So, when Tea Partied
Republican Congressional members
give you the scripted talking points
that if taxes on the upper one percent are increased and corporations are more
regulated, it will a) increase the
deficit, b) punish job creators , and c) discourage job creators from creating
jobs remember – it’s all a scam!
GOP CORPORATE WELFARE SCAM
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SPIN DETECTION FACTS
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“Tax hikes for the wealthy will increase the deficit”
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“Tax cuts have been the single largest contributor to the reemergence of substantial budget deficits in recent years”
Most Recent Report on Tax Cuts
Congressional Budget Office
“There is a need to raise the highest rate to help reverse
the nation’s growing burden of debt”.
Documented endorsement of over 200 wealthy
members of the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength network
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“The economy has grown strongly over the past several
years because of the tax cuts”
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“The 2001-2007 economic expansion was sub-par overall, and
job and wage growth were anemic.”
Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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“Even if high-income taxpayers have received the largest
gains from the tax cuts, taxpayers across the income spectrum have benefited”
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“Over a period of 12
years, tax rates for the richest 400 Americans were effectively “cut in half” at the same time that
their total income skyrocketed to over $6 billion”
IRS
Report – April, 2011
“Under the GOP approach the richest one percent would pay
$50,660 less in taxes then under
the President’s approach while lower income groups would pay $150 more on
average under the Republican approach.”
US Taxpayers and Bush Tax Cuts
Citizens for Tax Justice
“People who make more than $1 million should pay a 30
percent effective tax rate so that the wealthiest Americans won’t continue to
pay lower tax rates than middle
class families”.
Billionaire Warren Buffet
“When it comes to taxes, not all income is created – or
taxed- equal”, and “despite the time-honored value of rewarding hard work,
our tax code gives preferential treatment to income derived from pre-existing
wealth instead of income earned from work.”
Documented endorsement of over 700 wealthy
members of the Responsible Wealth network
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“Entrepreneurs and investors who pay low taxes, build companies
and create millions of jobs”
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“Dozens of rich entrepreneurs have already gone on record
confirming that a modest hike in capital gains and income taxes would not have the slightest impact on their desire to create companies and jobs,
given that tax rates are historically
low.”
Finally, A Rich American
Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs - business insider.com
“1) taxes on rich people are already historically low; 2) what creates jobs is a healthy economy with customers who
can afford to buy a company’s products, and 3) if customers go broke, the
demand for the company’s products will collapse and the jobs will disappear, regardless of what the entrepreneur
does”
Billionaire Nick Hanauer
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“Tax hikes will punish job creators”
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Job creators want:
What Job Creators Really Want usnews.com
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We must continue our fight for fair taxation. Petition and continue your Wake Up Calls to Tea Partied Republican Congressional members at the links below:
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WAKE UP CALLS
CALL Your Senators: Tell Them to vote YES on taxing the rich
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Use this free tool to find the email
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Sources:
Corporate welfare is a pejorative term first coined
by Ralph Nader in 1956 to describe a government's bestowal ofgrants
and/or tax breaks on one or more corporations ...
Bush Tax Cuts Extension:
What Are The Effects? Infographic. ... #1 How much tax will
a married couple with 2 children pay if the Bush tax cuts DON’T
expire?
As
ThinkProgress has detailed, the House Republican budget,
authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI),
pays for massive tax cuts for the wealthiest
...
The massive reduction is
due to both Bush-era tax reductions for the wealthy and
the aggressive ... As their tax rates... the same effective rate in
2007 as ...http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/18/159261/tax-disparity-chart
Taxes on rich people (capital gains and income) are,
relative to history, low, ... Read Nick Hanauer's editorial here
> UPDATE: This article struck a nerve, ...
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which are top items on the GOP agenda. But there
other things job creators want even
... Chief Business Correspondent Rick Newman demystifies
it and explains ...http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2011/12/22/what-job-creators-really-want
“Business demand is what drives hiring.”
In the same piece Michael Kehs, CEO of Chesapeake
Energy, said a taxadvantage “does not drive our hiring.”
Significant tax increases on the about $1.5
trillion in collective income of those of us in the top 1 percent could ... NickHanauer at Nick@secondave
...
Responsible Wealth is a network of
business leaders, investors, and inheritors in the richest five percent
of wealthand/or income in the U.S. who believe that ...http://faireconomy.org/responsible_wealth
This organization, Patriotic Millionaires For Fiscal Strength,
... Patriotic Millionaires understand that their
involvement might be bad for business, ...
GOTTA VOTE
2014!
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