Taxes must be raised like in the '80s and '90s
Why can't Democrats raise taxes the way “Reagan did 11 times in his office by closing loopholes on the rich, hiked gas and payroll taxes and abolished special favors; and George H. W. Bush did (including raising surtaxes on yachts, luxury sedans and jets) which cost him the election in 1992”. How is it that republicans now have no regard for the poor or middle class and are strictly now after coveting the most wealth and want it there way and damn the poor and middle class in the process who simply must accept the higher tax burden. “Now the conservatives want to force cuts in federal spending by bankrupting the country.” In the 80s Bob Dole was the one who undid a lot of the Reagan tax cuts. Where were the democrats? “The republicans (Reagan) embraced it because at some point one has to pay the bills.” “Bill Clinton continued raising taxes and it cost him both houses of Congress in 1994. The republicans had decided on an oath at this point to cut taxes for the rich no matter what. No republican dared risk breaking this oath from here forward. As the republicans now ruled the houses they chose to eliminate inheritance taxes and on inheritance income” (Newt Gingrich led the charge!). “ Capital gains taxes were cut as well. Now 62% of every dollar went to the top 1% of income earners.” Grover Norquist was the wizard behind these tax cuts that became part of the heart of the republican party that no one would dare oppose.
But Clinton throughout his career of being president and certainly at the end of his presidency vetoed as many tax cuts as he could. This is part of the reason I believe George Bush Jr. got in in 2000. He killed the necessary taxation of the rich. Grover Norquist and vice president Cheney and their lot drove the economy off a cliff.
My thoughts and suggestions are that we increase taxation more to where it was in the 80s and 90s which might be reasonable to reach and tax the buying and trading of stocks. I have been saying this to people for many years. I really believe it could pull us out of the depths of despair. But the president and Congress would have to be willing to stretch this far; it is truly the least they could do.
By Aaron Crosetto
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Mental Health and economics
If we want to actively keep our freedoms, then we must educate ourselves continually to stay on top
of the issues we hold most dear in a democracy. We all owe a great debt to those willing to occupy
Wall Street and hold these Wall Street criminals to task. But people involved on any level also may
feel a bit of impotence in our current global union to really be able to get politicians to make change.
Obama said, "it is up to the people." Well we have spoken and continue to speak. What has Obama
done in response? Impotent leadership is all we have witnessed so far. He actually has made large
amounts of money off the scandals being protested. The wealth for the top 1 % keeps multiplying
and we are left with fewer and fewer crumbs. Money rules all voting, not the people's vote. This is
the implied message being spread everywhere.
Even back in 1890, a populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease said, "Wall Street owns the country...
our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The pol-
itical parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us...Money rules."
Corporations, banks and governments are working against the common people and what is left of our
welfare. This causes psychological suffering on pandemic levels. And sadly, our president is in bed
with these destroyers of democratic hope. Politicians nothing but money launderers. The corporations
see to this. On top of it all, the wealthiest barely pay any taxes. Corporations are also paying pol-
iticians to kill any and all legislation that might help the common soul. Those trying to help the poor
and middle class become marginalized and easily defeated. Except perhaps by large and small groups
like occupy Wall Street.
"Vast inequalities of income weakens a societie's sense of mutual concern...The sense that we are
all members of the social order is vital to the meaning of civilization." It is private interest over public
duty. These emence stressors spark mental illness and the depletion of health for everyone but the
wealthy who have the riches to help with psychiatry, medecine and counseling. The treacherous
nature of economic crashes and strain and painful toil hurt our health and take our sanity and strengths
to lower and lower levels as people desperately try to survive in the wreckage of our societie's social
security net which they so need to survive. Mental health equals quality of life that needs support of
the top 1% in today's stratification of wealth to survive unless by some miracle wealth can be redistrib-
uted properly, including through progressive taxation of the wealthy classes. If this does not happen,
the rubble we find ourselves within in America is not unlike that of the book "Lord of the Flies." This is
a world where no quality of life is possible and would mean death to many. This would be the end to
what we know as mental health. Please let's keep up the struggle for human rights and occupying
Wall Street, government and banking not just in America but the whole of the world.
by Aaron Crosetto
If we want to actively keep our freedoms, then we must educate ourselves continually to stay on top
of the issues we hold most dear in a democracy. We all owe a great debt to those willing to occupy
Wall Street and hold these Wall Street criminals to task. But people involved on any level also may
feel a bit of impotence in our current global union to really be able to get politicians to make change.
Obama said, "it is up to the people." Well we have spoken and continue to speak. What has Obama
done in response? Impotent leadership is all we have witnessed so far. He actually has made large
amounts of money off the scandals being protested. The wealth for the top 1 % keeps multiplying
and we are left with fewer and fewer crumbs. Money rules all voting, not the people's vote. This is
the implied message being spread everywhere.
Even back in 1890, a populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease said, "Wall Street owns the country...
our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The pol-
itical parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us...Money rules."
Corporations, banks and governments are working against the common people and what is left of our
welfare. This causes psychological suffering on pandemic levels. And sadly, our president is in bed
with these destroyers of democratic hope. Politicians nothing but money launderers. The corporations
see to this. On top of it all, the wealthiest barely pay any taxes. Corporations are also paying pol-
iticians to kill any and all legislation that might help the common soul. Those trying to help the poor
and middle class become marginalized and easily defeated. Except perhaps by large and small groups
like occupy Wall Street.
"Vast inequalities of income weakens a societie's sense of mutual concern...The sense that we are
all members of the social order is vital to the meaning of civilization." It is private interest over public
duty. These emence stressors spark mental illness and the depletion of health for everyone but the
wealthy who have the riches to help with psychiatry, medecine and counseling. The treacherous
nature of economic crashes and strain and painful toil hurt our health and take our sanity and strengths
to lower and lower levels as people desperately try to survive in the wreckage of our societie's social
security net which they so need to survive. Mental health equals quality of life that needs support of
the top 1% in today's stratification of wealth to survive unless by some miracle wealth can be redistrib-
uted properly, including through progressive taxation of the wealthy classes. If this does not happen,
the rubble we find ourselves within in America is not unlike that of the book "Lord of the Flies." This is
a world where no quality of life is possible and would mean death to many. This would be the end to
what we know as mental health. Please let's keep up the struggle for human rights and occupying
Wall Street, government and banking not just in America but the whole of the world.
by Aaron Crosetto
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