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Money That's a Mighty Big Dot, Republicans
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:31 PM
I love it when an infographic comes together, especially when it shows how ridiculous the Republican tax cuts for the rich really are. Here's the top of the chart comparing Democrat and Republican tax plans:
And you can find the rest of the chart at the Washington Post. It's kind of mind-blowing. (Via StopBeck on Twitter.)
1
why are the dems even offering a tax-cut plan? just let the fucking thing expire and don't play the GOP's game.
2
Well, considering the Gov just announced 7 percent cutbacks ... all to build a Billionaires Tunnel we don't want and don't need and can't afford ...
Hey, what's a few starving people amongst friends?
I'm sure the foreign firms doing the tunnel work appreciate the bribes.
Hey, what's a few starving people amongst friends?
I'm sure the foreign firms doing the tunnel work appreciate the bribes.
3
But @1 is correct, mind you.
Meanwhile Gibbs is railing at Dems who got him his job for telling him to stop being a pushover for the extremist America-hating Right.
Meanwhile Gibbs is railing at Dems who got him his job for telling him to stop being a pushover for the extremist America-hating Right.
4
Like everything else cultural conservatives advocate, it makes perfect sense once you've bought into the basic postulates. Remember, rich people are good people, because if they weren't good people, they wouldn't work hard and get rich; and prosperity is also proof that Jesus loves you. For these reasons, rich, virtuous people deserve more tax cuts, while poor, lazy, good-for-nothing people should have to pay an equal share even if they can't afford, because it is, after all, their own lazy despicable fault that they're poor.
5
@Will In Seattle
Every time you mention "Billionaires Tunnel" an monkey rapes a frog.
Seriously dude, if we reject the tunnel and build another viaduct, then it goes from Billionaires Tunnel to Billionaires Road. Followed by a Billionaires 520 Bridge, and a Billionaires Light Rail.
Every time you mention "Billionaires Tunnel" an monkey rapes a frog.
Seriously dude, if we reject the tunnel and build another viaduct, then it goes from Billionaires Tunnel to Billionaires Road. Followed by a Billionaires 520 Bridge, and a Billionaires Light Rail.
6
@5 no, not really. We can fully bond either a Rebuilt Viaduct or a Surface Plus Transit option without exceeding state, county, port, or city debt limits.
We can't do that with a Billionaires Tunnel and the resulting citywide tax on all households - as council admitted this week - can run up to $10,000 per household, renter or owner.
We can't do that with a Billionaires Tunnel and the resulting citywide tax on all households - as council admitted this week - can run up to $10,000 per household, renter or owner.
8
Um... I think you posted the wrong section of the chart. The part that's up there shows only one dollar difference between plans for those income levels.
9
Wow...
If I should be so lucky as to be filthy rich, I'd still oppose this bullshit for the sake of those who aren't so lucky.
@7: Amen, my brutha from anotha mutha!
If I should be so lucky as to be filthy rich, I'd still oppose this bullshit for the sake of those who aren't so lucky.
@7: Amen, my brutha from anotha mutha!
11
@1 - Because these cuts were made 10 years ago. If the Dems did not offer a plan, those dots on the charts would represent the hole they just shot into your household budget.
I am a big fan of taxes, or at least many of the things they should secure for us, especially less regressive one's like income tax, but we should be spending our way out of a recession, and then skimming off the top of a humming economy.
@2 - Wrong government.
@Paul - I think the important critique here is that the Republican cuts for the rich are so out of scale, and the Washington Post did not properly compensate, that one can't simply look at the infographic and see that the Democratic plan is better for pretty much everybody.
I am a big fan of taxes, or at least many of the things they should secure for us, especially less regressive one's like income tax, but we should be spending our way out of a recession, and then skimming off the top of a humming economy.
@2 - Wrong government.
@Paul - I think the important critique here is that the Republican cuts for the rich are so out of scale, and the Washington Post did not properly compensate, that one can't simply look at the infographic and see that the Democratic plan is better for pretty much everybody.
18
So basically the Democratic tax cuts are slightly less fiscally irresponsible than the Republican tax cuts?
19
So, what'll it be America? Will the fruits of our economic production be broadly shared, or will they go to only a small elite group of rich people? Will we, as regular people, work to produce stuff for ourselves to enjoy, or slave away to make things for rich people in exchange for barely enough money to get by?
Will we be exploited, or will we be free?
Will we be exploited, or will we be free?
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