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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]MissMillie
(38,557 posts)And I don't say that to insult Hillary.... but there are very few progressives left, and she's not one of them.
Is she qualified to be President? You bet.
Would she be my first pick? Nope.
The fact of the matter is that for some reason the electorate of this country believes that they are being taxed to death, despite the fact that the overall tax burden is at a 60+ year low.
I sat down with a group of thirty-somethings that earn something around $25000/year that kept telling me that they have lived through a tax increase.
Uh..... no.
Their wages have stagnated.
Someone told me the other day that in the 1950s were the big boon for this country. They were right. What they don't realize is that the top marginal tax rate for the top 1% was around 90%.
Which makes for a great sound byte for the left but it's not the whole picture.
The GOP thinks that if you cut taxes on the upper brackets that they will behave in the best interest of the country and reinvest their money here in this country and create jobs.
There is absolutely no evidence to support that theory.
The upper brackets brake up unions, send their money overseas to employ people for less than half of what workers could make here.
PEOPLE act in their OWN best interest.
When the government gets involved there's the issue that whatever we spend the money on has to be voted on by the representatives of the people.