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I’m curious — and I’m not kidding in the least — about the Republican party’s fascination with tax breaks for the very rich. (And I’m a lifelong Republican.)
You don’t hear very much from the GOP about saving the rich to save the rest of us or how it would work or why it’s one of the chief supports of party doctrine. Mostly, it’s just Democrats and their appointed mouthpieces in the media going on and on about how these proposed tax cuts benefit the enormously wealthy much more than they benefit the rest of us. The only conclusion I made for the longest time was that all the hullabaloo was just the Democrats in whine mode.
I’m not so sure now. No university, no think tank, no government agency has presented any data suggesting that the gap between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest is getting any smaller. In fact, the gap is widening, and not just between the poorest and the richest. America’s middle class, the engine of our economy, is seeing the distance between itself and the rich increase as well.
It’s also becoming increasingly hard for the GOP, my party, to hide the aid and protection they give to the very rich. And really, when the nation is in such dire straits and the bulk of its residents are struggling to make ends meet, why are the rich not paying their fair share? Why do Republicans so jealously guard their wealthy friends?
I’m curious — and I’m not kidding in the least — about the Republican party’s fascination with tax breaks for the very rich. (And I’m a lifelong Republican.)
You don’t hear very much from the GOP about saving the rich to save the rest of us or how it would work or why it’s one of the chief supports of party doctrine. Mostly, it’s just Democrats and their appointed mouthpieces in the media going on and on about how these proposed tax cuts benefit the enormously wealthy much more than they benefit the rest of us. The only conclusion I made for the longest time was that all the hullabaloo was just the Democrats in whine mode.
I’m not so sure now. No university, no think tank, no government agency has presented any data suggesting that the gap between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest is getting any smaller. In fact, the gap is widening, and not just between the poorest and the richest. America’s middle class, the engine of our economy, is seeing the distance between itself and the rich increase as well.
It’s also becoming increasingly hard for the GOP, my party, to hide the aid and protection they give to the very rich. And really, when the nation is in such dire straits and the bulk of its residents are struggling to make ends meet, why are the rich not paying their fair share? Why do Republicans so jealously guard their wealthy friends?
