Thread: obama's 2012 campaign

Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham

^ Erm, no. Cutting the loopholes will help, taxing the rich when 50% of the pop don't pay any tax at all and only suck libbie entitlements will not; trash the civil servant chokehold -- like the EPA, the Education board, and other nonsensical departments -- and cut off the SEIU's stranglehold on business and you might get somewhere. Fluke projects will not work. Let Keystone lay the pipeline. Quit scaring businesses with obamacare and other fed rules and taxes. IOW, get the feds the fek out of business.

It is bankrupt and broken fox news talking points like these that are destroying the country. All of this is pure nonsense. To call the EPA and the Department of Education "nonsensical departments" shows just how far out of touch with reality the right has become. The comment made above about the SEIU having a "stranglehold" on business is so far from true that it is a laughable. Furthermore it has been proven time and again that higher taxes DO NOT affect GDP growth what so ever. Put more simply so all of us can understand raising taxes does not slow the economy and this has been reinforced over and over and over again throughout history. Lastly the 50% that doesn't pay taxes are mostly working poor who do pay payroll and sales tax. When it comes to income tax they can ill afford to pay more as they live from paycheck to paycheck as it is.

The post above is another example of the "Alternative reality" that the right lives in today. I think that the truth is that they would like to slash and burn not just government but the country as a whole. They are so obsessed with serving their puppet masters (the rich) that they can not see the forest for the trees.