…How many people in the middle and lower classes write paychecks?
If you want jobs to be created you need to make the cuts for the people who PAY employees.
The problem with democrats is they use the tax code as a punitive measure, not to raise revenue but to “get” people they don’t like. That’s not tax policy that self-righteousness.
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The important thing for “progressives” is to “feel good about themselves.” The Road to Hell is paved with their good intentions.
…but at least that road has a “paid for by Obama stimulus” signs.
Politicians have successfully reframed the taxation question for the last century. All arguments from both sides generally strive for the greatest possible federal revenue, while mitigating the effects on the economy. They differ only in methodology (low vs. high tax rates, differing types of taxes, etc.). This framing is un-American.
Federal taxes are only intended to pay for costs incurred while performing enumerated powers.
These costs basically are: national defense, regulating and enhancing interstate and foreign commerce, limited transportation infrastructure, supporting day-to-day functions of federal government (all three branches), diplomacy, conducting the census, promoting progress of science and art, enforcing immigration, city management for Washington DC, enforcing federal law . . . and PAYING FEDERAL DEBT. These costs are pretty simple to identify – they are clearly identified within the US Constitution.
Conservatives need to break from arguing maximizing revenues through tax cuts. Instead, conservatives should be framing federal taxation as necessary only to meet limited requirements to fulfill constitutional obligations.
Of course, that would entail the de-funding of all federal entitlement programs, subsidies, etc. The states will then need to determine what they wish to fund, and in return will be held more directly accountable by their electorate.
Sort of like our founding fathers intended in the first place.