Recently a study showing the damage the Bush Tax cuts did, emerged… It was offered to all major publications who refused to publish it. Hence is emerged through what has become one of the best news sources in America today… Al Jeezerah…
The author won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001… David Cay Johnston
The Bush tax cuts, touted as a harbinger of prosperity by the Republican Party, actually robbed each American taxpayer of $48,000 in pre-tax personal income during the twelve years of their existence, for a total of approximately $6.6 trillion dollars.
In other words, you do not have $48,000 you should have had… because of that party that does nothing… How much of a difference could that $48,000 have made to you? It would have been there too, but… sigh, well, you know, you can’t go back in time and give Al Gore the presidency….
“it would have been enough to pay off all the student loans in United States ($1.26 trillion), all the automobile loans ($892 billion) and all the credit card debt ($827 billion),” he noted. “After paying all that debt off and taking taxes into account, Americans still would have more than $2.4 trillion left in their pockets and bank accounts.” Per filer, that $2.4 trillion left would be a cool $17,454 dollars…!
What you CAN do is understand that as long as Republicans have enough people to block legislation anywhere, state, local, national, from changing this… It will continue. Republicans still, at this late date, only care about the top 1%…..(For example after fighting tooth and nail to keep $10 billion that was paid for from being used on our broken down bridges, the Republican House flipped and just passed a bill to add $267 billion dollars to the national debt in the form of a tax cut for the top 0.01% of taxpayers…. ) A $267 billion dollar tax cut for the elite of the top 1%, charged directly to the debt… Meaning your children for years will be paying back this debt for no other reason than make them even richer than they are now… But we can’t have our $10 billion to fix America’s worst bridges because that is too much debt…
These same people, Who, btw… received one whole third of all the accumulative wage increases from 2001 to 2012… a total of under 16,000 households…. roughly 16 city blocks in one city, somewhere in the entire expanse of America….
The rich got richer; the poor get poorer, and the Republicans get kookier…. So are you going to do something about it?
You can. Let everyone know you aren’t voting for anyone who still says we need to cut taxes… because it is your money they are taking.
Oh, can I borrow some of the $48,000, please?
What? You don’t have it?
kavips 
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July 13, 2014 at 10:16 am
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Catastrophic effects
Saying the republicans got kookier is too mild; one could say – they’ve gotten more evil.
Speaking of monetary interests, Al Gore as President, evil republican denial, the blocking of legislation, the creation of pretend news, the world’s children paying the price – try asking the 1% to stop destroying life on the planet. Their life’s rich and powerful, so no can do, peasants.
If deniers deny anthropogenic climate change is happening,
and legitimate earth scientists around the world acknowledge anthropogenic climate change is happening now
Are the earth’s natural systems being changed by man? Of course they are.
The self absorbed may choose not to notice that trees fail, ice melts, the seas rise, but nature (and legitimate men of science) know and are reacting to man’s vile assaults whether or not its lower life forms acknowledge the cause of the planet’s changes.
The planet will still be a planet, but it will react even if no life remains to acknowledge its change from the only known planet to sustain life, to a planet no longer offering her life sustaining natural resources, the very natural resources some viewed as industrial materials, sources of monetary wealth, vehicles for toxic waste disposal.
Some refuse to acknowledge earth’s natural resources as necessary pollution free air, drinkable water, tolerable temperatures for natural systems, good health, sustenance, renewal, life itself.
That minority (perhaps that morally offensive .01%) and their supporters financially committed to a known invalid posture, have decided to live their life in and for the moment, come anthropogenic climate change, hell and high water, by living and dying by the definition of evil.
So are folks going to do anything about something as tremendous as life on the planet that supports their life?
What can they do?
Don’t vote for anyone who still says, anthropogenic climate change is a liberal, socialist hoax, which includes nearly all republicans and some fossil fuel democrats and independents.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/business-leaders-say-climate-change-threatens-economy/