I am pretty certain that we’ve all heard the following: “Cutting taxes
will create jobs.” Cutting taxes will save the future for our children.” ”Cutting
taxes will help small businesses, which create most of the jobs in the United
States, to grow and expand.” ”Raising taxes isn’t the answer, because the tax
dollars the government will receive from raising taxes isn’t enough to offset
government spending, which continues to increasingly spiral out of control.” Although
there are other similar perspective, these are these are the main views we
perceive when we observe this hologram from “the right.”
Here are some other views that should be
observed when you this hologram: 1. Twenty-six
states in the United States have republican governors. Most of them – especially
the ones that were elected in the 2010 mid-term election, (like Governor Scott
Walker of Wisconsin), cut corporate taxes; implemented lucrative corporate
incentives to encourage businesses to move to their states; and deregulated
environmental, social, and gender policies to promote small business expansion
and empowerment. 2. Most of these
republican governors cut entitlements, education, and public oversight (or the
regulatory agencies charged with enforcing health, safety, and environmental
standards.) 3. These republican governors
weakened or decimated workers’ unions. Several successful made their states “right to work
states,” which essentially means that workers are without the right to bargain
for decent wages, appropriate pay raises, and adequate health and retirement
benefits.
It is interesting to note that the
states in the United States with the biggest gap between rich Americans and
poor Americans are these republican states. They are also the states with the
largest numbers of Americans living below the poverty line and biggest numbers
of middle class workers whose real wages have declined. In these states the
middle classes are getting smaller, growing numbers of them – including those
living in the suburbs – are collecting Food
Stamps, and all indications are things are going to get worse, under the current
republican state and national policy, which cut corporate taxes, cut wages, cut
workers’ benefits, cut entitlements, and everything else that could help to
raise the standard of living for all Americans – especially the middle class.
During the presidential debates, Mitt
Romney told us about the plight of the middle class I described in the previous
paragraph. He failed, however, to mention that the problem is most prevalent in
the states governed by republicans – the states that cut taxes and implemented
the plan he proposed.
I think that I
have a better plan: Let’s make it our
goal to ensure that 26 republican governors are fired from their jobs in
2014!!!
Apparently they do not understand that
“greed” isn’t a sound economic policy!!!!
by
James A. Porter
