here is my problem with trump and pence and ryan and all the republicans. and i'm willing to hear and accept the counter-argument and, in fact, want to hear it. because it's in my interest to hear it.
what we see now is a drain of wealth and buying power from every class but the highest of the upper class. wealth is flowing upward and it is flowing upward with a tax rate that is substantially lower when america was "great".
if republicans get what they want that's good for me in the short term, but if you look at what's going on in the other forum they all think triathlon is getting too expensive. they can't do the sport any longer. people are really feeling the pinch. what happens when interest rates to up again? i sure hope everybody's locked into fixed rate mortgages, because even at 4.4 percent unemployment of whatever it is everybody is barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck... except the wealthy.
we know that supply side economics doesn't work and please don't insult my intelligence and try to blow that smoke up my skirt again.
so we have this problem: fairness in the tax code doesn't work. at some point it's 1789 and its paris and we begin to tear hedge fund managers limb from limb. at some point we elect bernie in a landslide because we finally get to that point.
if anybody can tell me how we can lower tax rates for the wealthy to make the tax code fair to them while still staunching the upward suck of wealth out of the hands of 90 percent of americans and into the hands of the top 10 percent, i'm all in!
but i can't see that. hence my problem with the republicans, regardless whether its trump or pence at the top. i just don't see a good end to that trajectory.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
what we see now is a drain of wealth and buying power from every class but the highest of the upper class. wealth is flowing upward and it is flowing upward with a tax rate that is substantially lower when america was "great".
if republicans get what they want that's good for me in the short term, but if you look at what's going on in the other forum they all think triathlon is getting too expensive. they can't do the sport any longer. people are really feeling the pinch. what happens when interest rates to up again? i sure hope everybody's locked into fixed rate mortgages, because even at 4.4 percent unemployment of whatever it is everybody is barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck... except the wealthy.
we know that supply side economics doesn't work and please don't insult my intelligence and try to blow that smoke up my skirt again.
so we have this problem: fairness in the tax code doesn't work. at some point it's 1789 and its paris and we begin to tear hedge fund managers limb from limb. at some point we elect bernie in a landslide because we finally get to that point.
if anybody can tell me how we can lower tax rates for the wealthy to make the tax code fair to them while still staunching the upward suck of wealth out of the hands of 90 percent of americans and into the hands of the top 10 percent, i'm all in!
but i can't see that. hence my problem with the republicans, regardless whether its trump or pence at the top. i just don't see a good end to that trajectory.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman