What you said:
- Raise capital gains tax to 25%
- Raise tax on dividends to 25%
- Submit a bill to Congress for a Financial Transactions Tax for every share traded on Wall Street
- Cut the defense budget in half
- Close all the over 800 bases around the world
- End the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and all the countries in Africa
- End all welfare payments to Israel
In one major way, this seems very GOP. Take a good look. What's missing?
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Give up?
If you notice from posts by right wingers on the economy or bringing down the deficit, there is one thing missing again and again.
Building stuff.
Making stuff.
Creating stuff.
Again and again, right wingers try to "lure" business. But they rarely talk about starting a business.
For instance, Republicans love to say business is fleeing California and moving to states like Texas. The TRUTH is, companies with minimum wage jobs move to Texas. Because there are so many uneducated Texas who will work for piss wages.
Companies that rely on innovation, research and development, move to states like California and some Eastern states because they need to be near research and development facilities. I've posted facts on this many, many times. But anti education Republicans don't want to hear it.
What that has to do with what I said, I don't see the connection.
Now I'm not saying don't raise taxes. They have to be targeted. Raising taxes willy nilly can do more harm than good.
I didn't say raising taxes
"willy nilly", I was very specific in the taxes I would raise.
And if you just pull all American bases everywhere and cut funding everywhere all at once, you just invite chaos.
I didn't say closing them
"all at once". Of coarse there would be a phased reduction. And country's that still wanted our base there, we'd keep it there, as long as that country paid for all the operating costs.
As far as the defense budget, when you count all the defense related industries, the amount we pay is over $1 trillion a year. Yeah, I would cut that in half.
It has to be both targeted and phased and well planned out from the beginning. There has to be goals and it needs to be well managed.
Where do you get off saying my goals would not be
"targeted, phased and well managed"?
Facts and data need to be constantly collected and analyzed. And that's another reason GOP economic policies always fail. They don't believe in study, research, education or making corrections.
Again, that has nothing to do with what I said.
So your plans come across as talking points and not serious policy, which would happen with more detail. Really well thought out plans with lost of detail based on study, research, data and analysis always have the greatest chance of success. And that's the "liberal" way.
Whatever you perceive to be (what I listed), is fine with me.