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Petition to Congress: No bailout! Cut tax rates!

Submitted by ralphbenko on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 17:07
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Let's see what happens when we combine Supply Side with Web 2.0:   http://reagan2petition.ning.com/ ... The Petition...  To the Congress of the United States of America: Cutting marginal tax rates across the board lofted America from austerity to prosperity. Reagan understood this, we understand this, and we appeal to you to take a stand for it. By joining Reagan2Petition.ning.com, we sign this petition demanding your support * for using the "bailout" funds to cut marginal tax rates by 30% AND * to cut the payroll tax back to its original "pay as you go" rates. Put America back on the road to Prosperity. Sign the Petition today.....

Just click on a hyperlink above.  ;  )

Ralph Benko

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Submitted by NextRightNando on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 17:43.

I see on your blog the line "Cutting marginal tax rates is the proven recipe for restoring vibrant prosperity." Links to/summary of this proof would be a great addition.

May i recommend that you read

Submitted by ralphbenko on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 17:55.

Wealth and Poverty, by George Gilder, and The Way the World Works, by Jude Wanniski.

There's oceans of data supporting this claim.  As you find it, feel free to post it!

 

Ralph Benko

Founder,

The Prosperity Caucus

Washington, DC

My point is

Submitted by NextRightNando on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 19:22.

My point is if you want people to sign your petition you need to provide at least a few setences/paragraphs supporting your claim that this is the solution to the country's current crisis.

Supporting the claim.

Submitted by ralphbenko on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:52.

The site itself, http://reagan2petition.ning.com/, says:

Remember 1980?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average at 759. Less than 10% of its current value. The unemployment rate around 7%. Almost 40% higher than today. Inflation rate? 13%. Around triple of today's. A misery index of 20%. More than double today's. In the White House: Jimmy Carter. Hectoring America for its "malaise." Then what happened? We elected Ronald Reagan president. Reagan cut the income tax rate 30% across the board. And stood behind Paul Volcker's strengthening the dollar. What happened next? Prosperity happened. America took off and never looked back. Now, looking back, we remember the recipe for Prosperity. We appreciate the need to assist ordinary citizens in their time of hardship. The best way to do that is by using the bailout money to bring back Prosperity. The $700 billion appropriated for bailouts more than covers the costs of: A renewed 30% across-the-board tax rate cut. AND a payroll tax cut. We know this works. We did it before. It worked. It will work. Reagan 2.0: a 30% across-the board tax cut. And a payroll tax cut. Sign this petition for Congress. Make your voice heard now. No bailouts! Tax rate cuts! Bring Prosperity Back.

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Some of us (we call ourselves supply siders but some call it voodoo or trickledown economics) are fully pesuaded that cutting too-high tax rates is instrumental for establishing a nation's prosperity. 

If you're not persuaded, and you don't care to research it to make a judgment,

do NOT sign the Petition to cut tax rates at http://reagan2petition.ning.com/!

It's OK, really!  Start your own petition to spend the $700B any way you like.  Or just leave it to the good judgment of our elected officials.  Hey!  Why the heck not?

It's just, we're for using the money to fund a 30% across-the-board income tax rate cut, that's all.

You don't have to be.  It's a free country.  Sort of.

Yes, but it isn't 1980

Submitted by NextRightNando on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 21:21.

It isn't 1980. And it isn't enought just to say "it works" - why does it work?

 

 Just more of the same from

Submitted by In between on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 18:48.

 Just more of the same from delusional republicans. 8 years of this with deficits, debt, the loss of jobs, and a recession. Even Reagan created the deficits and Bush 41 had to raise taxes. Bush 43 does the same and we have deficits and debt and I see no prosperity.  Except for the rich.

Maybe you can give me the numbers after 8 years of supply side trickle down voodoo economics.

What are the unemployment numbers?

How many people are now without healthcare?

What is our economic growth?

What was the surplus when Bush came into office?

What is the deficit today?

What is the national debt today towards 8 years ago?

Hi In between...

Submitted by ralphbenko on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:41.

Delusional Republicans?  Smile when you say that oxymoron, Pardner.

I infer your preference is the bailout of Wall Street, the Big 3, etc.  In that case, do NOT sign this petition! Cutting tax rates would appear antithetical to your views. 

By the way, are you in the "right" place?  Just checking, you seem... like you might ... have taken a ... wrong turn in your browser window.  Patrick, give this customer a shot of red eye, on me.

The DailyKos saloon is down the road a ways....  Across the street from Arianna's honkytonk.

Can't miss 'em.  You'll feel right at home there, trust me.  They talk just like you.  Pardner.

Ralph

 I guess you can't give me

Submitted by In between on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 20:57.

 I guess you can't give me any numbers. And the numbers started showing up long ago, like 5 years ago on the deficits and debt, and still climbing. I was not talking about the financial crisis. The specifics of supply side trickle down voodoo economics do not add up.