Peter that is absolutel nonesense and stricktly conservative rich talking points. The shrinking middleclass is the result of a 20-30 assault on the working class by rich corporate interests.
The have carried out a campaign of outsourcing every job they could to various places around the world, china being the premier destination.
The have categorically stripped workers of pensions, benefits and stagnated wages. All to the benefit of the rich.
The rich pay a pittance on any tax rate and I am not going to post again for 15 th time here the list of corporations that PAID ZERO in federal taxs while listing profits in the billions.
Conservatives.
Vote against an raise in the minimum wage that is 20 yrs behind
Vote against extending unemployment, they say it causes people not to seek work WHAT WORK WHERE ARE THE JOBS. I guess they mean seek work in McDonalds or walmart and still be on food stamps or move to china.
Voted to reduce food stamps.
Every Paul ryans budget cuts social security and pushs huge tax cuts for the rich.
They vote FOR and fight like dogs to keep subidies to Rich Corporations that have never had a losing quarter Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Corporate Farms. No one has ever explained why taxpayers have been raped for decades with these subsidies or why they need them other than to line their pockets even more. While they screw americans at the pump and at the drugstor and supermarket.
Corporate and Rich america is doing FABULOUS its working america and the middleclass that has been crushed by them.
LETS GO BRANDON
F Joe Biden
Could we trust all corps to operate in a responsible manner without any regulations? I seem to remember a river in our nation bursting into flames because of industrial pollution before regulations. Some people can't be trusted.
I'm an environmentalist, when I think of "regulation" I think mainly of environmental regulation which I generally don't have a problem with.
There is a cost to extract and consume resources and that cost is far too often on the shoulders of unrelated third parties at the benefit of shareholders.
my junk is ugly
Can you trust anyone? Probably best not to. Regulation that prevents harm by force or fraud protects the rights of people. Nothing wrong with that. Where it get off base--off its constitutional base--is when government regulates to redistribute or protect wealth in various ways.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
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I think a good portion of the problem could be resolved by eliminating the current tax standards....but I'm not naive enough to believe that will ever happen. Tax loopholes, etc are the prize that politicians award to their supporters.
If it's genuinely for protecting our environment, then fine, but too often it's done to set up barriers to new innovations in the market, to make it too expensive to start up.
Some I find questionable. There's an intersection of two busy highways near where I live. To alleviate the traffic problem, the state decided to tunnel one under the other. After spending a few million, it was discovered, in some cavities in the underlying limestone live some endangered species spider. Construction has been at a standstill for years. They recently decided to protect the spider they would spend millions extra to build an overpass. That to me is nuts.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
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