Taxes Destroying Middle Class
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Taxes Destroying Middle Class
| Mon, 10-11-2004 - 2:09pm |
Currently over 50% of everything my husband and I earn is paid in taxes: federal and state income, social security, property, gasoline, and sales taxes. John Kerry cannot keep all the promises he has made without raising taxes. The Democrats are determined to "kill the goose that laid the golden egg" - if Kerry wins, they will succeed! John Edwards complains about two America's, but he advocates for government that will result in two America's: the very rich like the Kerrys/Edwards/Kennedys/Hollywood movie stars who have made their fortunes and use tax loopholes to avoid taxes - and the rest of us who will be forced to depend on government programs because we do not have enough money after taxes to save for our own retirment and health plans.

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Are you talking about your total tax bill, federal, social security, medicare, state & local?
Elaine
Since this is personal, I'll tell you my story. My nephew wrecked his bike on an interstate near a Navy base last January. Broke his pelvis, one femur, one arm, both hands, ruptured his blatter, and suffered a major concussion. Since he was on active duty in the Navy at the time and had just done his tour in Iraq, the Navy picked up the tab and the Navy doctors and nurses took care of him. His care, for the last ten months has been exceptional.
But since you worry about your children, tell me, how does Bush plan to pay down the largest defiects in history, so he, and you, won't leave a burden to your children? Let me hear the plan, please.
Health Care, my healthcare co-pays where I work have steadily gone up since I started where I work 7 years ago. I used to pay 3.00 a week. It then went to 5.00. when Bush took office it has gone to 8.00 to 11.00 to 20.00! a pay! I pay 25.00 co-pay for prescriptions! So don't tell me Bush has done ANYTHING to help the Middle -Class! I am 55 years old, I won't be able to do Nursing Assistant job until I am 66 when I could retire and get full benefits. As far as Bush's Dim-wit plan to have small businesses ban together and have one plan, don't hold your breath, you would DIE! The only thing he kept his promice on in his last 4 years was to GET SADDAM and reward the WEALTHY! He truly stinks as a President!
Elaine,
You probably want to check factcheck.org. It has cleared up that lie about the underfunding of NCLB. You'll be surprised by the truths of educational funding under Bush.
Nobel laureate calls for steeper tax cuts in US
Mon Oct 11, 5:21 PM ET Politics - AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Edward Prescott, who picked up the Nobel Prize for Economics, said President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s tax rate cuts were "pretty small" and should have been bigger.
AFP/Royal Swedish Academy of Science-HO/File Photo
"What Bush has done has been not very big, it's pretty small," Prescott told CNBC financial news television.
"Tax rates were not cut enough," he said.
Lower tax rates provided an incentive to work, Prescott said.
Prescott and Norwegian Finn Kydland won the 2004 Nobel Economics Prize for research into the forces behind business cycles.
The American analyst, who is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher at the Federal Reserve (news - web sites) Bank of Minneapolis, said a large tax cut in 1986 had lowered rates while collecting the same revenue.
But "in the early '90s the economy was depressed by the tax increase in '93 by about four percent, and it's right at that level now," Prescott said.
Bush, who is fighting to get re-elected November 2, has cut taxes by about 1.7 trillion dollars during his term.
The US leader accuses his Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites) of favoring tax increases, despite Kerry's promise to cut taxes for everyone earning less than 200,000 dollars a year.
I am concerned, and I am afraid for my children's future. Kerry has a history of moving this country towards socialism which has failed wherever it has been tried.
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Votesmart.org - Show what Kerry's move to socialism is.
As for your children's future. You think it's kosher to pass the debts of today to our children? You support Bush, you support much higher taxes on your children, plus all the nasty interest on the debt that will pile up in the next 10-15 years.
I'll take tax and spend over borrow and spend any day.
that we should all be willing to pay more and then do everything they can to pay less.
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Like help your fellow American? Like Compassionate Conservatism?
As for this substandard care.... It's the same plan that House/Senate members use for themselves and their families.
Plus, it's not required for you to buy into, simply available if your private options/job options fall through.
There's nothing political about insuring EVERY AMERICAN child.
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