Bushonomics: Cuts in top tax bracket cost US government more than most expensive social programs

[BurtWorm]

Shouldn't be too shocking to anyone paying attention. From an article at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

http://www.cbpp.org/3-19-07tax.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I have not heard that term in a while

thanks, and yep no surprise, their goal is to simply defund the government

[AzDar]

2. Sickening. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

3. Incredibly compassionate conservatism

[PDJane]

4. Fairness and curing social inequities isn't high

on this government's priority list.

Sometime the US public is going to wake up and realize this group have plundered the country's wealth and have moved to places without any reciprocal agreements to return the criminals. Cheney is moving money offshore as we speak, and Bush has that nice little bit of land on the aquifier in Paraguay.

[Faux pas]

5. Mission accomplished-government bankrupt-rich get richer. n/t

[monarch]

6. K & R and the sickening thing about Bush supporters is

that they continue to support the tax cuts to people with obscene wealth while their own taxes (state, local and various governmental fees)go upand up. They just don't understnd the connection. And forget "social programs." In the right wing mind, social programs consist of giving welfare to lazy people who drive Cadillacs. If you ask any of those guys whether they benefit from any governmental progrms, they will tell you absolutely not.

[gollygee]

7. Oh, I'm sure that money will trickle down to the rest of us . . .

:sarcasm:

[galloglas]

9. You sure you want to wait??

Edit for dodgy grammar:

Why don't we just go tax them retroactively and take it all back?

With interest!

[Lasher]

8. Very good resource

I have found that large simple graphics with lots of purty bright colors are useful when trying to communicate truths of the tax cuts to knuckle draggers who still think the trickle down theory was ever anything more than an attempt to find moral justification in taking from the poor to give to the rich.

Here is a 2006 national budget simulation game. It can be used to demonstrate that elimination of the 2001 & 2003 tax cuts, together with the wars in Iraq, result in a balanced budget. It's fun! And it can be effectively used to sweep aside the very best version of the facts that big money can buy at the Heritage Foundation.

In my test case I eliminated the costs of wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, thinking it shouldn't be too hard to find a few footballs made of $100 bills in Iraq once the Bush junta is finally thrown out of power. And I could turn that opulent embassy complex into a Disney theme park. The Saudis would flock to it. Then after I shut down Junior's Maginot Line in the sky that doesn't work, I could fund our share of the legitimate operation in Afghanistan with boatloads of money left over for splurging on unessential frivolities like medical care for wounded soldiers.

Edit: OK I was number 4, we need 1 more.

[ComerPerro]

10. Its not so much about the cost. Its about sincerely not wanting to help others