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Originally Posted by 179
Are tax increases okay across the board or should only the wealthy be punished? Is it ok for you to ante up the money for the Dems proposals or should it be paid for on the backs of others?
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More nonsense...
Why do you put this on the shoulder of Dem proposals? President Bush and the Republican Congress have been on a spending bender for most of his Presidency. There are "big government Republicans" just like "big government liberals" just like there are "fiscal conservatives" and "Blue Dog Democrats".
Your continued fixation on liberalisim as the source of an intrusive and excessive government simply isn't founded in reality.
And punishment is a silly rhetorical device. We have a progressive tax system precisely because the middle class doesn't generate the revenue to sustain the government that we
all benefit from. And guess what? Those with wealth have a better ability to use their money to make money off of the improved infrastructure.
Hell, would we even have a Middle Class without the rich paying an oversized percentage of the federal budget? What would the wealthy have done without a growing Middle Class the past century to drive our consumer driven economy and staff the factories that generated such incredible wealth and prosperity?
There's trickle up as well as trickle down. It's not about one idiology being right and the other wrong. That's ignorant.
It's about the right balance...
-spence