A note about taxes

[margotb822]

I have a few issues with some of the tax ideas that the candidates are or are not talking about.

First of all, any business person that believes the way to make money and create jobs is through tax cuts for business and wealthy deserves to be out of business. That's nothing more than welfare, which fiscal conservatives claim to be against. The fact of the matter is that the way to grow a business is through increased product sales, whatever your product may be. And you can only sell your product if people have the money to buy it. Therefore, the strength of the economy and our financial system is in the rate at which money changes hands. But, money can only change hands if it's in people's hands to begin with.

Second, in case all these people haven't noticed, we're fighting two wars right now at a cost of more than $12 billion per month, among other massive spending requirements. There are two ways to pay for this. One, we can pay on credit (which we're doing) and drive up the national debt. Or two, we could have a government that realizes its spending more than it makes and it either needs to spend less (by, say, not fighting two wars) or raise more money. So, sorry to everyone who thinks "tax" is a dirty word, but it's a fact of life in these United States.

Right now, the US economy is at a standstill. Money is not changing hands and all the corporate welfare in the world isn't creating jobs...because money isn't moving. The wealthy obviously haven't been doing their part to ensure the wealth trickles down. So, fuck em. Let the wealth trickle up. Let the people spend the money, buy the products, increase the demand for jobs and drive the economy.

I'm not saying spend more, I'm saying spend smarter. If we're not willing to invest in ourselves, what does that say about our country?

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