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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (140843)7/14/2010 7:57:38 PM
From: Paul Smith  Read Replies (1) of 542836
 
One way to read the present campaign against public workers is as an entrenched attack on the middle class.

Ummmm,....no.
Taxing the undefined rich at a higher rate will not raise enough money to fix the mess that has been created by promising too much to public workers with low retirement ages and fat pensions combined with job security.

Everybody's taxes will need to go up in combination with spending cuts. The taxes on the undefined rich will go up but the taxes on the middle class will also go up. So the attack on the middle class is actually a government spending attack which shrinks the paychecks of the middle class by increasing their taxes......all to let government "workers" have total job security and benefits that others don't have.

This fantasy that everything can solved by just increasing taxes on the rich is not credible.

Did you read what radical California Republican Willie Brown has concluded? Here is the link-
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