Question for liberals. When in the history of this great nation have we taxed our way to prosperity?
February 28th, 2010 | by admin |I would like an HONEST answer, when in this history of this great nation when have we EVER by raising taxes, taxed our way into prosperity?
Never. I’m not a liberal, but I answered honestly. You won’t get an honest answer from a liberal.
17 Responses to “Question for liberals. When in the history of this great nation have we taxed our way to prosperity?”
By February1 on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
I think its funny that the Right pretend the Left support taxes but they don’t. Obviously the GOP didn’t do a thing to change the US tax system despite holding the congress and the White House for 6 years.
Spare us the empty Right wing talking points.
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By Keith on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
Never. I’m not a liberal, but I answered honestly. You won’t get an honest answer from a liberal.
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By nightowl1517 on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
We are not taxing our way to prosperity. I voted for Obama to take action, not to sit on his hands. He averted an economic disaster and the republicans are just blind to notice it.
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By Hater Police on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
February is exactly right. The conservatives increased spending and cut taxes…meaning the put off paying for their plans. That has to lead to an increase in taxes at some point.
The GOP are irresponsible and the Dems have to clean up after them.
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By Freedom Wins on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
Get ready America…….ALL Taxes are going up to pay for all this!!!
Take that to the bank on the Hill!!!
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By Pluto C. Rat on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
At the same time your cooberating banks put you all in unrealistic debt – beyond mortgages and with all kinds of credit scams. And with the full approval of your leaders. About the Reagan era.
How could you possibly pay such taxes for the most expensive military in the history of the world without borrowing yourself?
You’ll get the bill in a decade or two. The real one. The final one.
Your rich @ss thieving bankers will be in their Euro villas then. You’ll be here.
Have a nice day!
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By tribeca_belle on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
In the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1950s the top tax rate was over 90%. The country prospered. We were a creditor nation and helped rebuild other countries after World War II, including our former enemies. Under Reagan we became a debtor nation.
No one is suggesting a return to those high tax rates but history does not support your hysterical fears about taxation.
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By Right-wing nutjob on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
It will be a miracle, we will be the first country to ever successfully tax and spend our way out of debt. If not, we’ll just blame everything on Bush.
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By electricpole on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
Save your breath, they don’t care because so many of them pay little or no taxes, and do not care about general sustainable prosperity if it takes effort and sacrifice on their part.
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By Joe Finkle on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
We raised taxes during WWII from 4.4% in the lowest bracket and 81.1% in the highest in 1940 up to 23%in the lowest and 94% in the highest in 1944-1945. At the same time, we spent 125% of GDP. The taxes helped fund the massive spending and the massive infrastructure spending for the war effort pulled us out the Great Depression. FDR wasn’t willing to go that far in the New Deal, it took a war for the nation to get the will to do it.
Note, the 94% was also applied to a lower maximum tax bracket, taxing income over $200,000, rather than only over $5,000,000, meaning the increase is larger than it looks at first glance. Of course $200,000 was a LOT of money in the 1940′s. The lower end of the bracket also dropped from $4000 to $2000 in 1941 and remained at $2000 until 1948, again meaning the tax hike was bigger than it initially sounds.
Of course, you’ve got to worry about the deficit and inflation as well, but the question didn’t ask about that part of the equation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#History_of_progressivity_in_federal_income_tax
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02inpetr.pdf (page 4)
By route66_hustler on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
Cripple the military and hike the taxes, its the Democratic way.
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By NATURE'S CORNER on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
If we didn’t have taxes, almost all your income would go to paying for services that taxes are used for. Alas, a necessary evil. I would rather have taxes than pay for the services on my own WITHOUT taxes. As an example, I live in Houston, TX. A bus fair for a 2-hour use is $2.00, most needing two to three passes a day. Public Busing(for EVERYONE, not just the poor) is federally subsidized, otherwise, a bus pass would cost about $12.00. Two-three bus passes would be a big hunk of money. As a youth,in my home town(Bismarck,N.D.), the city widened the street past my parent’s house by two feet on either side-this was in the early seventies. The city felt the cost was the homeowner’s responsibility-the price $5,000.00(probably about $15,000.00 today. The citizens felt taxes should cover that, not the homeowners-fortunately-the homeowners walked away with only having to pay $500.00 instead of $5,000.00. Every school now gets Federal funding. There were two schools a number of years back, one predominantly White, one predominantly Black-some one clamored this was segregation(was found to be convenience, not segregation). In the mean time, Federal funds were withheld. Neither school could afford this,teachers were laid off, both schools ended up closing. taechers and their families moved away. The student’s families moved to areas where there were schools for the students. Bottom line the town became almost a ghost town. Everything public, gets some of our tax money, and, it is still NOT enough-look at the bridge repair systems. About 80% of the brdiges need minor to major repairs,many not getting done because of lack of funds. Bottomline, I am for taxes, the necessary evil, BBECAUSE I could not afford the services otherwise. You can only cut a pie so many ways before you need to get a bigger pie.We haven’t gotten a bigger pie yet.
THUMBS DOWN-Any time you want to pay for the services out of YOUR pocket-feel free-you will come running back to taxes when you can NOT keep up your payments.
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By Michael P in NJ on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
1993. I guess you weren’t paying attention when Bill Clinton, a President who understood economics, did it.
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By cosmo44024 on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
You guys thought Reagan was great and that’s what he did.
Let’s face it, we spend less than 1% of our GDP on infrastructure as compaired to 3 1/2% by India nd 9% by China.
You guys think everything should be free, you are ths socialists.
We don’t have much choice anymore, Obama was the first president in a long time to say damn the polls, this is what the country needs.
He is the realist.
You guys are all Bass Ackwards.
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Joey M. are you saying the liberals tax our way to prosperity?
I don’t know if you get the question.
You sound supportive but looking at your profile you could be Joe the plumber. Are you? Is he employed now?
Yes, those presidents did great things for the nation, I agree.
By dawg on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
it will only put us farther in debt, isnt it funny most liberals answer a question by pointing a finger.
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By Joey M on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
Every time liberals control the White House and Congress…
FDR, LBJ, Carter…need I say more?
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By ct_publishing on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply
No one is talking about raising your taxes. Odds are Obama has cut your taxes. Unless you are a millionaire then don’t worry.
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