Why are Republicans so angry? Who really cares anymore.
An article in Burnt Orange Report tries to explain current republican political anger:
Republicans started cutting taxes for corporations and top income earners under Ronald Reagan. He convinced Congress to cut the top marginal rate from 69 percent in 1980 to 28% in 1988. This approach then started to trickle down to the states.
The Center for Public Policies Priorities, a non-partisan research center based in Austin, provides an annual report called “Who pays Texas Taxes?” In 2009 Texans with incomes less than $27,000 have to pay 12 percent of their income to the state. The tax burden for Texans earning over $117,000 is just 4.9 percent. No wonder the average Texan is angry. After 30 years of “Republican tax cuts,” the benefits have never trickled down to us.
Bill Clinton tried to fix this disparity. He raised the top marginal rate to 39 percent and gave middle class families several tax breaks. For example, he proposed the child tax credit to help families pay for day-to-day expenses, and, the Hope Scholarship for students entering college. Through a combination of tax cuts and increases Clinton created the first budget surplus since World War Two.
Republicans are angry. Their house of cards has collapsed and grand fleecing of the rest of America has been exposed for what it is. The few left have no place else to turn but to their own hatred of everything beyond the scope of their own navels.
Agree or disagree with the democratic doctrine, but one of the many things it promotes is concern for the welfare of others. You don’t have to be the most compassionate person in the world to understand that what benefits the bottom 30% will benefit the top 30%. To me, this is a no brainer. Businesses thrive when EVERYONE can afford goods and services. Stockbrokers get richer when their client base grows beyond just the top 1%. The cost of our government gets CHEAPER when we’re not paying down an enormous credit card issued by countries like China and Saudi Arabia. And, as a consequence, our security as a country is increased when we don’t have to compromise our relationships with other nations due to our overwhelming debt.
George W. Bush put this country on the path of disaster. Obama is doing all the right things to move us off this path. If the hard-headed, prejudice, selfish, narrow-minded dead-enders want to complain about this, create right wing extremist groups in response or act as spoilsports in Senatorial races like that of Coleman and Franken, lets let them.
They’ve shown us who they are. We’ve seen their anger first-hand - and we reject it as a country.
