Bush tax cuts gave the wealthy their new yacht; and the middleclass

[madmunchie]

a couple of extra family dinners out at Denny's. This should be repeated and repeated whenever *,GOP talks about "taxcuts".

[Wilms]

1. Two Freeper Family Dinners?!?

Please. Don't encourage them.

[Mountainman]

2. Freepers don't see the disconnect. They think someday they will get

the yacht too if they only keep supporting the right. You take a middle income freeper with a couple of kids in Fatback, Mississippi. He thinks that if you give a tax cut to the wealthy guy across town, that wealthy guy will build a yacht factory in Fatback and hire all the unemployed freepers to build the new yachts needed by the wealthy. And in some convoluted way of thinking, the freeper believes he will rise to the top of the management team there by praying every Sunday in church and be able to buy one of the yachts he is building. So the freeper is all for the tax cuts for the rich who he believes are unfairly taxed in the first place.

[madmunchie]

3. Do Freepers have that long of a train of thought?

WOW, I am really surprised! Really though, some of them might get it if we added a sarcastic little laugh at the end of the sentence!

[blondeatlast]

4. That's precuisely why we need to repeat the OP's statement and

expand on it.

The wealthy DON'T PUT THEIR MONEY INTO THE JOB-CREATING ECONOMY, they invest it.

The middle class WILL spend a reasonable tax cut on a new car, appliances, braces, etc.

Guess which socio/financial class drives the economy?

Anyone remember the 1990s? I still do...

[Mythsaje]

8. I've been saying that for years...

The economic theory behind all of that is pure nonsense. WE drive the economy...they just steer it. Like drunk high-schoolers on a joyride, but :shrug: They're the ones behind the wheel...

[itzamirakul]

7. Exactly! And it was this same kind of thinking that caused so

many poor southerners to go to war to perpetuate the practice of holding slaves even though they themselves did not have any. There was always the hope, futile though it might be, that someday, THEY, the poor, would also own property...which slaves were considered to be.

So the poor and the middle class can be counted on to vote against their own best interests as long as they hold the dream of someday being included in the select upper class.

[BeatleBoot]

5. "At Least The War On The Middle Class Is Going Well"

My bumpersticker.

[blondeatlast]

6. I like it, I like it! nt

[leftofthedial]

9. news flash!

those middle class dinners (along with this years' vacation, the kids college tuition and all the home equity) were more than wiped out by the increases in property tax and local and state taxes that were increased to make up for all the federal funding that was lost. Not to mention the enormous declines in public and private services that are no longer funded.

[madmunchie]

10. Duh, this is just a short and "sweet" "talking point" (the things that

seem to win elections)

[leftofthedial]

12. it's a good one

[madmunchie]

14. Thanks! I think we need to keep our points short and sweet,

the more we try to elaborate, the more lost the point gets and the point ends up being totally ignored.

[DocSavage]

11. Here is a news flash

Even if federal taxes were raised to previous levels, do you honestly believe that your poperty taxes are going to go down? The only decreases I ever see in property taxes is after a bond is paid off and property owners are no longer billed for it.

[justgamma]

13. Do the good Pukes

really think that the United States of America should beg Communist China to loan us money to give to Bill Gates and Paris Hilton.
Seems pretty stupid to me.