Sorry Tanner, I have to
from Tanner's LJ:
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12:12 am - goddamn liberals
i make less that 25k a year and i OWE money???????
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Actually, this would clearly be the fault of the conservatives. Liberals are in favor of redistributive and progressive income tax structures which would place less burden on the lower classes and more on the upper classes. Conservative efforts such as Bush's tax cut plan (which focuses almost exclusively on the rich) force a higher percentage of government revenue to come from the already overburdened working class. This is especially true when you notice that the federal budget shortfall is often shifted to the states who then blatantly increase taxation on the poor via sales tax, etc.
And from a larger perspective, it is understandable how you and other members of the working class could be lured by the Republicans' campaign promises for tax cuts. Americans do pay too much to the government - considering the fact that they get almost no social benefits from this money. Due to conservative efforts, a tragic amount of the government budget is spent on war or corporate handouts. Corporate welfare amounts to almost five times as much as social welfare.
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12:12 am - goddamn liberals
i make less that 25k a year and i OWE money???????
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Actually, this would clearly be the fault of the conservatives. Liberals are in favor of redistributive and progressive income tax structures which would place less burden on the lower classes and more on the upper classes. Conservative efforts such as Bush's tax cut plan (which focuses almost exclusively on the rich) force a higher percentage of government revenue to come from the already overburdened working class. This is especially true when you notice that the federal budget shortfall is often shifted to the states who then blatantly increase taxation on the poor via sales tax, etc.
And from a larger perspective, it is understandable how you and other members of the working class could be lured by the Republicans' campaign promises for tax cuts. Americans do pay too much to the government - considering the fact that they get almost no social benefits from this money. Due to conservative efforts, a tragic amount of the government budget is spent on war or corporate handouts. Corporate welfare amounts to almost five times as much as social welfare.