On April 14th Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-09) went on MSNBC to defend his position on the budget debate, and aside from the standard Republican rethoric, the false claim that taxes are too high and keep getting higher, he also belives Obama started class warfare.
Graves was referencing Obama's April 13th speech from George Washington University where he revealed to America his apparently divisive opinion that when poor Americans are taxed harder than rich, something is amiss.
It's not much of a mystery to those who do a bit of fact checking, which apparently Graves is not a fan of, that taxes are lower than they have been in 50 years. This is especially true for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
But someone has to pay for things like Medicare, Medicade and Social Security. Someone has to pay for two and a half wars. Someone has to pay for roads and buses, cops and firefighters and teachers. And slashing and burning the salaries and payouts of state funded workers and programs is, for some reason, the only foreseeable way Republicans can find to solve the budget problem.
They have also somehow turned raising taxes on the rich into a socialist agenda, making the patriotic thing to do carving out as much from the public sector and middle/lower class as possible.
But Republicans are certain about one thing. We should never punish the rich, and especially Wall Street, for their success.
After all, according to Graves, none of our current debt and economic stagnation can be contributed to Wall Street. None. It's all high spending on things like middle school teacher health benefits, and making sure another generation of Americans is able to retire.
Anyone who says otherwise is just conducting class warfare.
Graves was referencing Obama's April 13th speech from George Washington University where he revealed to America his apparently divisive opinion that when poor Americans are taxed harder than rich, something is amiss.
It's not much of a mystery to those who do a bit of fact checking, which apparently Graves is not a fan of, that taxes are lower than they have been in 50 years. This is especially true for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
But someone has to pay for things like Medicare, Medicade and Social Security. Someone has to pay for two and a half wars. Someone has to pay for roads and buses, cops and firefighters and teachers. And slashing and burning the salaries and payouts of state funded workers and programs is, for some reason, the only foreseeable way Republicans can find to solve the budget problem.
They have also somehow turned raising taxes on the rich into a socialist agenda, making the patriotic thing to do carving out as much from the public sector and middle/lower class as possible.
But Republicans are certain about one thing. We should never punish the rich, and especially Wall Street, for their success.
After all, according to Graves, none of our current debt and economic stagnation can be contributed to Wall Street. None. It's all high spending on things like middle school teacher health benefits, and making sure another generation of Americans is able to retire.
Anyone who says otherwise is just conducting class warfare.
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