As the Presidential Primaries begin to wind down, and we move ever closer to election 2008, two candidates - one Democrat, one Republican - will emerge from what has indeed been a rabid wolf pack this election cycle. Each, in their own right, in their own style, will take center stage together, it is hoped in a number of strong, meaningful and deeply informative debates, to give cause why they, and not the other, is the better, more qualified, candidate to be the next President of the United States of America. The candidate that answers correctly, whether or not raising taxes helps or hurts the economy will be the candidate we want to win the election, and ascend to the office of American President. The candidate that answers incorrectly we will want to lose, and descend into the depths of eternal obscurity.
The candidate that supports tax cuts will take this stand with the full understanding, knowledge and well documented evidence that cutting taxes always, always, always stimulates the economy, inspires job creation, encourages business growth and expansion, improves competition - and increases all of our earnings!
Conversely, the candidate that supports ending the Bush tax cuts and supports raising taxes will take this stand with the full understanding, knowledge and well documented evidence that raising taxes always, always, always weakens the economy, stifles job creation, discourages business growth and expansion, endangers competition - and robs us all of even more of our earnings!
And yet millions of us will vote for the latter candidate over the former! It's maddening, to say the least. The health and vitality of our economy depends on how much we are willing to reduce taxes, and the rate of taxation; and we need a President with the courage, the strength, the foresight and the willingness to stare down the opposition and demand an end to high taxation.
It is the cowardly position that says we must raise taxes, preferably (and usually, always) on the rich, because they either can afford to pay more, or because they are not paying their fair share. How pathetic! How unscrupulous. It is the rich that create jobs, not the poor. Or is that wrong? It is the rich that pay the salaries, not the poor. Or is that too wrong?
Everyone aspires to be wealthy. How many people aspire to be poor? And yet when we cast our vote for the other candidate this election, that is - the one who will raise our taxes, and infect our economy with a plague of deadly consequences, we will have cast our vote in favor of poverty for all, wealth for none. And the only ones left holding the money bags will be the ones we so unwittingly put in office to begin with; the very ones for whom, by law, are granted the power to levy taxes on us all. Ironic?