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Originally Posted by pan6467
A government must invest in the people to improve the tax bases. Something the Right seems to blow off. They think tax cuts for the sake of tax cuts will improve the tax base. But there is no incentive to improve the tax base and we are seeing it, in the form of jobs being shipped overseas, in the form of tax base erosion, in the form of higher deficits and trade imbalances.
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We had a nice little debate here until you started blaming the Right for all the governments financial problems.
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The government's #1 priority is the safety of the people it governs. That means educating them and giving them the chances to fulfiil their highest potential.
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Some would think "the safety of its people" would mean providing a national defense, not an education.
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We have lower paying jobs cutting into the tax base, small businesses going broke because the tax cuts given to places like Wal*Mart. And that eats away the tax base that was created by the mom and pop shops, their employees and the economic stimuli
they create.
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I guess you haven't seen the reports that show 2 years after wal-mart opens a new store there are More jobs in the area than before. And not just people working at Wal-mart either, other shops and services open near wal-mart. When I get a chance I'll post those findings for you.
Its funny that you keep taling about how the republicans aren't doing it right and aren't increasing the tax base. If thats true, then why were tax revenues up when tax rates fell these last 2 years?