$1.3 trillion in tax cuts in 2001 by Bush administration for the wealthiest

[Cleita]

in America. Why can't Congress work on reversing those tax cuts and getting the money they need for jobs that way? What am I not seeing or isn't the money that we the working class earn important too?

Edited for link: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/07/recovery-v-bush-tax-cuts/

[peace13]

1. And why don't we see the total debt for the Iraq war anywhere?

These to figures make the stimulus seem like nothing. And here we sit doing nothing while things get worse! We don't see it because it would look bad for the folks in DC.

[yourout]

2. As much as I would like to see this I think eliminating the offshore tax dodges we be the first.....

step in the right direction. The Pukes would have a hard time selling the need for the offshore tax shelters to the average Joe and Jane.

[jtrockville]

3. Why didn't those tax cuts create any jobs?

Oh yeah... tax cuts for the wealthy don't create jobs. They just excuse the wealthy from paying their fair share.

[Cleita]

4. I guess you can't trickle down from a sealed jar. n/t

[Hansel]

9. I beg to differ. They created plenty of jobs, in India and China.

It was just the little extra spending money they needed to buy up foreign factories and make a ton of ka-ching off of child and slave labor.

[chollybocker]

5. That was just the beginning

of the great transfer of wealth that occurred over the past eight years.

[Cleita]

6. I think we were robbed and we need to make them give it back to us. n/t

[tbyg52]

7. >>isn't the money that we the working class earn important too?

No. Not to our corporate masters.

[GeorgeGist]

8. And Obama has the audacity to say that the government ...

is the only resource available.

You don't have to be a visionary to see where the resources money is; you have to be blind.

[havocmom]

10. good questions in this thread

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