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Senator Jim DeMint (Teabagger- South Carolina) Proposes Tax INCREASES on Poor
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2011 Dec 19, 7:40am 1,363 views 7 comments
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tatupu70
2011 Dec 20, 4:09am
Aren't you libruhls constantly saying we need to increase taxes to balance the budget? (which never happens, just more debt is accumulated and we have higher budget deficits as a result)
Yes, but liberals are smart enough to realize that you have to raise taxes on people that actually HAVE money.
Just in general, it is absolutely impossible to run a country without raising EVER taxes. Sorry, but it cannot be done. Let's put it this way: Does the cost of a gallon of gas, a loaf of bread, or the cost of a home to stay the SAME forever and ever? Does cost of living to stay the same forever and ever? If the answer is no then the point has already been made. The cost of everything goes up. The cost of government goes up. Even if by some miracle Republicans got their way and everything was cut and they were sitting on fold up chairs in a tent instead of meeting in congress, the cost of running whatever was left would eventually STILL go up, and at one point or another taxes would HAVE to be raised. That is a simple and irrefutable fact.
So the answer is that no- taxes don't have to be raised to balance the budget. They have to be raised accordingly with the overall jump in the cost of running government- no matter how much or how little is cut.
PockyClipsNow
2011 Dec 20, 4:22am
Half the 'poor' in this country are NOT poor but only pay sales taxes due to they do no report income. Construction, small business owners (like landscaping, food truck, etc), selling drugs, turning tricks, etc.
Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq
2011 Dec 20, 4:47am
Half the 'poor' in this country are NOT poor but only pay sales taxes due to they do no report income. Construction, small business owners (like landscaping, food truck, etc), selling drugs, turning tricks, etc.
I agree. It makes perfect sense to raise taxes on the half of the poor that are following the rules. Those bootlickers will get angry and men like me will direct their anger at the poor scofflaws who are exploiting tax loopholes. Terrorists!
Taxes are only supposed to be not paid by the rich.
HousingWatcher
2011 Dec 20, 6:32am
(which never happens, just more debt is accumulated and we have higher budget deficits as a result)
Except for the time Clinton raised taxes and balanced the budget. And except for the time when the top tax rate was 91% under Eisenhower and he balanced the budget.
HousingWatcher
2011 Dec 20, 6:35am
Taxes are for the LITTLE people. How dare the govt. collect a single dime in taxes from the JOB CREATORS.
When Republicans voice opposition to tax increases, they only mean tax increases on the rich and corporations. You didn't actually think they emant poor people, did you???
Sen. DeMint's deficit-cutting plan targets poor
But DeMint, a leading figure in the national tea party movement, says the cuts — including eliminating the earned income-tax credit and child tax credit for Americans who don't earn enough money to owe federal income taxes — are needed.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/19/133530/sen-demints-deficit-cutting-plan.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=news#storylink=cpy
According to His Majesty Grover Norquist, whose pledge Demint signed, eliminating tax credits is a tax INCREASE.
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