One of Obama’s and his surrogates unrelenting themes is that we should raise taxes on wealthy so they pay their fair share and we can get the deficit under control. Polling has shown that this line of attack is pretty effective with blue collar voters Romney needs in Ohio and the Midwest.
It is mind boggling that the Romney surrogates don’t hammer home the simple following facts home repeatedly on these shows:
1) Even if you dramatically raise taxes on those making over $250,000, the resulting increase in tax revenues (even assuming no change in behavior) does not come even remotely close to covering JUST OBAMA’S PROPOSED INCREASE IN SPENDING.
2) The real problem is the SPENDING. It is not a revenue problem.
3) The wealthy already pay way more than their fair share.
The bottom line is that Obama has increased spending exponentially and he and the democrats know that the only way to balance the budget without reducing spending is to raise taxes on the middle class. The Republicans cannot give the democrats a free pass on this as they have done so far. Every Republican who appears on these shows has got to make it clear that if spending is not reined in, taxes for everyone will have to go up and a tax increase on just the wealthy will not even come close to getting the job done.
Grover Norquist couldn’t even make the right argument this morning. Good grief.
So here’s the choice that Republicans have to lay out for people in response to Obama’s claim that we need to raise taxes on the wealthy to balance the budget.
“The numbers clearly indicate that raising taxes on the wealthy will not allow us to close the deficit if spending continues at the current level. The choice we face is to either rein in spending or raise taxes on everyone. Its as simple as that.”
The Republican job between now and the election is to make sure people know that that is in fact the choice. And I think if people understand the truth and that Obama is now lying, then we can win the argument.
And whatever tax increase revenue is raised will just be ploughed into the welfare state to keep it on life support. What many of the people seem to be missing is that increased revenue will not solve our problems if we continue doing the same thing with the money.
We have other arguments at heritage.org.
The stuff below from heritage makes great arguments and if we don’t start using it soon we may regret it.
Here is a list of the top five reasons we need to use more in our arguments to win.
1. If Job creators are over taxed its costs 700k jobs,you cans see the detail in the link.
2.The “uncertainty” alone for investors is a huge problem not knowing what the obama regime will do next currently has billions upon billions of investment capital on the sidelines not doing anything but collecting dust and lots of it offshore.
3.The more taxation the lower the incentive.
4. Within obamacare alone just to mention a few of the problems is a 3.8% investment tax of all things. You just can’t win with socialism.
5. The death tax kicks in big time with an obama win.
As you can see there is so much at stake financially its the difference between a huge win for the economy vs. socialism coming after every producer in the country and we haven’t even touched on energy or anything else.