GOP Poverty Creators Plan to Increase Taxes on 22.9 Million Poor and Middle Class Families

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/gop-poverty-creators-plan-increase-taxes-22-9-million-poor-middle-class-families.html

GOP Poverty Creators Plan to Increase Taxes on 22.9 Million Poor and Middle Class Families

By: Rmuse
July 29th, 2012


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Republicans are waging class war for the wealthy, and they are using the government and tax increases to drive more Americans into poverty. Increased taxes coupled with eliminating health care and housing and heating assistance for seniors, disabled Americans, and children will doom tens-of-millions to a life of dire poverty if the poor can even survive. However, maybe that is their plan; kill off the poor through starvation and ill-health to make room for middle class families they are sending into poverty to repeat the cycle until only the wealthy remain. It is the ultimate expression of death by government under Republican leadership and it is the end of the America that was the envy of the world and a source of pride for all Americans. It is also evil. Pure unadulterated evil for the people’s representatives to deliberately drive as many Americans into poverty just to enrich the two-percent with lower taxes to relieve their burden. And worse, they are unburdening the one-percent that hides trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens to avoid paying any taxes on their investment income.

What is astounding is the number of poor and middle class Americans supporting Republican policies that will be their death knell, and it is down to their racist hatred of President Obama. There have been volumes written about the lunacy of people voting against their own self-interest, and despite knowledge they will suffer the effects of Republican policies, they still support giving everything to the rich. Much of the blame falls on the media who are remiss to inform the voters of the consequences of government by Republicans, but they are wholly owned and operated by the wealthiest corporations in the world so their malfeasance is borne of greed and self-preservation.

Whether Reagan knew when he preached that government is the people’s enemy that his party would fulfill his mantra is unknown, but government controlled by Republicans is the problem and source of all of America’s woes. They oppose healthcare, food assistance, education, public sector employees, women, seniors, children, environmental and consumer protections, fire and police protection, and equal rights laws that benefit all Americans at the same time they legislate religion and perpetual war for oil and profit. Now, they are making no secret that they intend to raise taxes on 98% of the population to help the poor rich people who, as McConnell puts it, are under a severe burden and will create jobs if Americans give them everything they have. It is difficult to quantify evil, but if there is a face of evil, it is the GOP and they will not finish until 98% of the population is at or near poverty and the wealthy get subsidies for being wealthy. That is the America Republicans and Romney intend to create if they control Congress and the White House, and if that eventuality comes to pass, then Reagan was right; government will be the problem that condemns 98% of the people to poverty, despair, and eventually death. It is the Republican version of the American Dream for a few and a nightmare for the rest.

[ProSense]

1. "GOP Poverty Creators"

The Republican plan increases the threshold for working families earning $13,300 annually to receive a child tax credit of $1,000, and will deny 8.9 million working-poor families, and 16.4 million children, $7.6 billion in assistance for 2013. The federal poverty level for a family of four is $23,050 annually so the GOP plan is a significant tax increase on every family living under the poverty level. The Earned Income tax credit is for working Americans, and those who qualify have at least one child. President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) increased the EIC specifically for families with three or more children from 40 percent to 45 percent of their qualifying income, and the Republican plan eliminates them affecting 6.5 million families, and 15.9 million children, for a loss of $3.4 billion in 2013. For the record, these tax increases affect families with children earning less than $50,000 annually, and hit tens-of-millions of working families.

...perfect description of these predators.

[madokie]

2. This is spot on and it is my biggest fear going into the future

I'm nearing my end but I've got grand kids and many nieces and nephews that will be feeling the brunt of these policies if we don't crush the pukes now, this time. For good.

[Scuba]

3. +1,000