our economy look like?

Second question: When you raise taxes on corporations where do the dollars come from?

Third question: What percentage of total taxes do the top 1% pay? Top 5%? Top 50%?

Fourth question: What percentage of total tax revenues do the lower 50% pay?

Final question: What happens to tax revenue intake when tax rates are decreased?

In order to fund colonial education, individuals taxed themselves.

What fools.

Of course, back then they could pick and choose who benefited. So maybe you’d agree with Joe if the money was benefiting you?

AC

You raise good points and I realize raising taxes on corporations across the board will not solve all of our problems because most of our problems lie in our free trade policies (here’s a great write up about protectionism).
What needs to be done is to rescind tax incentives that send jobs over seas and give the breaks to corporations that create jobs here at home. That is what will broaden the tax base, create wealth for everyone, and keep this country from circling the drain.

If we had elected Pat Buchanan, like I told people to, we wouldn’t be in this mess today.

…and as for your reply to Snead, I’m sure you want the U.S. to have a military and someone to pave the roads. Maybe you’re not a disabled veteran, an elderly indigent, or a handicapped person; but if you were, you might have a different opinion.

…and as for your reply to Snead, I’m sure you want the U.S. to have a military and someone to pave the roads. Maybe you’re not a disabled veteran, an elderly indigent, or a handicapped person; but if you were, you might have a different opinion.

Actually my reply to Snead would be exactly the same without regard to what my situation might be.

My parents and grandparents taught me self sufficiency and self reliance. I am instilling those values in my children as well.

I don’t need the gov’t to provide for me and I certainly won’t count on anyone other than myself, my family, or my church if I were to fall on hard times that exceed what I am already well prepared for.

The role of the US gov’t is very clearly defined in the US Constitution. Anything not specifically enumerated in that document is not Constitutional and is not a place that our dollars should be spent.

The gov’t needs to get out of the way of the American People.

Our society has drifted far away from what our Founding Fathers intended.

Baghdad Joe:

I think like Milton Friedman and I believe protectionism is bad for a country. This article explains why:

DISPELLING THE MYTHS ABOUT GLOBAL ECONOMY

1. Globalization costs jobs.

2. The United States is an island of free trade in a world of protectionism.

3. Americans are hurt by imports.

4. U.S. companies are running away, especially to low-cost areas overseas.

5. American companies doing business overseas take advantage of local people, especially in poor countries. They also pollute their environments.

6. The trade deficit is hurting our economy and we should eliminate it.

7. It’s not fair to run such large trade deficits with China or Japan.

8. Sanctions work. So do export controls.

9. Trade agreements should be used to raise environmental and labor standards around the world.

10. America’s manufacturing base is eroding in the face of unfair global competition.

That’s an impressive array of frequently heard charges and they are polluting our political environment. Worse yet, these widely held myths fly in the face of the facts. I’d like to take up each of them and knock them down.

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE to demystify those myths:

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/759959-1.html

“Because America is ‘broken’ we must take a hammer to her and ‘break’ her some more in order to fix her.” — Democrat idiots
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