The Republican candidates were here in Jacksonville, Fl the other night and I was more than a little frustrated that I wasn’t able to get my hands on a ticket to the debate. Then I got to thinking about it and decided that I rather speak my mind than listen right now anyway!
Our country is on the verge of collapse. Barrack Obama has run our deficit up to over 15 trillion dollars in three years! When he took office our deficit was only 10 trillion. He has worsened our financial situation by 50% in less than one term! How does that happen? He can’t even use the bailouts, something George W. Bush started, as an excuse because a large portion of those programs were initiated before he got into office.
Unbelievable. That is the best word i can come up with. Incomprehensible. Unfathomable. Historically speaking this has been the most devastating three years of America since the commencement of the Civil War. I think America’s political elite are so thoroughly convinced that we, the citizens, are so stupid that we can’t figure out that they are wagging the dog. Right now I don’t care if our president is pro-life or anti-abortion. At the moment I don’t give a darn if our next president made 1 million or 100 million last year. The American public needs to wake up and realize that we need a fundamental change in direction.
First and foremost, we need a flat tax. For every dollar earned, by any individual or business, the tax rate should be 15% (about the same amount Romney was liable for on his earnings). It shouldn’t matter if you make 1o,00o a year or 50,000,000. For every dollar an American person or business earns it should cost a set amount. No more “loopholes”, no more tax breaks; just a set taxation of 15% on every dollar.
As it stands, the only people being adversely affected by our current tax code are the middle and upper middle class. Under our current tax code, only about half of America’s population has any federal income tax liability. Many folks make too little to “owe” anything under our graduated system, and some make so much that they can protect their income by channeling it through the right investments, coming up with write-offs, or hiding their money off shore. Romney makes so much freaking money that he can’t even tell you how much he has or where it is. Yet, hard working and successful individuals (at least by my measure) are stuck paying 35% of every dollar they make. It doesn’t make any sense.
Why should people be punished for being in the upper-middle class? Why should people be rewarded for being broke? Why should individuals like Mitt Romney pay 20% less than others who made over 19 million dollars less than him in the same year? Why? Because America is corrupt. I hate to say it but the people who create policy put their interests in front of the well being of America and her people. Their idea of fair is to keep taxes low on the upper 1/2 percent, have the bottom 40% pay nothing, and tax the shit out of the rest of us. It’s crazy, it’s unfair, and it is absolutely wrong. Mitt, if I had it my way everyone would pay exactly the same percentage as you. But as it is, folks making 100,000 per year pay 35%, while people like you who are loaded, and bottom feeders like me who barely eat (literally), pay much much less.
I say, “No freaking more.” No more bullshit tax brackets. No more avoiding the realities we live with. America needs a lot of work and the people at the top, for the most part, don’t care. They are in it for their own benefit. They don’t care that most Americans barely survive. They don’t care that folks who are moderately successful get shafted. All they care about is their money and what is afforded by their position. Money got them there. The power keeps them there. And the position gives them more of both.
