Speaking of Tax Cuts.....

Top Tax Rates were 70%+ from 1936 to 1980, and 90%+ from 1944 to 1963.

Since 1981, the Reagan Top rate tax cuts from 70% to now 35% have cost us 300 billion per year, 9 trillion over 30 years, plus 7 trillion for interest on the Republican Debt.

The higher top tax rates also had deductions, but those deductions were for plants, wages and equipment. Those deductions created good paying jobs.

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Why we must raise taxes on the rich – taxes for the middle class have soared as taxes on the rich have plummeted.

http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/FEATURE-NEWS/WHY-WE-MUST-RAISE-TAXES-ON-THE-RICH-br-Taxes-for-middle-class-have-soared-taxes-for-the-rich-have-plummeted-635614

Growth in GDP vs Top Marginal Tax Rate vs Debt vs Government GDP
Historical Facts Debunking Republican LIES.

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As you can see, the Higher top Marginal Tax Rates of the Past did not deter growth, they did not grow government, but they did keep the debt down.

The biggest reason we are 15 trillion in debt is due to the top rate tax cuts.

Learn from History.

Successful Economics is about balanced regulation, progressive tax rates, as well as government spending on social programs and infrastructure.

1947 - 1979 We All Grew

1980 - 2007 We Grew Apart

Growth of Family Income
http://www.connectthedotsusa.com/images/FavSlides/JobsWages/WeGrewApart.jpg

If the average American family still got the same share of income they earned in 1980, they would have an astounding $13,000 more in their pockets a year. It’s worth pausing to consider what our economy would be like today if middle-class consumers had that additional income to spend.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-07/raise-taxes-on-rich-to-reward-true-job-creators-nick-hanauer.html

Even my Grandmother always said "Republicans are only for the rich."

The Greatest Generation Taxed the Rich at 90%, paid down the World War II debt, funded world class infrastructure, and forged the Greatest Middle Class Economy in History!

We would do good to follow their example of Middle Class Unity!   ...Thanks Facebook...

 

Today the Senate Democrats voted to extend the tax cuts for ALL earning UP TO 250,000.00, but any income OVER 250,000.00  tax rates will rise to what they were under the prosperous Clinton years, as they should. Chuck Schumer says this is a huge victory for Democrats and I agree. This puts a spotlight onto the GOP as the party who will take us over the cliff BECAUSE of their insistence the WEALTHY NEEDS those Bush tax cuts to be permanent! Republicans are either gonna kill their party..OR they will surrender their idiotic stance of NO tax increases for any American. As President Obama said, he will VETO any bill that calls for a tax cut extension on the top 2%, we simply can not afford it....It's do or die time GOPers...