WESLEY CLARK, America's Savior?
Wesley Clark is the man. He is the ONLY candidate who is
hell-bent on gutting the IRS and eliminating all of the
loopholes that corrupt corporations feed from. General Clark
wants to create a system where any family who makes $50,000 or
less would not have to pay any income tax, and they would not
even have to file a tax return with the IRS. And for those
who do file, all the taxpayers would have to do is fill out a
three-question form.
General Clark would also repeal the Bush tax cut that only
benefits the top one percent of our population to make up for
the shortfall in taxes his new IRS restructuring would create.
General Clark also plans to slightly increase the taxes on
those who make more than a million a year.
No other democrat, and certainly no republican, is doing
ANYTHING to restructure the IRS. In fact, the
republican-dominated government has added hundreds of pages of
code to the 50,000 page IRS manual in the past three years.
And those additions are loopholes for corporations and the
wealthy to further enrich themselves. The loopholes were put
in our tax code by lobbyists who have most of our
representatives in their pockets. They allow corporations to
have offshore accounts, offshore fake 'home offices', and huge
loopholes for the wealthy. Republicans 'say' they are for
less government but how can that be if they are increasing the
size of the IRS and expanding the size of the tax code that we
all have to adhere to? The word "hypocrites" comes
to mind.
Remember during the 2000 election/selection when
candidate-Bush said "Businesses must be allowed to
regulate themselves!"? It is obvious that Bush and the
GOP would have no problem with having an Enron on every block
in America. After all, Enron "regulated" themselves
and look how many millions of people had their investments
wiped out by corrupt corporate crooks.
Republicans will argue that their "Trickle-Down
Economics" works. Some will say that if you give the
wealthiest Americans more and more tax breaks it will lead to
money "trickling" down to the masses. That is pure
baloney, rancid baloney. 'Trickle-Down Economics' didn't work
under Ronald Reagan and it certainly is not working under
Bush-Duh-Second. Even Bush-Duh-First called Reagan's
'Trickle-Down Economics", "Voo Doo Economics"
when he was running against Reagan for the 1980 republican
presidential nomination. Today's republican version of
"Trickle-Down Economics" should be more aptly named
"Doo Doo Economics" because it reeks of special
interests and corruption.
Republicans have the misconception that the richest Americans
immediately recycle all of their windfall tax breaks back into
the economy. But when the wealthy get additional money they
don't immediately say to themselves "Gee, I am going to
immediately build new factories and hire thousands of
Americans". No, they do just the opposite. They close
down factories, fire American workers, and then send the work
to slave-labor countries. They also merge existing American
companies and fire tens of thousands of workers. The money
they get back in huge tax breaks is not spent on building
businesses in the United States. It is mostly hoarded. That
money doesn't reenter the economy as many would like to
convince you. And it certainly doesn't "Trickle
Down" to the average American.
There is only so much toilet paper, detergent, and food that a
wealthy person needs and buys. Do republicans really believe
that if you give the wealthiest one percent of our country
huge tax breaks that their spending on toilet paper would
skyrocket? Hardly, unless they defecate constantly at the
news of getting a few extra million dollars each year.
The best way to invigorate the economy is to put the money
into the hands of those who would return the money back into
the economy almost as soon as they get it. And that means the
middle class and the poor. The average American drives the
economy, not the extremely wealthy.
Aren't you tired of the massive corruption in our government?
Aren't you tired of feeling victimized every year by the IRS?
Don't you want to put more of your hard-earned wages into
your pockets and less in the government's coffers??? The
time for a change is now. We the citizens of our country have
the power to take back our government and our country from
those who are using our treasury as their personal piggy bank,
while forcing the middle class and the poor to have to pay for
the shortfalls they are creating.
To change the system we need someone in the White House who
cares about the average American, and American families. As
Wesley Clark likes to say, "one party likes to 'talk'
about 'Family Values', but I value families". Mr. Clark
is the only candidate who would make changes that would
benefit the middle class and the poor. Currently, we have no
one in government who is looking after our best interests. We
need to change that. And we have the power to change that, if
only we act.
BTW: Republican propagandists are already trying to tie Wesley
Clark to the Clintons. I suppose the republican party will be
running against Clinton forever. The republican party used
all kinds of references to Clinton during the 2000 election.
And now they are trying to do the same dishonest thing again.
Intelligent voters won't fall for their scheme but the
non-thinking republican party lambs will. It is unfortunate
that they can be led like hogs to slaughter so easily.
Lastly, the republican party must be very afraid of Wesley
Clark if they are trying to link him to the Clintons. That
fear means that they believe that Clark would be the most
formidable candidate against Bush.