Ohio GOP Senate candidate wants to raise taxes on the middle-class

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don't pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

“The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax — and, if you do the math, and 45% to 50% don’t pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it,” Gibbons said.

The comments by Gibbons, a millionaire investment banker from Cleveland, were made in a September episode of “The Landscape” podcast by Crain's Cleveland Business. But they could take on new resonance after Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, introduced a governing plan in February that has divided the party over its call to raise taxes on millions of Americans who don’t earn enough to pay federal income taxes.

Scott, who leads the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, has said that paying even a small tax would give poor people “skin in the game” to boost their interest and involvement in how tax dollars are spent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-gop-senate-hopeful-middle-class-doesn-t-pay-fair-share/ar-AAW16dF

[MacKasey]

1. Taxes are not a game

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Scott should have went to jail for Medicare fraud for the company he ran.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-democratic-party/rick-scott-rick-scott-oversaw-largest-medicare-fra/

[Make7]

2. He has lost the map.

1) Tax cuts for the wealthy trickle down to the lower classes
2) Middle class are now upper middle class and pay more in taxes
3) The people that weren't making enough to pay federal income taxes now are earning enough
    (because of the trickle down of the tax cuts on the wealthy)
4) Tax cuts make everybody richer and raise the government's revenue!

I don't think there is a case that can be made this has ever actually happened in the real world. But it is what Republicans have been selling for many decades. Perhaps they are no longer going to pretend that "tax cuts pay for themselves". Otherwise, tax cuts would be the obvious solution to just about every problem.

Not enough government revenue? TAX CUTS!
Middle class not paying their fair share of federal income taxes? TAX CUTS!
Lower income people not paying any federal income taxes? TAX CUTS!

THEY PAY FOR THEMSELVES!