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Re: Romney's Budget Fairy Tale 

By: Decomposed in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
Wed, 16 May 12 6:21 PM | 63 view(s)
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re: "Have you heard about how Gov. Walker promised to created 250,000 jobs? Instead he cut taxes for the rich & was the ONLY state to LOSE Jobs."


If that's true, then voters should hold Scott Walker accountable in the next election - as they should with every other politician who is wrecking the economy.

What was the period during which Walker was the only governor to "lose jobs"? Your statement is pretty hard to verify without knowing that.

The thing to remember, clo, is that there aren't very many "rich." Lowering their taxes isn't going to improve the job situation by much unless the action is accompanied with other, across-the-board tax decreases.

My beef with taxes has never been that they need to be lowered for the rich. They need to be lowered for everyone. And not in a token way, either.

We have very little need for government in this country. It is a parasite, a sickness, with a voracious appetite and a desire to grow forever, consuming everything and everyone in its path. Its worst characteristic by far is its tendency to make citizens dependent, removing their ability, desire and confidence to ever become self sufficient. That's why I call it a sickness. The minds of its victims are the first things that go.

The United States became the most successful nation the world had ever seen because it was understood that government had to be MINIMIZED and LIMITED, not maximized. Now that that lesson has been forgotten, we're experiencing a long, downhill slide.

I wish I could say things will get better one day, but I'm afraid the disease we've got is terminal. Our best hopes are to slow it down, delaying the inevitable, or to accelerate the process, hit rock bottom and start anew.

I would actually be better off with the latter... since I'm relatively prepared for it. But it will kill millions of people, so Americans as a whole are going to be better off if the process is slowed. I think that will probably happen, but it means we're in for decades of utter misery.




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Re: Romney's Budget Fairy Tale
By: clo in FFFT
Wed, 16 May 12 5:51 PM 		Msg. 42029 of 65535

Have you heard about how Gov. Walker promised to created 250,000 jobs? Instead he cut taxes for the rich & was the ONLY state to LOSE Jobs.
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Scott Walker – Killing Jobs Saved the State 1 Billion

Created on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 09:01

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Scott Walker’s master plan from the start of his term in office was just that; remove the people’s voice from the workplace, cut billions from education, cut social programs that feed the hungry and care for the ill, while at the same time, cut 2.3 billion in taxes for the wealthy because without them, the rest will die. The sickening statistics cannot be denied:

. 73 percent of school districts in the state reported cutting teachers this year
. The 1,446 teacher position cuts represents a 75 percent increase over similar reductions made last year
. 74 percent of school districts to cut staff, including the largest, exorbitant cuts made to reading, special education, career and technical education teachers
. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau projects that Scott Walker’s tax giveaways to the wealthiest 1% will cost Wisconsin more than $2.3 billion
. To pay for those giveaways, Walker raised taxes on seniors and working families by nearly $70 million. These increases include a $14 million increase by reducing the Homestead Tax Credit, affecting 247,000 homeowners and renters, and a $56.2 million increase on low-wage workers with children as a result of cuts to the Earned Income Tax Credit.
. In addition to raising taxes, Walker’s budget also increased fees by more than $133 million, $106 million of which came in the form of UW System tuition increases, making it harder for working families to afford college.

Something else to keep in mind as you see your family, friends and neighbors struggling to survive under Walkers rule, is that the pain they are feeling today has been mitigated, in part this year thanks to $82.3 million in funds provided by the Obama administration to offset such cuts on the state level: That money will not be available next year.

As for Scott Walker and his lockstep spin team telling Wisconsinites they can look at the bright-side by saying “You lost your job, home and family but the state saved 1 billion dollars”, they can go to hell, we will not be enslaved.

http://www.politiscoop.com/us-politics/wisconsin-politics/1326-scott-walker-killing-jobs-saved-the-state-1-billion.html

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