Obama Is Flexible On Highest Tax Rates

[bvar22]

74. Democrats SHOULD be fighting for a return to Eisenhower/Kennedy Tax rates.

Now THAT would be worth fighting for,
and a good Starting Point for a "compromise,"
not some meager 3.5% hike on the Highest Bracket.
That would also Put-the-Bullshit-Sticker on the current "Fiscal Cliff" framing.
We aren't facing a "Fiscal Cliff".
We aren't even facing a small bump.
We ARE facing rampant propaganda being catapulted by BOTH Parties.

After WW2, Republican President Eisenhower set the top rate on the richest Americans at 91%,
and stated that the RICH and the War Profiteers had a Patriotic Duty to help pay down the National debt.

JFK later lowered the top rate to 70% after the War Debt was paid down.

America PROSPERED,
built the largest, wealthiest, and most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the WORLD had ever seen,
small businesses THRIVED,
and some people STILL got RICH!

THAT would be an Easy Sell to the American People who want their America back....
IF our Party would take THAT program On-the-Road,
AND it would scare the JUBUS out of the Republicans.

They would come crawling and begging on their knees for 39.5%.

When viewed from the perspective of the last 1/2 century, today's Democratic Party is Fighting FOR historically LOW Taxes on the RICH,
and will declare VICTORY if the highest rate is set at a historically low 39.5%.

Man..."They" are really GOOD at framing the issue.



[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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