This post fails to grasp the real issues Republicans have with some of the left’s ideology.
We all want the same things for our country, but disagree with how to achieve it. Your demonizing people who disagree with you reflects the shallowness of the thought process of some on the left.
You know, if you really thought about what you just said…chastising someone for demonizing people while demonizing people in the very same sentence. Wow. The mental contortions necessary to do that must be impressive. Is there a class on how to do this?
To be honest, I think that on our level, the regular everyday, working lay person, yes. We all want the same things for our country. We want our country to be safe and prosperous for ourselves and for our children and we disagree on how to get there. On that, we’re on the same wavelength.
The question for me is, who benefits the most when you think about these issues in the long term. For example, the Republicans always say, cut taxes for the rich and the economy will boom. Well, taxes were cut for the rich early in Bush’s first administration and I’ve yet to see the economy boom for the working class. Real wages are down and debt is up. Tax cuts is the basis for the economic theory favored by Republicans (got a deficit, cut taxes; got a surplus, cut taxes; an emergency? cut taxes…if the Republicans got their way, there’d eventually be negative taxes), but let’s ask the question, who benefits the most? Working class people who are seeing their wages eroding and jobs disappearing to other countries year after year? I don’t think so. Yet, give the rich more money and they’ll put it in the bank or invest it in the aftermarket (stocks, etc.) so they can make more money. No real economic activity is really created as money is removed from the economy.
The Democrats say raise taxes on upper portions of the rich’s income (increase marginal tax rates) for different reasons, but ones that are also thought of economically. It’s not simply about gaining more revenue, but about keeping the money flowing in the economy. A CEO who knows that he has to pay higher taxes on his income will probably take a smaller paycheck, keeping the money in the corporation for reinvestment. A corporation that knows it has to pay a higher rate and knowing that the market can only bear such and such a price will, instead of taking so much profit, take a smaller profit and use the funds for R&D or more production, producing…JOBS. Everyone benefits under this economic schema.
Unfortunately, the Democratic party has married itself to pro-choice-on-abortion and the Republicans have married themselves to pro-life. It’s something that disturbs me greatly because I actually, honestly believe that we prosper more economically when our tax policies are more Democratic than Republican, but I’m forced to vote against my own economic interest because the Republicans flog “pro-life.”
