Sunday, November 23, 2008

Obama Economically Foolish

President elect Barack Obama is not going to increase taxes on the rich, and he is being pressured by republicans to reduce capital gains and corporate taxes. He has no option: He must increase all of those taxes because doing so will increase jobs. And right now in the middle of a recession is the time to do it.

Obama seems to be heading economically center-right, with a dash of green economics thrown in as a concession to the progressives of the Democratic Party, such as Henry Waxman. But this economy needs to head hard left before it can move back to the right.

Decreasing taxes on the rich will only curtail job growth. Bush tried to do this; and from June 2001 to now less than 3 million private sector jobs were created, an all time low. If Obama wants to continue a policy of low job growth and declining family income, reducing the taxes on the rich is the way to go.

See the article below on why I voted for Obama and you will discover why tax cuts for the rich destroy jobs.

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