Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Posted by:
Tom DeLay
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3:56 PM
A Republican friend sent this e-mail to me and I thought it would serve as useful talking points for my friends at Townhall.com....
When the GOP last controlled both houses of Congress:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since Democrats took over Congress in 2006:
1) Consumer confidence plummeted;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soared to?over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
And on Taxes...
Verify this information at...
Clinton: Single making 30K - tax $8,400...
Bush: Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Clinton: Single making 50K - tax $14,000... Bush: Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Clinton: Single making 75K - tax $23,250... Bush: Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Clinton: Married making 60K - tax $16,800... Bush: Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Clinton: Married making 75K - tax $21,000... Bush: Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Clinton: Married making 125K - tax $38,750... Bush: Married making 125K - tax $31,250
And it's important to note that both Democrat candidates will push to return to the higher tax rates!
Really, Obama said something to that effect the other day, that "the rich" (of course) would pay what they did in "the 90's" (you know, when the media was willing to acknowledge a good economy simply because a Democrat was in the WH)
But, if you take a look at the above chart, it looks like EVERYBODY will be paying A LOT MORE TAXES if Barack gets his way.
But, of course, just blame everything on rich people and evil Republicans, and you'll get away with anything, right? Even if it's raising taxes on every economic class in America...while saying your for "the forgotten man" |
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Uh HUH, Mr. Delay.... but you left a few salient points OUT of your post.... the $9.7 TRILLION DOLLAR NATIONAL DEBT... Most of it PILED UP ON YOUR WATCH IN THE HOUSE.....
Yup, the Dems are TAX and SPEND. Heinous.
BUT: Your ilk is worse: BORROW AND SPEND.
Take tour offal and post it elsewhere, Mr DeLay, where duped people dont know any better !!!!!!! |
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Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich and their little parrot, Sean Hannity (that brilliant college drop out) are so VENAL.
For the record, I am NOT a Democrat.
But the Republicans are SO MUCH worse.... and have done incalcuable damage to this republic.
From 2001 until Nov. 2006.... they controlled the ENTIRE Govt. and in that short of a time... they have bankrupted this nation... and NOW THEY - THEY - are going to run on "lower taxes" ????? After they took the national credit card out for a spin and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY... did not rasie taxes to PAY FOR A WAR....
Nope... all of you and YOUR children will. Not DeLay or Cheney or Bush, or the rest of these criminals.
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Despite the responding Dogmatic responses, Delay is correct on this. The responses from "Just Me" are typical dogmatic attacks that indicate minimal knowledge of economics. Everyone knows that reducing taxes increases revenues, it has happened every time its been done, Kennedy did it, Reagan did it, and George W did it. Revenues increased in every case, and in Bush's case, even with a war, the 2007 deficit was at a five year low quickly recovering from 9/11 and the end of the dot com bust. Since the Democrats have been in control of the governing body that spends US Dollars, the deficit is skyrocketing, along with the stats Mr. Delay mentions. If taxes are raised, revenues will go down, spending will inevitably go up (because Democrats believe they are "paying for it" when in actuality they are doing the opposite) and the deficit will continue its current trend, simple economics. And Government Health Care.....
Sigh. |
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You're really trying to blame your successors for reaping the harvest of fiscal irresponsibility you've sown?
Iraq, the massive borrowing of the government, the easy credit policies of the Fed, the laxity of oversight in regards to mortgage commodities all started on your watch and only recently have come to fruitition.
Regardless of who the next president is, he will probably spend all of his first term dealing with these consequences as well as the lovely Medicare and Social Security unfunded liabilities you left for the next generation to deal with.
Thanks for that, by the way. |
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Dread,
If you care to check your facts, easy credit policies, laxity of oversight to mortgage commodities and unfunded social security liabilities were in place long before 2000. In fact the current administration has done more than previous administrations to curb Americans "habit" with regards to credit (increasing the required percentage of payment). I also seem to remember several attempts to address Social Security that were demagogued right out of consideration by Democrats. Yet what have they done or proposed? The 2006 Congress promised great change, especially in the first 100 days, what have they attempted? Short answer, Nothing. |
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