Dave Burris, like many Republicans, thinks that people who pay taxes are suckers and losers. The very idea of paying their fair share of taxes to ensure our common defense or promote our general welfare burns their souls like a splash of holy water buring the devil.
Republican economics is underpinned by the notion that, through a variety of legal, shady and illegal schemes, rich people should be exempted from paying their fair share of taxes.
I say, after the Bush years, the rich can afford to pay up.
From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities via MYDD:
Average pre-tax incomes in 2006 jumped by about $60,000 (5.8 percent) for the top 1 percent of households, but just $430 (1.4 percent) for the bottom 90 percent, after adjusting for inflation, according to a new update in the groundbreaking series on income inequality by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Their analysis of newly released IRS data shows that in 2006, the shares of the nation’s income flowing to the top 1 percent and top 0.1 percent of households were higher than in any year since 1928.
You read that right: 1928.
As Charles Lamos points out a MYDD, “If the Republican goal of the last 40 years has been to undo the New Deal and the Great Society then by this measure the last 40 years have been a raging success.”
Under the pretense of being in favor of “economic growth,” Republicans like Dave say that they “frown on redistributive economic policies.” However, the evidence is clear that their policies are nothing but a trickle, if not a flood, up – with economic catastrophe and negative growth (expect for their off shore bank accounts) to show for it.