In the 70s, big business and the wealthy captured the Republican party, and then, eventually, they captured the Democrats ("Blue Dogs"). One of their primary goals was to lower labor costs. They proceeded to ship manufacturing jobs to human-rights-abusing dictatorships in Asia. They effectively cut the working classes out of the loop. They pocketed unprecedented amounts of wealth (while partnering with and thereby making evil countries stronger) - and then they had their own taxes lowered while -- wait for it -- complaining that workers (whose jobs and benefits had been destroyed) didn't pay enough taxes. Brilliant.
(Only a FOX News moron stuck inside the GOP message machine could buy into this)
[PSST: Orwell is rolling over in his grave: In the front of the house the GOP was screaming "Borders, Language, Culture", while in the back of the house they were partnering with Mexico, Communist China, and terrorist petrol states. Please recall Reagan's Amnesty Bill -- the largest amnesty bill ever passed in the united states -- which was done to break organized Labor in California. Reagan -- the father of modern conservatism -- pried open the border to Mexico, while the "Social Conservatives" (who now occupy talk radio and FOX News) fomented a nativist fear of illegals and hatred of communists (the very communists that American capital was partnering with). In the back of the house the GOP destroyed this country's borders in order to give capital greater access to the 3rd world's labor and resources; while in the front of the house they used those very open borders as a political football. How did they do it? Talk Radio and Fox News lied to useful morons. The same GOP hoax happened with oil and terrorism. In the back of the house, the GOP formed deep oil partnerships with Saudi Arabia, Saddam Hussein, the Shaw, the Taliban, and the Mujahideen, while in the front of the house they scared the morons with evil doer rhetoric - the same evil doers who they were doing business with. Brilliant.
The United States has spent 30 years lowering the wages, benefits, and entitlements of working Americans in order to give capital cheaper operating costs and the wealthy lower taxes. As a consequence, wages have been frozen, while solid jobs have been shipped to sweatshops in evil-doer-countries. The GOP's financial platform is just like Reagan's as Governor of California: partner with the evil doers in the back of the house, while fighting evil doers in the front of the house.
Oh yeah, my point. If you want the people who don't pay taxes to contribute, you have to restore their jobs, wages, and benefits. People who work for the country's largest employer -- Walmart -- are living in urban slums. They are part of an underemployed temp workforce which cannot afford routine dental work. [And you think you're gonna get taxes from the toothless hordes?]
The main problem with the GOP "cheap labor revolution" in America is that by lowering wages, they effectively "fired" consumers and taxpayers. If the wealthy make most of the money, they shouldn't be surprised to pay most of the taxes
(But they don't really pay as much taxes as is popularly claimed - and everybody but FOX News viewers knows this)
The average middle class worker pays higher taxes than the wealthy -- who only pay %15 on capital gains.
First you drive down the wages of workers, so they don't have enough money to survive, raise a family, or go to college (like they did during the postwar years when the liberals were in charge and more Americans had upward mobility). Then you give tax breaks to the only people actually making real money.
(and then you complain that poor people -- whose wages and benefits you've cut -- don't pay taxes)
(wow, just wow)
