GuyPinestra
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- Jan 29, 2012
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Yes, let them expire, problem solved. You really think the democrats want them to expire?? All I see is finger pointing in the 'R' direction, yet the 'Ds' had an opportunity to let them expire and they didn't, and they won't let them expire this time either. Is it your position that the dems want them to expire? No action needed?
My position on the Bush tax cuts debate is that this is one giant smoke and mirrors misdirection.
We don't need the Bush tax cuts to expire. We don't need the Bush tax cuts NOT to expire.
We need tax reform. We need to eliminate all tax expenditures. All of them. Every last one. And ban them forevermore.
This solves several problems in one fell swoop.
First, it broadens the tax base to where you can lower tax rates on everyone. If you earn $50K and your neighbor earns $50K, you will both pay the exact same amount of tax. It does not get more fair than that.
And with lower tax rates, we can bring more people into the taxpayer tent. We will have more people with skin in the game.
Second, you can't bribe a Congressman with campaign cash to insert a loophole in the tax code if he isn't allowed to insert a loophole. So there goes your campaign finance problems.
Third, with the field leveled and Congressman unable to solicit bribes, their chances of re-election drop from 97 percent (that really is the current rate of re-election despite 7 or 8 major campaign finance reforms in the past 40 years).
If it becomes easier to defeat an incumbent who is not financed by wealthy people wanting gifts, then the turnover rate rises. So much for the need for term limits.
Tax reform. Not this cut or that cut or this increase or that increase. We are being seriously played by the shitheads on both sides of the aisle who are all desperate to cling onto their power.
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Get out of my HEAD!!