Red states show exactly who is going to 'sacrifice' and who is going to 'share'

[Judi Lynn]

Wed Mar 16, 2011 at 07:00 PM EDT.
Red states show exactly who is going to 'sacrifice' and who is going to 'share'

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(Source: William Domhoff)

Corporations are people, too, and a new report by ThinkProgress illustrates just how people-oriented 12 Republican-dominated states are. It's true that somebody will have to pay for this orientation. But from the perspective of governors such as Chris Christie, Rick Snyder, Terry Branstad and Tom Corbett, those somebodies have been leeching off the taxpayers for too long. And they, and like-minded governors and state legislatures are determined to do something about it by cutting corporate taxes, laying off public employees and slashing services. Their idea of shared sacrifice is for American workers to sacrifice and the wealthy to share the spoils.

The ideology behind this is nothing new. The ability to make it stick is. And if the targets of these class-war attacks engage in self defense? Plead union intimidation and call the cops. A couple of examples from the report:

IOWA: Gov. Tom Terry Branstad (R) began this year proposing a budget that included a $200 million tax cut on commercial property taxes and corporate income but would freeze spending on schools, cut $42 million to state universities and lay off “hundreds” of state workers. Since then, the Governor has already begun laying off state nursing home workers and frozen funding for mental health services. The budget is now moving through the politically divided legislature, where Republican-controlled House committees have gone even further, approving tax refunds for upper-income Iowans while cancelling infrastructure investments, eliminating preschool for 4-year-olds, closing Iowa workforce development offices, and making even deeper cuts to public universities. ...

SOUTH CAROLINA: Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has proposed ending the state’s corporate income tax, even while she calls for cutting physical education, K-12 schools, and Medicaid. Haley has received pushback from Republican colleagues: last week the legislature rejected her plan to force state employees to pay more for health insurance.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. The bubble can only last so much longer

and then everything may turn red

[wilt the stilt]

2. These people are morons

They actually think that cutting taxes will generate jobs. Very few of these morons ever worked in business. Scott walker is a classic example. He worked at IBM in the late eighties. He worked there 2 years and I can guarantee you he was a typewriter salesman. If he was gone in 2 years I'll guarantee he was fired for non performance. You really have to work hard to be fired by IBM in those days. Then he went to the Red Cross(not a business.

These are the same idiots who laughed at the north when they stole the"union businesses" in the sixties and seventies only to see those jobs go overseas.

[yurbud]

8. they don't even think that, it's just an excuse.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Will the American public be awake by Nov. 2012?

[MedicalAdmin]

4. Awake as in aware?

RU fucking kidding? Of course not. This country is done.

[louslobbs]

5. I want to believe you are wrong, I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right.

Lou

[MedicalAdmin]

6. I feel the same way.

I weep and then I remember that beer is my friend.

happy st paddies day. Let the Pad-Wackery begin.

[louslobbs]

7. Same to you friend.

It's nice to have friends.
Lou

[Dan]

9. I believe so, but it may lead to a political path

that we may not long enjoy, as a nation. There are historical precedents for these times we are enjoying that would lead one to believe that there will be an awakening.