The Tax Cuts Hologram

    

      I am pretty certain that we’ve all heard the following: “Cutting taxes will create jobs.” Cutting taxes will save the future for our children.” ”Cutting taxes will help small businesses, which create most of the jobs in the United States, to grow and expand.” ”Raising taxes isn’t the answer, because the tax dollars the government will receive from raising taxes isn’t enough to offset government spending, which continues to increasingly spiral out of control.” Although there are other similar perspective, these are these are the main views we perceive when we observe this hologram from “the right.”

     Here are some other views that should be observed when you this hologram: 1. Twenty-six states in the United States have republican governors. Most of them – especially the ones that were elected in the 2010 mid-term election, (like Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin), cut corporate taxes; implemented lucrative corporate incentives to encourage businesses to move to their states; and deregulated environmental, social, and gender policies to promote small business expansion and empowerment. 2. Most of these republican governors cut entitlements, education, and public oversight (or the regulatory agencies charged with enforcing health, safety, and environmental standards.) 3. These republican governors weakened or decimated workers’ unions. Several successful made their states “right to work states,” which essentially means that workers are without the right to bargain for decent wages, appropriate pay raises, and adequate health and retirement benefits.

     It is interesting to note that the states in the United States with the biggest gap between rich Americans and poor Americans are these republican states. They are also the states with the largest numbers of Americans living below the poverty line and biggest numbers of middle class workers whose real wages have declined. In these states the middle classes are getting smaller, growing numbers of them – including those living in the suburbs – are collecting Food Stamps, and all indications are things are going to get worse, under the current republican state and national policy, which cut corporate taxes, cut wages, cut workers’ benefits, cut entitlements, and everything else that could help to raise the standard of living for all Americans – especially the middle class.

     During the presidential debates, Mitt Romney told us about the plight of the middle class I described in the previous paragraph. He failed, however, to mention that the problem is most prevalent in the states governed by republicans – the states that cut taxes and implemented the plan he proposed.

     I think that I have a better plan: Let’s make it our goal to ensure that 26 republican governors are fired from their jobs in 2014!!!

Apparently they do not understand that “greed” isn’t a sound economic policy!!!!

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James A. Porter