America is clearly overburdened with morons. They are a loud, uneducated group of people who live by one slogan: Taxes Are Bad. No matter the situation, taxes are bad, because government is bad. They’ve now gone as far as to start two glorious wars and combined them with some juicy tax cuts, because, if you are going to spend over a trillion dollars, by all means don’t pay for it. They’ve ruined our country with fiscal irresponsibility and they’d like to fix that – with tax cuts. They created a mythological character named Reagan and now they would very much like to follow him to the bottom of the sea. The only problem is, they are going to take the rest of us with them.

The tax-cut-only-Republicans are no different than crazy religious parents who don’t take their kids to the hospital because they believe in prayer. Much like those kids, our country is dying. Taxes are how we pay for this crazy thing called society. With an endless stream of tax cuts, we end up with what we have now: Schools in shocking disrepair, fewer teachers, bridges, roads and highways falling apart, horrible traffic congestion, sicker people, more crime, oh, and enormous debt, which handicaps the government’s ability to deal with recessions and depressions.

But, the government can’t do anything right, so we have to cut taxes. All one has to do is look at the amazing success of Wall Street over the past year to see how brilliant of a statement this is. Or the shocking disaster of privatizing the Iraq War, where private companies turn so many things into colossal piles of shit, at a far higher cost than if the government had done the work. Yes, private companies are the way to success and government is the way to failure. Lewis Black said it best.



Yeah. It’s people. Turns out mistakes can and will be made, whether it is government or private companies. Who would have thought? I’m actually super pleased with our socialized fire departments. Back in the day, they were private companies, but now they are paid for by the government. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out why. Our crazy, hippy highway system was fucking sweet when the government made it. After years of starving it to death, it has lost a bit of its luster, but still, not bad. Taxes promote general welfare, which is, you know, kind of a good thing.

What are you five? Yes, everybody fucks up sometimes. The fact that you can't see the good the government has done is absolutely pathetic. If your kid makes a mistake, why don’t you take him out in the backyard and kill him with a shovel? I mean, he made a mistake, after all. By all means, don’t attempt to fix the situation. Don’t show him a different way. The idea that the government always screws up is such juvenile and pathetic thinking it is astounding, as is the idea it is not repairable. Completely fucking astounding. You have the analytic ability of a hamster.

More than anything, it’s the rigidity of the position. Saying tax cuts is always the way to go is nothing short of cult like. Always saying government needs to be smaller is childish. Government needs to be more efficient, which has nothing to do with size. Everything needs to be more efficient. We should always be looking for ways to streamline. Unfortunately, we usually don’t notice something is wrong until there is a problem – you know, because we are human beings. We certainly didn’t notice our awesome, kick ass, private mortgage industry was giving home loans to hobos until it was too late. (And if you blame the housing meltdown solely on Freddie and Fanny, you are unread and, really, very stupid).

The Reagan trickle down tax cut policy is now believed to be a sound economic policy by too many people. It is a sham, a fool’s game, a myth and extremely irresponsible. The wasteland that is California is the future of America. And yet, the idea of tax cuts being a healing elixir is believed by so many that Democrats now tout their tax cut prowess. That’s why we’re doomed. People have bought into the idea of “small government," but when asked about individual programs provided by the government, they love them. It’s a broad and stupid argument that has won and will lead to our doom. There is no one-way to do things, there are many. Once you come to believe there is only one way, like the Republican hoard, you are pretty much doomed. I find it baffling that so many hold such ignorant beliefs with such religious veracity. I look around and I just don’t know what’s happening, only that it spells ruin.

Oh, and Reagan raised taxes three times, you clown fuckers.


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Obama is going with tax cuts. Well, that didn’t take long. Obama’s already working his compromise promise –– except right now compromise on the economy could send us spiraling into a depression, if we aren’t already there. Remember all those tax cuts under Bush? Didn’t everything turn out awesome? Did you spend, spend, spend your six hundred dollars last year? Cram that shit back into the economy and get it rolling again? How did that go? Now Obama’s going to compromise on his stimulus package and instead of spending 100% on infrastructure, he’s going to give 40% back in tax cuts. That leaves 60% for infrastructure. Fail.

I know, Obama promised we’d get tax cuts. And that’s fine –– just not at the expense of public investment stimulus plan. We need to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs now. Actually, yesterday. We need to invest in our infrastructure immediately. Compromising with the ideologically driven Republicans who got us into this mess is not the way to go. Compromising to the tune of 40% is just plain moronic.

We are sitting on the edge of a cliff right now. We need to go with what will give us the biggest bang for our buck and it turns out infrastructure spending is top o’the list.



Hey, look at that. Oh, and that chart was created by Mark Zandi, a Republican.

Obama wants to get 80 Senators on board for his stimulus plan. 80. That’s beyond compromise, especially when you control the Senate by a wide margin. This is half-assed leadership. This is weak leadership. This is not impressive.

Well, thank God. I mean, they got us here, so let’s keep doing what they want. This 40% plan is BEFORE Obama has worked with the Republicans. He is going in offering 40%. Has anyone seen the Republicans operate over the past 20 years? Anyone? Usually one would start out low and negotiate from there. I expect this to end up with around 99% tax cuts, based on Democratic spinelessness. It’s exactly what we can’t afford right now.

So, that’s not good. Not good at all. We need jobs. Tax cuts to businesses trying to survive aren’t going to produce jobs. It may keep some more people employed, but it won’t create new jobs. Not in this economy. Giving businesses money to rebuild the infrastructure would create new jobs. But, no, let’s go with more discredited, obviously wrong, eternally failing, supply side economics.

The Bush economy, with these types of tax cuts created a 26% increase in Americans living in “extreme poverty.”

Twenty-six fucking percent. So, by all means, more of the same.

Giving money to people without pricing power is useless. The middle class and upper class are holding onto their money right now. They will do the same with the bullshit $500 dollar check they get. But they are only $140 million of the tax cut, the rest goes to businesses. Businesses aren’t going to create new jobs if there isn’t any demand for their fucking products. What retard actually believes that is going to happen?

Anyone notice what went down when we gave billions to the banking industry over the past few months? They laid people off and bought up competitors –– then laid off those employees. Wow, what an enormous success.

God forbid we actually use the stimulus money to rebuild our country. Hey, how about we increase our Internet speeds so we aren’t 10 times slower than everyone else in the world? How about some high-speed trains? How about more subways and light rails in cities? Anyone notice traffic is bad? That kind of effects business a bit. How about we do something about the nations electrical grid? Our country needs a massive overhaul and now is the time to do it. And guess what? We can actually put people back to work at the same time.

Or we can just hand people a check and keep doing exactly what we did to get us here. We can ignore the fact that our economy hasn’t been working for quite some time for the vast majority of Americans. We can ignore the fact that the FIRE economy is pretty much a massive failure and avoid the inevitable: A complete and total restructuring of our economy. We can keep giving away tax cuts, so people will spend money the same way they have been and keep going down this dark road of doom.

We’ve basically tax cutted ourselves into a depression, so why stop now. We’re not getting any return on our tax cuts and haven’t been for quite some time. Obama calling for 40% of his stimulus plan is a disaster.

The new boss is giving in to the pathetic old boss.


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