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Paul Ryan Promises to Raise Taxes on the Poor and Middle Class

For the past thirty years Republicans have used every argument under
the Sun to convince Americans that giving the wealthy more
entitlements was the path to prosperity through their absurd trickle-
down economics scam. Americans never quite caught on to the theory’s
failure, and during the Bush administration, Republicans promised that
if the people gave more to the rich and eliminated regulations,
prosperity would finally trickle down to the working class. Instead,
working Americans got a Great Recession, declining wages, lost jobs,
and the wealthiest Americans got richer.

The Republican’s never meant to create wealth that trickled down to
the masses because their philosophy is giving everything in America to
a few wealthy families, and in the past year they have attempted to
make drastic cuts to government that create poverty, homelessness, and
kill jobs to make room for more tax cuts for the rich. This week, Eric
Cantor revealed a new notion to help the wealthy and it entails
increasing taxes on the poor and middle class to give more
entitlements to the wealthy.

Most Republicans signed Grover Norquist’s pledge promising to never
raise taxes, but apparently they will break their promise if it means
more entitlements for the wealthy and if the poor and middle class
pick up the tab. Cantor said it is time to “question whether it’s
fair” that some Americans do not pay income tax and that “we should
broaden the (tax) base in a way that we can lower the rates for
everybody that pays taxes.” Cantor also said that to support the
operations of government, it is unfair to continue to “milk them
(rich) more because government has a duty to preserve their ability to
provide the growth engine.” It is the “job creator” meme; only now it
is the poor and middle class’s duty to give their money to the wealthy
to create jobs even though they have not created one job, and Cantor
calls that a fair system.

A majority of Americans believe a fair solution is to  increase the
richest Americans’ taxes to help support the government and programs
that benefit every American, but Republicans reject any proposal that
will not increase wealth at the top. Cantor said he never “believed
that you go raise taxes on those that have been successful, taking
away from them so that you just hand out and give to someone else,”
but it is perfectly acceptable to take money from the poor to “hand
out and give to someone else” if they are rich. Cantor’s idea is an
Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan philosophy that “takers” are draining resources
from the “makers” and it is the impetus for Ryan’s Draconian budget
that slashes spending on social safety nets to pay for outrageous tax
cuts for the wealthy. It is Republican idea of wealth redistribution
that  takes the poor and middle class’s limited wealth and
redistributing it to the top one percent.

The wealthy have to start sharing the sacrifice the rest of the
population is making for the good of the entire country, but since the
start of the 112th Congress Republicans burdened the poor and middle
class with all the sacrifices to pay for the wealthy’s entitlements
and it is still not enough to satisfy Republicans. For Cantor to claim
it is unfair for the rich to go without all the wealth is beyond
egregious; it a twisted philosophy that establishes the GOP’s
plutocracy.

The middle class, and especially the poor, face drastic cuts to
programs in Paul Ryan’s budget and every Republican has given their
stamp of approval including Willard Romney who stands to gain
immeasurably if his tax rate is reduced. It is the ultimate inequity
that while tens-of-millions of Americans are barely putting food on
the table and a roof over their family’s heads, Republicans want to
take even more to enrich the wealthy. While the rich are getting
richer, most Americans struggle to survive from paycheck to paycheck,
and if they are not paying income taxes, it is most certainly because
they are at or below the poverty level. One has to ponder; what will
it take for Republicans to stop stealing from the poor to give to the
rich? Apparently, it will take every American handing over everything
they own to the wealthy, and then it may not be enough to satisfy the
Republicans.

The Republicans who support Ryan’s budget advocate taking healthcare,
Medicare, food stamps,  housing assistance, and every other social
safety net from the poor, seniors, children and working class, and now
Cantor wants to take what little they have left to reward “those that
have been successful.” Americans should understand Republicans will
say and do anything to reward the wealthy, and if it means taxing
Americans who do not earn enough to pay income taxes, they will do it
as sure as they will take food off their tables and the roof over
their heads. It is an indication of the America Republicans envision
if they control the entire government and one that Americans who are
not super-wealthy should dread. It is beyond class warfare and if
Republicans are successful, it will be a holocaust.