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Posted on 10/20/2011 11:05:03 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Vote for any of the current GOP candidates that are offering tax cuts as part of their economic plan.
47% of voters pay no income taxes. In 1984 it was only 18%. Over the years that number steadily increased under both Democrats and Republicans. We’ve reached the point where creating more non-taxpaying voters will tip us over the edge.
Most of the current GOP candidates have a tax plan based around the current system that includes another big tax cut for workers, which will cause the number of non-taxpaying voters to inch up a few percentage points. In the past that hasn’t been a significant problem—going from 18% to 25% didn’t affect society too much. But now we’re talking about going from 47 to 51, 53, or even 55%.
Voters that don’t have to worry about where the money comes from vote for the party that promises the most government freebies: the Democratic Party. At 55%, the Democrats would become a permanent majority in congress. They would surely take us down the path of becoming a European style socialist state. Barak Obama’s vision of America’s future would become a reality.
The only way to stop this is to get more people, not less, more of the 47% involved in paying taxes. That’s going to be a tough sell for conservatives. Let’s be blunt, for the 47% that doesn’t pay anything now, it’s a tax increase.
But we’ve got to do it. The alternative is just unacceptable. We can only hope there are still enough thoughtful people that care more about their country than themselves.
Which of the GOP candidates now have a plan that would accomplish this?
Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum all have plans based on the current tax structure, all their plans involve big personal income tax cuts, and all will create move voters that pay zero in income taxes. These are your 55% candidates. If you are concerned about the number of non-taxpaying voters, you can’t vote for these candidates; you just can’t.
This is the keystone issue of this election. If we don’t get this problem corrected, it won’t matter what else we do. Once we reach the tipping point of non-taxpaying voters, we will hand the keys of the government to the Democrats permanently--and down the road we'll go.
Yes I know it’s going to be a tough sell, but the alternative it tougher.
We're at 47% now. What will America be like when it goes to 55% under a GOP tax cutting plan?
We used to have low income housing. Now we have no income housing.
Nothing in the article says anyone should vote for Obama.
What it points out, accuratly, is that if we continue to increases the number of voters that pay zero income taxes, then we will eventually get to the point that there will be so many non-taxpaying voters that it will result in a permanent Democrat majority.
The way to stop that is to change the tax code to bring more people into the paying category. Cain, Perry, and maybe Gingrich have plans that would do that.
The plans being proposed by Romney, Santorum, and Bachmann would increase the number of non-taxpaying voters. (Ironicly, Bachmann in the last debate came out in support of making sure more voters had “skin in the game”, yet her own plan would reduce the number of voters that have “skin in the game”.)
The point of emphasis of this article is the primaries. Not the general election.
specially now since CAIN has modified his 999 plan....
The country has a bigger job problem than a tax problem. Get the 25 million un/underemployed back on the full-time payroll and they will be paying taxes.
Yes agree with you that the primaries are the place. I would go Perry,Cain and then reluctantly Mitt in that order.
AMEN and AMEN!
“So I would ask the writer if the nominee is say Romney or Bachmann or Santorum what will you do stay home and give the election to Obama? Yeah that’ll show em! Jeeze what the HELL!”
Don’t jump ahead. This article is about who should win the Republican nomination. Primary season hasn’t happened yet.
If I were a Dem, I would distill this message into 3 words - “Tax the Poor.” But I am not a Dem and yet I have been sayng those 3 words for years now, it ALWAYS produces a reaction that alllows me to explain the concept properly.
Fabian-Socialist/Progressive George Bernard Shaw said “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Low income housing was government building apartment complexes that gangs took over.
Government didn’t want to own the real estate becuase people living there trashed their own units and their surroundings.
So they forced banks to make subprime loans, and become the owners of the properties these people would wind up not maintaining because they didn’t know how and had no pride in maintaining them. Or paying their mortgages.
Government forcibly privatized public housing onto the banks via subprime mortgages. If the properties got damaged it’d be up to someone else, not government, to repair them, be responsible for them, etc. And if banks complained govt always could demonize the banks.
The problem here is profound: once you start giving money to part of the population, and letting them pay no taxes, THEY ARE NEVER AGAIN GOING TO WANT TO PAY TAXES.
You cannot return to a previous state/condition.
Yes, they need to be taxed. No question.
But to think that once they are taxed, this will win their votes??????? When they are used to paying no taxes? Sorry, not gonna happen.
As Jefferson said, once the people learn they can vote themselves money, it’s all over.......we passed that line long ago, and that’s the Dem base appeal, and never going to change....”Vote for us - We’ll give you more things...”
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