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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (109743)	10/28/2007 12:27:02 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Wayne, the billionaires got a tax cut, the middle class got a cookie. the evil often hides behind the generalities, so let's get more specific here. what dollar value of tax cut did warren buffet get? what dollar value of tax cut did someone making $50k get? not everyone would've given the bank to the ultra rich like bush did. the busheviks tout the lie that tax cuts are always good and beneficial to the economy (they aren't, a 0% tax rate will mean no government...). not everyone does that. what they don't say is, "hey, we will give joe six back $300, but me and my boys, we'll rake in $100 MILLION extra per year. YEEEEHAW! and those idiots will talk about their tax cut, not knowing we are literally minting money for folks who will then turn around and pay me millions to show up and talk stupid in the private sector." personally, i lump the war spending into the budget. it had EVERYTHINg to do with bush' INCOMPETENCY. i don't give free passes for INCOMPETENCY. contrary to some, i also like to hold people accountable for their actions - but we've been down that road before and we never achieved resolution, so this won't be different. cutting spending growth isn't enough. i totally agree that clinton's "balanced budget" was entirely phony. in fact, it was never balanced - even when you include the stock option tax money and the social security money (the latter of which was out and out dishonest). if bush had gotten his way, billionaires whose $100s of millions of annual income came from capital gains would have had their taxes cut more than in half while the mcdonald's worker would've had his taxes cut maybe a few percentage points. is that the style of tax cut you favor? also, can you explain when trickle up economics makes more sense than trickle down economics?