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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Of course you care
	Date:	12/21/2012 3:10:04 PM

You want to be able to say that Republicans caused all taxes to go up and your messiah et al proposed an imaginary tax cut by letting them first go up and then proposing to go back to yesterday's tax rates (except for the job creators). That my little left wing nut is the politics of this sorry episode and sadly, it will work.

As for your question, as I often used in my expert witness testimony "asked and answered". I already told you that it is stupid, counterproductive and harmful to the economy to raise taxes on anyone!!! Regardless of how much or how little they make. Why you ask? I know......you didn't ask because you don't care but I am going to try to educate you anyway, despite your invincible ignorance.

1. It does not solve the fiscal situation we have because our problem is one of spending, not revenue.

2. If you took 100% of the income of every single American making over $250K it would not run the government for 4 months.

3. The estimated additional revenues from the tax increases on those making over $250K will not run the federal govt for even one week.

4. The increased spending that Oblamer wants will consume 75% of those expected revenues (which if history is any indicator that estimate is way low).

5. It will further harm the economy because it will take money from small businesses that are s-corporations and provide the vast majority of jobs in this country at a time when you should want them to have as much cash as possible to invest in their businesses and grow jobs (unless of course you hate this country and want it to crash and burn like Europe).

This isn't about fiscal responsibility. This isn't about deficit reduction. This isn't about promoting economic growth. It is about class envy and buying the votes of low-information, economically illiterate voters and satisfying the blood lust of left wing nuts like yourself that resent achievement and economic success.

Note to my conservative friends: I know I am wasting my time with Archie. But maybe someday, sometime, somewhere some leftist reading this forum who has an ounce of intellectual honesty and a smattering of economic literacy might read this and do their own research and find out I am 100% correct and will change their views about taxes. The harder society pushes against us the harder we must push back - Flannery O'Connor