Showing posts with label wealthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealthy. Show all posts

REPEAL AND REPLACE tRUMP's "Tax Cut For The Rich Law." It has FAILED to Collect Enough Taxes to Fund The Government's Spending...

Increasing the National Debt... to be Repaid by Your Children and Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren unto the 7th Generation. He's an Economic Disaster of Biblical Proportions. Like a Plague of Locusts or the Nile River turning to Blood... 

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Vast Increase in Homelessness Caused by Trump-0-Nomics.

Headline: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. 


For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax rate — spanning federal, state and local taxes — than any other income group, according to newly released data. For middle-class and poor families, the picture is different. They now pay more in payroll taxes (which finance Medicare and Social Security) than in the past. The American economy just doesn’t function very well when tax rates on the rich are low and inequality is sky high. It was true in the lead-up to the Great Depression, and it’s been true recently. Which means that raising high-end taxes isn’t about punishing the rich (who, by the way, will still be rich). It’s about creating an economy that works better for the vast majority of Americans.

MEME - gvan42 - Trump's Tent City - Vast Increase in Homelessness Caused by Trump-0-Nomics  - Gregory Vanderlaan
Trump-0-Nomics: Amazon Pays No Taxes.
People Live in Tents.

In their book, Saez and Zucman sketch out a modern progressive tax code. The overall tax rate on the richest 1 percent would roughly double, to about 60 percent. The tax increases would bring in about $750 billion a year, or 4 percent of G.D.P., enough to pay for universal pre-K, an infrastructure program, medical research, clean energy and more. Those are the kinds of policies that do lift economic growth.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Elizabeth Warren Has GREAT IDEAS... Tax the Super Rich! Use that Money to Pay for Useful Things... Like Childcare and Food... Go visit her website to learn more! elizabethwarren.com

 https://elizabethwarren.com/ 

END WASHINGTON CORRUPTION
Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected, but it isn’t working for anyone else. Companies and wealthy individuals spend billions every year to influence Congress and federal agencies to put their interests ahead of the public interest. This is deliberate, and we need to call this what it is—corruption, plain and simple. That’s why Elizabeth has proposed the most ambitious set of anti-corruption reforms since Watergate to fundamentally change the way Washington does business.

REBUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS
After decades of largely flat wages and exploding household costs, millions of families can barely breathe. For generations, people of color have been shut out of their chance to build wealth. It’s time for big, structural changes to put economic power back in the hands of the American people.

STRENGTHEN OUR DEMOCRACY
Our democracy faces serious threats at home and abroad. Strengthening it will require dramatic changes. That starts with a constitutional amendment to protect the right of every American citizen to vote and to have that vote counted. But it’s just the beginning.

EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
Four words are etched above the Supreme Court: Equal Justice Under Law. That’s supposed to be the promise of our justice system. But today in America, there’s one justice system for the rich and powerful, and another one for everybody else.

A FOREIGN POLICY FOR ALL
From endless wars that strain military families to trade policies that crush our middle class, Washington’s foreign policy today serves the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else.


https://elizabethwarren.com/issues/




Let's End the Republican Culture of Corruption. Vote Democratic and Throw the Old White Men OUT. Save Social Security, Medicare and The Environment.

http://prospect.org/article/how-tax-act-embodies-republican-culture-corruption

How the Tax Act Embodies the Republican Culture of Corruption.


The Tax Act is a Christmas tree of special-interest tax breaks. The only thing more corrupt than the substance was the way it was enacted. The Trump era has been defined by corruption: secret hush money payoffs, financial entanglements with foreign governments, constant grifting, and abuse of power to reward allies and punish enemies. And the most significant legislation that President Trump has signed into law—the 2017 Tax Act—is best understood as another product of Washington’s culture of corruption under Republican control.
The law showered massive new tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations at a time of rising inequality, record after-tax corporate profits, unmet domestic needs, and rising deficits. These tax cuts were deeply unpopular with the American people, but demanded by the Republican Party’s political donors. Given the basic mismatch between what the American people wanted on taxes and what Republicans were delivering, congressional leaders made two strategic decisions to force their bill through Congress: They fundamentally misrepresented its contents, and they sought to move it through Congress as fast as possible with minimal public scrutiny—creating a process accessible only to well-funded lobbies. The result was a massive windfall for corporate America and the wealthy, one that preserved some of the most egregious tax loopholes while carving out new ones, at the long-term expense of working Americans.


The Republican tax plan leaves a $1.5 trillion bill for the middle class to pay... They plan to pay it off by CUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/8/16751032/senate-house-republican-tax-plan-deficit-spending-cuts


Republicans have suggested they want to finance the cuts by slashing entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and food stamps. “We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said.

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