It comes down to the richest .1% of the population, who control most of the wealth and power, not wanting to pay taxes at a rate they did 15 years ago. Therefore, even though these absurdly wealthy bankers and investors pay tax rates that are extraordinarily low while they shift more money than ever away from the U.S., most Americans will suffer in a poor economy and the "solution" is to cut spending. So students, teachers, firefighters, basically everyone will have to enjoy less benefits and pay more for things because of the wealthiest population's interest in abusing tax loopholes, diverting money overseas, and enjoying extremely low tax rates.
It's not like the President hasn't been telling everyone that the richest teeny % of people aren't paying their share, there are just too many agendas in the arena.
Come on, do you really believe that? Just wait until you are successful and you end up having 60% of everything you make given to people who don't want to work and end up never paying into the system because our backwards tax code (of which the top 1% already pay the vast majority of taxes)
Taking more from those who actually work for a living and giving it to those who enjoy handouts doesn't work. Our President is tanking this country and tanking medicine as we know it. Wait until you are actually in practice and get to see how much of your money is wastind on lame gov't programs.
What we really need in this country is a little dose of self-resposibility and get off your couch and work to support your family! Pay for your own college. I don;t think the gov't should give free college to anyone with two hands and two feet.
It's not what I believe, if you would like to look up tax revenue statistics I can provide you with the resources. I paid for my own undergrad education with loans and a job and was not provided anything from my parents.
You really think that all, or even most of our tax money is just handed to "people who don't want to work?" Do you have any clue as to what the stats are? A very small amount of the gross tax revenue goes toward the people you are referring to.
This is not a dem/repub argument. This is a 99.9% of the population versus 0.1% of absurdly wealthy who do not pay their share and instead of being held responsible for the banking crisis, they influence politicians to cut education funding and tell everyone we have to spend less on things that benefit the majority of people.
The richest 400 people in the U.S. pay close to half the percentage of taxes they paid 15 years ago. The stats are similar for the rest of the top .1%.
Keep thinking that bankers and CEO's making $5 to $50 million a year while scamming the system and outsourcing most of our manufacturing jobs are the "hard-working" Americans, while everyone that receives a publicly funded education, didn't have mommy and daddy give them everything, or maybe grew up surrounded by drugs, crime and 2 crack head parents, is a lazy person. You really think public programs, unions and education funding are what is draining our system, killing jobs and creating a debt crisis? Look up the stats, get a clue and reconsider your opinions.
