Death to Taxes!

You know that you have just soundly defeated a Republican in an argument when they resort to the following two backlashes.
1) "Fine! Just get ready to be taxed like no other! I might as well mail my whole wallet to Uncle Sam RIGHT NOW! They can have all of it! I mean! Damn! I earned it but they deserve it!
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2) Well I hope you're ready for a really really really big government then! There will be no stopping them! They'll be so big! We'll have to give them alllllllllll of our money! Why should the rich be punished for being sooooooooo successful? I might as well just send them my wallet right now!


Boom, you know you've won your argument. I learned this the other day when my dad got lost on the fact that the government should increase funding towards programs that help the poor, and again when I argued a friend to the point that super-rich people SHOULD pay more taxes because they are getting too large of a break when compared with the middle class who keeps getting pushed into poverty and debt.

Right away they became angry and upset at the fact that someone (and mind you, it was neither of them or nor will it ever be, I don't care how rich they think they will be someday) would have to pay for social justice and the fact that the government would have to be the one to do it.


Most Republicans think that raising taxes is always a bad thing. That everyone already pays enough taxes and that people should be rewarded for being successful.
However, not everyone pays enough taxes, people like Warren Buffet have come flat out and said that the super rich, like himself, should contribute more to society. This from the man who already gives millions along with his pal Bill Gates to charitable and non-profit organizations. So he is actually living by example. He illustrates the failure of the tax system under the Bush Administration.
In 2001, the Republican philosophy was this: The economy is doing so well, there's no reason to NOT cut taxes, since Bill Clinton had left them a surplus, why not give some of it back to the people? It sounds nice on paper except for the fact that his tax policy then gave more back to the top 1% than it did the rest of the people who paid taxes. Yes, my parents got a nice little rebate check and I'm sure they enjoyed it. We got a new tv and tile in our kitchen and things like that. But Norman B. Richafella across town in Cherry Creek got such a huge tax break, he got a new boat, a new car, a new condo in Hawaii and a whole new kitchen entirely.
The Democrats threw a fit at the thought of this new tax break policy because it didn't take into account what to do if the economy suddenly slowed, which it did. There went our surplus and here came our deficit thanks to a new war on terror.
We are now hugely in debt, our deficit is alarming and something must be done about it, because it is effecting our entire economy. We must tax. We have no choice. You can think George Bush for his lopsided tax breaks for the top 1% and their money consuming industries like big oil and big wal-mart. These industries and millionaires do not and did not need these gigantic tax breaks. it only made their profits higher and perhaps their greed more ferocious. John McCain and Barack Obama will both have to raise taxes, you no longer here John say "No more new taxes, period!" You don't because that was a lie. Barack Obama promises a tax break for 95% of American familes, the problem is, there are a LOT of people in that top 5% who will have their taxes raised.
The difference is whom the tax cuts and raises will benefit and independent tax think tanks from both sides have weighed in, and the middle class will benefit more under Sen. Obama's tax plan, and the rich will benefit more under Sen. McCain's tax plan.

The point is this, taxes must go up, period. That along with a huge slash in government spending (of whom both have not offered to do, again, it's about what the spending will be on, schools and social programs, or military and tax cuts for industries). We have a long way to go, and I encourage you to look at both of their tax policies, because it's going to effect all of us in the long run. You just have to decide who we need to help now, the middle and lower class workers, or the rich and powerful executives who employ them.

We can't go four more years with this lopsided tax break policy, we can't keep going heavily into debt. We can't promise things that we NEED without having the money for them.