Taxed Enough Already

NO YOU'RE NOT!

Today's federal personal tax rates are the lowest they've ever been since 1934.

Created by Catherine Mulbrandon at VisualizingEconomics.com

Is it any wonder why the government can no longer afford to fund social programs or the ability to reduce deficit spending which is leading us further away from reducing our national debts? You don't like planned parenthood.. defund it!
You don't like 'Obamacare'.. defund it!
You don't like food stamps.. defund them!
You don't like Medicare.. defund it!
You don't like unemployment benefits.. defund them!
You don't like supplemental housing assistance.. defund it!The truth of the matter is if the 'Tea Party' had their way they'd starve the U.S. Treasury of anything that stands between them and their goals.

The problem isn't that we spend too much. The problem is there are some extremists in congress that will never be content until they shrink the United States government down to the size of a walnut.

The reason why things buzzed right along for the baby boomers was because they were willing to help pay for things. Something the Tea Party in their ignorance are unwilling to do. When today's 'baby boomers' were in their early 30's, around 1981, the top marginal tax rate 50% (although taxes on earnings from dividends & interests was 60%). Corporate taxes were near 50%. Even those tax rates being what they were, the middle income 'boomers' were still able to afford a relatively comfortable life. Since then federal tax rates have taken a nose dive. Is it any wonder then that the United States finds itself in a pickle?

The far right Tea Party activist in the U.S. Congress are attempting to undermine the previous programs that have served us well through the years by kicking the legs out from under them rather then help pay for them.

If the government is properly funded, there's money available to enforce against fraud/waste so that programs vital and necessary can run efficiently. Over the last few years funds for enforcement against fraud and waste have been gutted by those opposed to them. This enables those against these various programs to rail about how government has become wasteful and inefficient.

Well yeah! When you cut off funding that allows for oversight of these programs that is exactly what will happen (and they know it too).

It doesn't take a financial genius to understand what this bunch is up to. Take away the necessary nutrients which nourish a plant and it will whither and die. It wasn't that the plant wasn't healthy. It wasn't that the plant hadn't made life a bit more pleasant for others. It's was guilty of nothing other then it's continued existence in the same yard of those who would just as soon trample it to death because they don't want to help care for it in their self-centeredness.

If the so-called leaders in Washington, DC continue down this path, the United States could find itself withering until little remains of it's former selflessness that once was the envy to the rest of the world.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist..."
~ ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ ~
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator