Of course it makes sense.
No, saying it makes sense doesn't make it make sense. It just makes it Progressive.
Very convenient that when you ask rich people to pay more of their income in taxes it's class warfare. When you ask the rich to pay less of their income in taxes it's just keeping your money.
Of course it's convenient, because it's the truth. When Government takes someones money, any amount of it, they're taking what isn't theirs to pay for themselves. We allow it because we need (some) Government. When you hit $3 Trillion budgets that aren't funded, will never be funded, and don't care to be funded, there is simply no reason to raise them. Why? So they'll be underfunded less, yet still massively underfunded? And even if the budget were to be balanced, balanced at what stratopheric level?
And if you try to raise the taxes back up to the same level they were in the past? Whoops! Since you lowered them before it's class warfare again!
Finally you're getting it. See above. When the Gov can live within its means, then it can ask for mo money. When it can't, giving it more isn't the answer. You don't give a crack addict more money to buy more crack. You sit him/her in the treatment timeout until they can control themselves. It should be noted: That almost never happens until the crack addict hits zero. For Gov, that's finally crashing so hard that reform
must happen. Witness Greece as a perfect example. Even totally F'd, they
still are resisting doing what is necessary (largely because, like the US is becoming, they've allowed themselves to get so bad for so long, when it finally comes crashing down, the remedy is one hard pill to swallow).
All this of course goes without mentioning that the Republicans explicitly want to raise income taxes on the poor. THAT'S not class warfare though, that's everyone 'paying their fair share'.
Class warfare = doing anything that gives rich people less money.
Yes, they're doing it wrong. Just raise taxes on nobody. Deficits don't matter, deficit spending doesn't matter, so no need to raise taxes. That
is what Libs have been saying for a while now right? That debt/GDP doesn't matter? We can print? If we can do all those things, no need to take attention away from reckless spending and budgets that are never balanced by all this tax talk.
Heck, make taxes 10% across the board. It'll spur the economy right? The increased deficit? They haven't cared in the past, so who should care now?
Very odd logic you have, very odd....
Chuck