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Worst of all, this is a vision that says even though America can’t afford to invest in education or clean energy; even though we can’t afford to care for seniors and poor children, we can somehow afford more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks for the wealthy. Think about it. In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90% of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1% saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each. And that’s who needs to pay less taxes? They want to give people like me a two hundred thousand dollar tax cut that’s paid for by asking thirty three seniors to each pay six thousand dollars more in health costs? That’s not right, and it’s not going to happen as long as I’m President.
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President Obama
Wow. Our president sounds like Senator Bernie Sanders.
(via pantslessprogressive)(via nefariousnewt)(via randomlancila)
It’s easy to talk. I need to see a little (a lot) more action before I believe again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
(via redcloud) While large companies should pay their taxes, the notion that that tax revenue should provide Americans with their needs is a form of communism, that only builds dependence on the government for our needs. Furthermore, the taxes come from revenues of all of us, not just the wealthy. Our financial crises is not a tax crises, it’s an income problem. Taxes are just derivative. Taxes don’t make a better America, they make a more powerful government. We don’t need a more powerful government, we need a better America, and the way to get that is to make it our selves. Think about it, with all their massive tax revenues has the government provided you with free email? No, Google did. The current government just wants to regulate and control the Internet so they can tax it. That is why our goal should be to get rid of bureaucrats like Obama who have now proven they can not be trusted.(Source: whitehouse.gov, via redcloud)
