obamatax the rich President Obama's budget, in nine words, is: "Tax the rich; Spare the poor; Remember the young" "Obama's plan raises taxes on the richest households by $600 billion" http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-obama-budget-tax-the-rich-spare-the-poor-remember-the-young/274848/ i doubt it
Is the GOP really surprised by this? They are the do nothing party. They haven't put forth a single solid suggestion in years now. They aren't doing anything besides obstructing anything and everything while actively trying to sabotage the economy by holding the debt ceiling hostage.
"so you're admitting you don't know what you're talking about" Taxcutter says: You'll have to explain that non sequitur.
obama, the democrat, taxes the rich people; spares the poor people and remembers the young people romney, the republican would most likely have cut taxes on the rich, punished the poor and forgotten the young the gop is the party of corporate america, it certainly isn't the democrats, labor and the poor
More like: "obama, the democrat, taxes the middle class to death; forgets the rich; gives the poor people free stuff and leavesthe young people with huge college debt and menial jobs. romney, the republican would most likely have cut spending, broadened the tax base, and rolled back job-killing regulations the democrats are the party of corporate America - bailing out Wall Street and giving fat contracts to GE"
This is the biggest problem I have with republicans, this belief that cutting spending even more, along with removing even more regulation will solve everything. This isn't 1980 where we were at extremes when it came to taxes, and we weren't in the middle of two wars one of which we had no business getting into in the first place. Bush Jr never planned on how to pay for his sword waving policies, Bush Sr knew what it cost to wage war and wanted to make sure costs were covered so he raised taxes and the bastards in the GOP threw him under the bus. Regulations are not the problem, we've seen unprecedented deregulation which has led to disasters in the markets, and safety of the public, West Texas comes to mind as the most recent. I don't want to live in a China like country where areas are so polluted that the water is totally undrinkable. I also do not appreciate the false hope that Trickle Down economics work, we need to redo tax policy at a minimum and remove all loopholes.
The Non-Whackjob Says: The Dems didn't found their whole party with a core tenet being their anger over bank bailouts. But the weakness and whackjobbery have been made clear. The Tea Party is no different than any other party. Corrupted and filled with people who are willing to justify their own party violating their core values, simply because it's their party doing the wrong. The Non-Whack-Job says: Tax-cutter is owned.
"The Dems didn't found their whole party with a core tenet being their anger over bank bailouts." Taxcutter says: You are right. The Dems founded their whole party with a core tenet slavery.
"show me your source for that" Taxcutter says: The Jefferson administration. Very slavery-friendly. The Party continued those policies for over a half-century. After Reconstruction the Democrats substituted Jim Crow for another eighty years.
Racism was part of the Democratic parties platform until the early 60's http://ashbrook.org/publications/oped-owens-02-racism/ read up about John Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, blacks were never popular with Democrats until they had the right to vote. KKK was a bunch of redneck democrats, ol Bob Byrd was a KKK leader etc etc etc talk about far from the truth you must have had a public education where reinvented history is the norm
no, i'm quite well versed in jeffersonian history so show me a link to a reliable source or it'll be clear that you don't have a clue what you're talking about
i don't think you know what you're talking about owens is a conservative, do you really expect him to characterize democrats favorably? and calhoun wasn't a major player in molding the democratic party, he distrusted democracy and his defense of slavery became defunct do you even have a clue what a 'tenet' is or what 'jeffersonian principles' are? "…few people in human history did more, in the sum total of their lifetimes, to dismantle the institution of slavery than Jefferson. The principle of equality laid down in the Declaration of Independence – what Gordon Wood has called “the most powerful proposition in American history, bar none” – set in motion a chain of events that would lead, in as straight a line as history ever gives us, to emancipation." http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/slavery.PDF 1770 April. "Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance." - Jefferson http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-slavery-and-emancipation
God, see how a little knowledge can lead you down the wrong path. Before the 60s, there were the Southern Conservative Democrats and the rest of the Democratic Party. I didn't like the Southern Democrats back then and I was happy to see them join the Republican after the Civil Rights passed. Politics does make strange bedfellows but I am glad that the racists found a home in the other party.
They were Democrats for over a century and a half. The Dems still celebrate Jefferson and Jackson - both slaveholders and champions of slavery. Democrat racism has simply taken a different hue. They're still racists.
