Governors who thought tax cuts for the rich would create trickle-down prosperity are waking up

[guno]

The end of the teabaggers


Conservative U.S. governors who came to power during the 2010 tea party electoral wave are facing a reality check. A few years ago, catering to a far-right constituency, they campaigned on pledges of slashing taxes and bolstering business. Their subsequent policies have benefited the wealthy but failed to bring trickle-down prosperity to their states.

It is the morning after the tea party. Republican governors are waking up to a sluggish job market, stagnant wages, state deficits and impoverished services. The party’s trickle-down ideology is no way to manage a government. And a state cannot be run on tax cuts alone.

Recent headlines are much different than those in 2010: “Republican governors buck party line on raising taxes,” read a recent headline in The New York Times. “Tax increases a much-regretted necessity for Republican governors,” said another in Bloomberg. “Republican governors are flirting with tax hikes,” the Christian Science Monitor noted.

Conservative governors now recognize the need to generate revenue to maintain schools and highways. But they are still not taking responsibility and cleaning up the messes they have created. Rather than reversing tax cuts for the wealthy, many are implementing regressive measures that penalize middle-class taxpayers.

“Of the 10 or so Republican governors who have proposed tax increases, nearly all have called for increases in consumption taxes, which hit the poor and middle class harder than the rich,” The New York Times reported last month. This includes new taxes on gas, e-cigarettes, movie tickets and services such as haircuts.

Tea Party s Voodoo Economic Policy Not Working Al Jazeera America

 

[guno]

In Kansas, Brownback lowered tax rates for top earners by 26 percent. Now the state faces a $334 million budgetdeficit. Kansas’ public services are so emaciated that the State Supreme Court ruled the funding of the school system unconstitutional. Economic growth has stalled and the state’s employment growth currently ranks 34th in the nation.

 

[Sonny Clark]

The end of the teabaggers


Conservative U.S. governors who came to power during the 2010 tea party electoral wave are facing a reality check. A few years ago, catering to a far-right constituency, they campaigned on pledges of slashing taxes and bolstering business. Their subsequent policies have benefited the wealthy but failed to bring trickle-down prosperity to their states.

It is the morning after the tea party. Republican governors are waking up to a sluggish job market, stagnant wages, state deficits and impoverished services. The party’s trickle-down ideology is no way to manage a government. And a state cannot be run on tax cuts alone.

Recent headlines are much different than those in 2010: “Republican governors buck party line on raising taxes,” read a recent headline in The New York Times. “Tax increases a much-regretted necessity for Republican governors,” said another in Bloomberg. “Republican governors are flirting with tax hikes,” the Christian Science Monitor noted.

Conservative governors now recognize the need to generate revenue to maintain schools and highways. But they are still not taking responsibility and cleaning up the messes they have created. Rather than reversing tax cuts for the wealthy, many are implementing regressive measures that penalize middle-class taxpayers.

“Of the 10 or so Republican governors who have proposed tax increases, nearly all have called for increases in consumption taxes, which hit the poor and middle class harder than the rich,” The New York Times reported last month. This includes new taxes on gas, e-cigarettes, movie tickets and services such as haircuts.

Tea Party s Voodoo Economic Policy Not Working Al Jazeera America

Same ol' same ol', different day, same tune. Did anyone really thing that politics would change on its own? Listen folks, politics is a game, just a cruel game played against the citizens and the nation. The only way anything is going to change, is " IF " voters wake up smell the coffee. Campaign rhetoric, empty promises, smooth talking silvered tongue Dr. Feelgood speeches, and playing to the crowd is par for the course. Voters are looked at as merely votes and revenue, nothing more. If you think politicians care about you, or this nation, then you're living in a fairy tale world of make believe, and reality escapes you.

 

[tinydancer]

The end of the teabaggers


Conservative U.S. governors who came to power during the 2010 tea party electoral wave are facing a reality check. A few years ago, catering to a far-right constituency, they campaigned on pledges of slashing taxes and bolstering business. Their subsequent policies have benefited the wealthy but failed to bring trickle-down prosperity to their states.

It is the morning after the tea party. Republican governors are waking up to a sluggish job market, stagnant wages, state deficits and impoverished services. The party’s trickle-down ideology is no way to manage a government. And a state cannot be run on tax cuts alone.

Recent headlines are much different than those in 2010: “Republican governors buck party line on raising taxes,” read a recent headline in The New York Times. “Tax increases a much-regretted necessity for Republican governors,” said another in Bloomberg. “Republican governors are flirting with tax hikes,” the Christian Science Monitor noted.

Conservative governors now recognize the need to generate revenue to maintain schools and highways. But they are still not taking responsibility and cleaning up the messes they have created. Rather than reversing tax cuts for the wealthy, many are implementing regressive measures that penalize middle-class taxpayers.

“Of the 10 or so Republican governors who have proposed tax increases, nearly all have called for increases in consumption taxes, which hit the poor and middle class harder than the rich,” The New York Times reported last month. This includes new taxes on gas, e-cigarettes, movie tickets and services such as haircuts.

Tea Party s Voodoo Economic Policy Not Working Al Jazeera America

Same ol' same ol', different day, same tune. Did anyone really thing that politics would change on its own? Listen folks, politics is a game, just a cruel game played against the citizens and the nation. The only way anything is going to change, is " IF " voters wake up smell the coffee. Campaign rhetoric, empty promises, smooth talking silvered tongue Dr. Feelgood speeches, and playing to the crowd is par for the course. Voters are looked at as merely votes and revenue, nothing more. If you think politicians care about you, or this nation, then you're living in a fairy tale world of make believe, and reality escapes you.

And?

Who doesn't know government sucks? But if you don't get out and vote for the lesser of two evils you really get into deep shit.

I always vote for who is going to do the less damage to me. That's all we can do.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Tea Party s Voodoo Economic Policy Not Working Al Jazeera America

Here is the underlying problem..For the GOP ....

 

[RKMBrown]

The end of the teabaggers


Conservative U.S. governors who came to power during the 2010 tea party electoral wave are facing a reality check. A few years ago, catering to a far-right constituency, they campaigned on pledges of slashing taxes and bolstering business. Their subsequent policies have benefited the wealthy but failed to bring trickle-down prosperity to their states.

It is the morning after the tea party. Republican governors are waking up to a sluggish job market, stagnant wages, state deficits and impoverished services. The party’s trickle-down ideology is no way to manage a government. And a state cannot be run on tax cuts alone.

Recent headlines are much different than those in 2010: “Republican governors buck party line on raising taxes,” read a recent headline in The New York Times. “Tax increases a much-regretted necessity for Republican governors,” said another in Bloomberg. “Republican governors are flirting with tax hikes,” the Christian Science Monitor noted.

Conservative governors now recognize the need to generate revenue to maintain schools and highways. But they are still not taking responsibility and cleaning up the messes they have created. Rather than reversing tax cuts for the wealthy, many are implementing regressive measures that penalize middle-class taxpayers.

“Of the 10 or so Republican governors who have proposed tax increases, nearly all have called for increases in consumption taxes, which hit the poor and middle class harder than the rich,” The New York Times reported last month. This includes new taxes on gas, e-cigarettes, movie tickets and services such as haircuts.

Tea Party s Voodoo Economic Policy Not Working Al Jazeera America

You're a MORON. The POOR got bigger tax cuts YOU STUPID ASSHOLE. The poor pay ZERO TAXES many poor GET CHECKS INSTEAD OF TAXES. What a dumb ass you are. Additionally, THE TAX CUTS THAT THE SO CALLED RICH GOT HAVE EXPIRED YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT.