OPINION: Cutting Taxes Fair and Square
As middle-class Americans struggle to buy groceries, fill up their tanks, and pay their mortgages, right-wing Republicans in Congress want to continue tax giveaways to the rich and powerful.
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats passed President Obama’s plan to cut taxes for 120 million working families. But now House Republicans are planning to block the measure from becoming law unless the Bush tax cuts for the rich are extended, and the wealthiest 2 percent get another tax giveaway they don’t need.
Can you write your member of Congress and let them know you want the rich to pay their fair share?.
When the rich don’t pay their fair share, the rest of us have to pay higher taxes, or forego essential public services like Medicare, Medicaid, safer roads and highways, food stamps for struggling Americans, federal aid to early childhood education programs, Pell Grants, and much more. How do we create jobs, and improve our schools if right-wing Republicans insist on tax giveaways for those who don’t need them?
Our elected representatives need to work for all of us, not just millionaires.
Gene Pinkham
3:28 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
How about including the empirical data from the IRS to support your demagoguery?
howard mcgowan
3:34 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
LOL
howard mcgowan
4:05 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The Internal Revenue Code places three primary obligations on taxpayers: (1) to filetimely returns; (2) to make accurate reports on those returns; and (3) to pay the required tax voluntarily and timely. Our latest projection of the gross tax gap (the amount of tax imposed by law that is not paid voluntarily and timely) was on the order of $275 billion for all income and employment taxes in 1998. This was over 15 percent of the tax due. Of that amount, we estimate that only $50 billion will eventually be collected through enforcement and other late payments. Clearly, it is cruial for IRS to do whatever it can to improve
VOLUNTARY compliance.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to determine the impact that any IRS activity has onvoluntary compliance. That is partly because we cannot observe taxpayers’ true tax liabilities
Maybe if the Corporations and their CEO,]'s brought back the money in tax "havens" and paid their fair taxes instead of looking for another cut in rates it would help the fight to reduce the deficits
The oposition to current administration solutions met with distain but no solutions coming forward
howard mcgowan
4:26 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Sometimes this demagoguery you mention could be stupidity
The Romney campaign is engaging in “situational demagoguery,” a kind of sophisticated messaging that is always shape-shifting, which allows for truly twisted “communications” to move freely through the news cycle and hit its intended target audience. Situational demagoguery cares not about ex post facto refutations coming from corporate media. They can be dismissed as “partisan” or, more commonly, simply ignored.
Antonio
5:24 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Howard don't forget all the millionaire Dems too. Remember Sen Kerry and where he docked his yacht. How about cutting the freeloaders off and getting rid of illegal aliens. That would do wonders for our economy.