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statistics in the chart above show that 20 percent of income earners in the nation pay nearly 80 percent of all income taxes . Where is this middle class the Democrats keep talking about? Yet we never hear an end to the liberal chorus that cuts in the tax rates are "tax cuts for the rich." Liberals believe that the amount of control they can exert over your life is directly related to the amount of taxes they can take from your paycheck.
A favorite tactic of liberals is to instill among the bottom 80 percent of wage earners who only pay 20 percent of all income taxes the belief that tax cuts are only going to the rich. Who is this "rich" 20 percent who shoulder the majority of the tax burden? The top 20 percent of income earners are those who have average yearly earnings of just over $180,000. The top 40 percent of income earners have average yearly earnings of just over $75,000. Many of these "rich" people are small business owners who employ the majority of other wage earners in our country. Most of them would laugh at you if you called them "rich."
Virtually every decision individuals and businesses make about their futures is in some way related to the amount of money they have to spend. The more of your own money you get to keep determines the amount of control exerted over you by the federal government. The less control the federal government has over your life, the closer you are to achieving economic freedom.
It is no wonder, then, why the facts about the tax code and who actually pays taxes in our country are obscured and manipulated by politicians whose political futures depend on control of the economy and the process of taxation.
Just as the so-called Black leaders have instilled the groupthink mentality into a large percentage of the Black population, liberal leaders in Congress have attempted to instill a class warfare mentality in all citizens at the lowest levels of educational and economic achievement. The result is that instead of blaming Congress for enacting wrongheaded policies that discourage achievement, many of the uneducated and poor blame the rich for causing their lack of success.
The only way liberalism can survive as a viable policy alternative for the Democratic Party is if the citizens of this country continue to view themselves as members of downtrodden groups whose only hope for survival is more assistance from the federal government. The great irony, of course, is that liberal policies cause people to view themselves as members of groups and create the barriers that discourage educational attainment and economic freedom! The proponents of liberalism know this, but they hope a lot of people will never figure it out.
The good news is that a lot of people have figured it out. Conservatives know that the real path to success lies in the combination of education, individual initiative, and a federal government that is in the business of removing barriers to success.
Abraham Lincoln said, "You don't help the poor by hurting the rich." I might add that you help the poor by helping everybody.
It's Time to Wake Up!
I believe that the three great divides--the party divide , the racial divide , and the economic divide --polarize our nation. The liberal political ideology seeks to enact policies that divide us and attempts to control all aspects of society and all facets of our lives. If you think that sounds a lot like the tried-and-failed government systems of socialism and communism, you are correct.
The liberal, socialist ideology cannot exist among a society educated on the detrimental facts of liberal policies and the dynamics of elementary economics. That is why liberal politicians seek to herd the public into groups and pit those groups against each other, as if as citizens of the United States we do not all share the dream of educational and economic success. Liberal politicians do not share your dreams of success because your success and the success of your children and grandchildren
A favorite tactic of liberals is to instill among the bottom 80 percent of wage earners who only pay 20 percent of all income taxes the belief that tax cuts are only going to the rich. Who is this "rich" 20 percent who shoulder the majority of the tax burden? The top 20 percent of income earners are those who have average yearly earnings of just over $180,000. The top 40 percent of income earners have average yearly earnings of just over $75,000. Many of these "rich" people are small business owners who employ the majority of other wage earners in our country. Most of them would laugh at you if you called them "rich."
Virtually every decision individuals and businesses make about their futures is in some way related to the amount of money they have to spend. The more of your own money you get to keep determines the amount of control exerted over you by the federal government. The less control the federal government has over your life, the closer you are to achieving economic freedom.
It is no wonder, then, why the facts about the tax code and who actually pays taxes in our country are obscured and manipulated by politicians whose political futures depend on control of the economy and the process of taxation.
Just as the so-called Black leaders have instilled the groupthink mentality into a large percentage of the Black population, liberal leaders in Congress have attempted to instill a class warfare mentality in all citizens at the lowest levels of educational and economic achievement. The result is that instead of blaming Congress for enacting wrongheaded policies that discourage achievement, many of the uneducated and poor blame the rich for causing their lack of success.
The only way liberalism can survive as a viable policy alternative for the Democratic Party is if the citizens of this country continue to view themselves as members of downtrodden groups whose only hope for survival is more assistance from the federal government. The great irony, of course, is that liberal policies cause people to view themselves as members of groups and create the barriers that discourage educational attainment and economic freedom! The proponents of liberalism know this, but they hope a lot of people will never figure it out.
The good news is that a lot of people have figured it out. Conservatives know that the real path to success lies in the combination of education, individual initiative, and a federal government that is in the business of removing barriers to success.
Abraham Lincoln said, "You don't help the poor by hurting the rich." I might add that you help the poor by helping everybody.
It's Time to Wake Up!
I believe that the three great divides--the party divide , the racial divide , and the economic divide --polarize our nation. The liberal political ideology seeks to enact policies that divide us and attempts to control all aspects of society and all facets of our lives. If you think that sounds a lot like the tried-and-failed government systems of socialism and communism, you are correct.
The liberal, socialist ideology cannot exist among a society educated on the detrimental facts of liberal policies and the dynamics of elementary economics. That is why liberal politicians seek to herd the public into groups and pit those groups against each other, as if as citizens of the United States we do not all share the dream of educational and economic success. Liberal politicians do not share your dreams of success because your success and the success of your children and grandchildren
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