Trackbacked at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:
In four weeks there will be an election in the US. Since 75% of you will sit on your fat butts and worry more about what’s on TV that night, I am only talking to the 25% that actually care about what’s going on in both the US and your home.
Americans say they’re concerned about the economy. OK, then, let’s study the facts that the liberal media never reports.
The reported federal deficit for the fiscal year that ended a week ago was $250 billion. The Republicans have done what they said they would do about the deficit three years ago, and has done it a full three years early, i.e., in half the time predicted. This is no small task, especially considering how much they spent during Bush’s first four years.
Tax receipts have soared by over 35% from $1.78 trillion to $2.41 trillion. Yes, you on the Left cannot seem to grasp this, but cutting taxes on the people actually raise tax revenues and boosts the economy.
Economic growth has averaged an annualized 3.89% during the past 13 quarters since the 2003 Bush tax cuts were passed. This is a record that for all practical purposes matches the best seven years of the Clinton administration, but trails the best seven years of the Reagan-Bush 41 and Kennedy Johnson eras, when more aggressive tax cuts were enacted. So let’s repeat for those of you that were educated in government schools: cutting taxes on the people actually raise tax revenues and boosts the economy.
Over the past 40 years, the U.S. has had three great experiments in tax-cutting, and each one has worked even better than advertised: The Kennedy tax cuts of the 1960s, the Reagan cuts of 1981, and now the Bush tax cuts of 2003. The political tragedy is that the first of those two were bipartisan, while the Bush tax cuts have had little Democratic support.
During the Cold War, Democrats often went out of their way to avoid looking like Socialists. Today all but a few Democrats have shed all pretense of support for free enterprise. They’re here, they’re Marxists, and you get to decide whether they control your money or not.
Democrats love more and higher taxes. They want to let Bush’s tax cuts expire. They want to invent new kinds of taxes, on new categories of Americans. On rich people. On middle class people. On success. On entrepreneurialism. On anything and everything they can get their regulatory hands on.
We need to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and we need to build on those tax cuts. If you have been a disgruntled Republican voter on overspending or immigration, there’s still room to hop back aboard the bandwagon. Taxation is too important an issue to sit this election out. We need to send a message that tax cuts are more than good policy, they are good politics.
It’s time for Republicans to rally on the issue of taxes. Stand up and declare that President Bush’s tax cuts have worked. Stand up and demand that they become permanent, and then some. We need more tax relief, not less. We need to build on our successes. We have the facts on our side. Tax cuts grow the economy. Tax cuts flood the Treasury with revenue. It’s time that we defended low taxes.
According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, Democrats lead Republicans 59% to 36%. That’s the makings of a landslide. Other polls offer no better news for Republicans. CBS/New York Times poll? 49% leaning Democratic versus only 35% Republican. An ABC/Washington Post poll shows much the same – 54% to 41%, with the Democrats in charge.
All the GOP can hope for is that the polls are wrong. After all, most of the polls in 2004 showed John Kerry beating George W. Bush…some by as much as 8 points. In addition, the mainstream media has predicted the downfall of the Republican Congress for 3 consecutive mid-term elections – 2002, 2004 and 2006. We’ll see if they’re right about the last one.
There are more conservatives than liberals out there in America. There are more traditionalists than progressives out there in America. There are more libertarians than socialists out there in America. So if the Democrats take over Congress this election it will be because way too many Conservatives spent Election Tuesday on their fat butts sipping overpriced coffee instead of stepping into a polling booth.
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1 Planck's Constant // Oct 10, 2006 at 9:31 am
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