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Anyone see the article about Rand Paul's plan to 'blow up the tax code'?

It's on Yahoo News now.

http://news.yahoo.com/presidential-candidate-rand-...

He's going to give EVERYONE a tax cut, like Reagan and both Bushes promised (but never did). TRILLIONS of dollars in tax cuts. AND he's going to balance the budget even with lower taxes. With budget cuts that he can't specify--like Reagan, the Bushes and John McCain and Mitt Romney and even the famous Paul Ryan budget of 2012--tax cuts now, budget cuts later when we decide what they'll be.

Do Republicans never get wise to this perennially broken promise? Hasn't the GOP learned ANYTHING since the 80s?

Comments? Arguments?

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    6 years ago
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    No, Republicans do not learn from history, heck, let them just ask Gov. Brownbeck in Ks, about how lowering tax rates do not increase revenues.

    Kansas recently had "overtime" legislative session lasting over 100 days while they argued how to save Kansas from bankruptcy, caused by Brownbeck's tax breaks to special interests.

    The conservatives finally agreed to raise taxes on cigarettes by $6.00 a cartoon, and increased sales taxes by over 1/2 cent per dollar. Missouri businesses really loved that, it will push more consumers into Mo. stores.

    Point is, GOP has history of opposing progressive taxation (taxes those with greatest ability to pay more) and instead want a flat tax, sales tax, or regressive taxes that allow those with most money to keep more, while those with least money make up the difference.

    That's what they mean by "busting tax codes", these are progressive codes that allow deductions to the middle class and small business owners. They wish to avoid "double taxation" by taxing only personal income, not corporate income (even though they still claim corporations to be people, lol)

    This is why blue states are more prosperous than red ones, and why the GOP is losing support, even among the more wealthy Americans.

    Nice questions.

    Short answer is: losers seldom learn.

  • 6 years ago

    It all comes down to the political philosophy argument of the INDIVIDUAL vs. SOCIETY. Most on the GOP side seek to protect the individual and keep him/her free from external encumbrances, like government and taxation. But without any government structure and funding for things that benefit everyone--such as building highways, sanitation services, maintaining parks, underwriting a reliable military, regulating commerce & industry.....ALL OF IT--there just can be no society, no civilization and therefore no brilliant, driven, successful entrepreneurs who complain about taxes all the time until they are blue in the face....even if they live in a red state.

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