Tax our way to prosperity

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Contrary to Republican rhetoric, since Republicans have controlled our budgetary process we've seen a significant decline in spending for health, social services and schools as well as a significant decline in taxing corporations and the super-wealthy.

If the poor, disabled, disenfranchised, children, schools and the middle class are being forced to accept draconian cuts to their programs and services, why aren't we demanding that the corporate/super-wealthy do their fair share?

The corporations and super-wealthy are laughing all the way to the bank.

Their fundamentalist capitalist ideal (which has brought us to the brink of the financial/environmental abyss) proclaims that the unbridled "free market" (except when they get bailed out), tax cuts for the rich and no regulation are the answers to all our problems.

We must have government that regulates and controls the excesses of capitalism and provide the services that capitalism, with its sole value being the profit motive, cannot or should not provide such as schools, fire, police, health care and the safety net for the disadvantaged.

Please call your legislators and tell them that you want to see revenue increases, particularly on the corporations and the super-wealthy, and that you don't want to see our government fail.

Tell them you support tax increases on alcoholic beverages, guns and tobacco products; imposing an oil extraction tax on oil companies; closing the loophole that allows corporations to avoid reassessment of the value of new property they purchase; and increasing the top bracket of the income tax.

There are many other good ideas to raise revenue and balance our budget, but as long as the Republicans stymie the budgetary process because of the two-thirds requirement, we are powerless unless the people speak up.
 
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”

winston churchill
 
We spend more on health care than any other nation in the world. But a poorly regulated, corporate-dominated health care system eliminates choice, erodes care, and inflates administrative costs while boosting profits and CEO compensation.

Health care is the most profitable industry in the nation and it is the most shameless example of unbridled corporate greed in the U.S.A.

In the guise of cost containment, it redistributes resources from sick people and their caregivers to wealthy businessmen and shareholders.

Forty-two million Americans have no health insurance.

Eighty percent of the uninsured are working people and their dependents.

Tying health care coverage to job benefits encourages companies to use part-time and temporary workers to evade providing health care.

Health care is a critical social good that demands collective interests prevail over private gain. We must join Congress and President Obama to call for:

Universal entitlement to comprehensive health care benefits including preventive, curative, rehabilitative and long-term care for all residents of the United States.

Full funding of public health programs performed by the public sector to provide services to vulnerable populations, monitor population disease trends, and to prevent and treat communicable diseases.

Funding for research that serves the public good, not private gain. Academic health centers must have support for their research mission.

Unimpeded access to a full range of family planning and reproductive services for men and women, including the right to terminate a pregnancy.

Strong representation and a decision-making role for health care recipients and health care workers in public planning and oversight bodies.
 
DNC said:
Contrary to Republican rhetoric, since Republicans have controlled our budgetary process we've seen a significant decline in spending for health, social services and schools as well as a significant decline in taxing corporations and the super-wealthy.

If the poor, disabled, disenfranchised, children, schools and the middle class are being forced to accept draconian cuts to their programs and services, why aren't we demanding that the corporate/super-wealthy do their fair share?

The corporations and super-wealthy are laughing all the way to the bank.

Their fundamentalist capitalist ideal (which has brought us to the brink of the financial/environmental abyss) proclaims that the unbridled "free market" (except when they get bailed out), tax cuts for the rich and no regulation are the answers to all our problems.

We must have government that regulates and controls the excesses of capitalism and provide the services that capitalism, with its sole value being the profit motive, cannot or should not provide such as schools, fire, police, health care and the safety net for the disadvantaged.

Please call your legislators and tell them that you want to see revenue increases, particularly on the corporations and the super-wealthy, and that you don't want to see our government fail.

Tell them you support tax increases on alcoholic beverages, guns and tobacco products; imposing an oil extraction tax on oil companies; closing the loophole that allows corporations to avoid reassessment of the value of new property they purchase; and increasing the top bracket of the income tax.

There are many other good ideas to raise revenue and balance our budget, but as long as the Republicans stymie the budgetary process because of the two-thirds requirement, we are powerless unless the people speak up.
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I finally found where DNC is getting all his talking points.

They're from "The Signal"
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/14195/

All the dumbass did, was edit the original that was written by Carole Lutness.
 
The reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term. We need to identify the best practices across the country, learn from the success, and replicate that success elsewhere.
 
Superfreak said:
That is true. How people survive without quality air conditioning is beyond me.
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It is most difficult but, luckily, we are twinned with an Ethiopian village whose children have almost raised enough money, through a sponsored fast, to enable our street to purchase a communal fan.

Happy days are just around the corner. Praise be.
 
TuTu Monroe said:
We don't need it where I live, except maybe several months out of the year, if that much.
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I may only turn on the heat 3 or 4 times during the winter. But my a/c has not shut off since May. lol

But maybe I shouldn't have the thermostat set on 60 degrees during the summer?

:cof1:
 
Yurt said:
so dnc doesn't have an original thought, he has to cut and paste others ideas and try to pass them off as his....

*shocked*
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As a mere troll, if you deploy that much text you have no other option than to cut and paste.
 
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