akuma587 said:
fkusumot said:
bigjon said:
If you raise taxes on the rich they will have less money, and then fire one of there middle class workers. Then you will have a huge tax break for middle class seeing as you will have no income and be getting a check from the gov on unemployment. |
Really. Show me how that worked the last time Bush Sr. and Clinton raised taxes. Specifically, how the raising of taxes on the rich effected employment rates.
The corollary would be that tax cuts for the rich would lower the unemployment rate. Let me know how that's done since you've been alive.
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Indeed, if people make a claim of this nature without numbers to back them up (and unemployment numbers are pretty easy to get, just google or wikipedia for them), then it is pretty hard to believe them.
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I believe he might have been spouting a faux talking point. That would be sad to believe. bigjon has always been very good with the numbers and I would expect him to have them this time to unequivocally back him up. He's a smart guy and goes to a good school. I'm sure he won't let us down.
