The Challenge

By Pixel at March 3, 2005 at 12:00 am. Filed in advocacy, seriously now, world

“i’m a republican. (i think) im for the tax cuts.”
Okay. Let’s analyze that:

From the Christian Science Monitor:

“Budgets are moral documents, providing a framework for laying out priorities and values,” says Yonce Shelton, public policy director for Call to Renewal, a progressive, faith-based organization in Washington. His biggest complaint: The administration is “trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor,” at the same time it is expanding tax cuts for the wealthy. “It’s not a moral-based approach,” he says.

(February 2005)

From the Denver Post:

When Bush came into office, the government’s operating surplus was $236 billion with a 10-year projection of $5.6 trillion. Now the 10-year projection shows a $3 trillion deficit, an $8.6 trillion reversal of fiscal fortune that could eventually stress the government’s ability to borrow.

(February 2, 2005)

The Washington Post:

The first step was to enact, in a series of bills adopted from 2001 through 2004, extremely large tax cuts. This year alone those tax cuts will total $215 billion. High-income households will reap most of the gains, with the top 20 percent of earners receiving 70 percent of the tax cuts. Roughly $47 billion of the cuts will go to the top 1 percent, a group with average incomes of about $1 million.

These tax cuts were not paid for. Their costs simply were added to the national debt. Largely as a consequence, the deficit remains quite substantial several years into a recovery. Concern about the debt and deficit is mounting.

(January 11, 2005)

Are you still a republican? And if you are, are you still for tax cuts? And if you are, are you still for these tax cuts? Ponder, ponder… Let me give you a situation or w/e and you can tell me what you think:

Would you prefer making $100,000 and not having any social programs around– i.e. private schools, toll roads, Social Security, Medicare, etc.– OR making $30,000, and having some moderately maintained roads, schools, and some okay programs (many of which didn’t benefit you specifically)?

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