Lower Taxes but less money in our pockets... Is that the Republican way?

Question

I get so tired of Republicans claiming "lower taxes" and "smaller government".

Did Bush really make a "smaller government"?

Did Bush really save you any money (if you weren't already rich)?

My student loans are now impossible for me to pay.
The only jobs in my area are telemarketing and fast food.

Bush's "conservative" America sucks.

Answer 1

My only two questions are:

How much do you make?
AND
How much income tax did you pay last year?

I'm guessing not much.

Bush is the least conservative Republican in a long time. He just happens to be very religious based in his decisions. Personally, it like to see someone less religious and more fiscally conservative instead of morally conservative and fiscally liberal like the current president.

Or you could go with morally liberal and fiscally liberal--vote for socialism.

Complaints about sales and property taxes belong at the LOCAL LEVEL. The federal gov't has two major taxes that they take. Income taxes which are very much burdened by the rich and (Medicare/Medicaid/SS)--FICA which has been determined to be "untouchable."

So don't blame Bush and Repubs for your local governments increases in taxes.

Answer 2

When you factor in the cost of living that has risen versus the amount of money we get back from lowering taxes, what we have gotten in the past 6 years is a tax INCREASE.

Most people sit by and say "Damn, I'm sure glad I'm getting some money back from the government" while not realizing that they're paying more for the services they used to get. Under Bush we have had both a tax increase AND a record deficit. How does that sit with Republicans?

Answer 3

the conservative approach can be a good one, when not filled with special interests like Bush's government... Notice one thing, the cost of gasoline, tripled, the cost of health care doubled, the cost of local property taxes have almost doubled, school systems across the country are losing sports teams and arts programs, all so the average median person gets an extra 200 bucks to pay for these increases and the average rich person gets a million(ask Warren Buffet how he feels about Bush's cuts, he's a pretty stand up guy and a great example of how we've been sold a bill of goods)

Answer 4

Sounds about right for me. Isn't it great that after 9/11 the chimp said he was going to make the government less bureaucratic and smaller and more efficient. He dismantled INS, took all those employees and founded DHS. Not one lost their job because they were doing a bad job. That new agency was the biggest and most bureaucratic agency ever formed and America has nothing to show for it, no installed fence around the borders, no reduced numbers of illegals coming across the borders, and no real drug busts. They did arrest our own border patrol agents that were arresting illegals and getting them deported. So what exactly happened? NOTHING that any government watcher can pinpoint. Sounds republican to me!

Answer 5

I'm not going to argue about the economic situation where you are, but, did you ever think some of that might be due to local politics?? Maybe worth checking out before next election. My question to you would be, if you are so bad off now, you think higher taxes are going to put more money in your pocket?? How so?

Answer 6

yeah i agree. Though what is even more baffling to me, is the continued, and unconditional support the republican party still gives Bush with Iraq. Voting for a republican in 2008 means another 4 years of 160k+ soliders living in that hell hole.

Answer 7

Bush's policies made it more economical for my old job to go to India, so it did, then all the jobs like it followed.

Luckily his "conservative" policies also increased the size of the gov't, so now I work for them.

WTF?

Unfortunately it was a huge pay decrease (good one Bush...I now make less than I used to pay in taxes....hahaha)

Answer 8

Bin Laden and other terrorist living in our country...Is that the Democrat way?
Selling of sensitive technical secrets to China...Is that the Democrat way?
Lifetime deployments to babysit Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo...Is that the Democrat way?
Getting slaughtered in Somalia because of the failure to NOT go 'all' in and instead just attempt to do the job with the bare minimum...Is that the Democrat way?
Flip-Floping and lying...Is that the Democrat way?
Welfare and support of the lazy...Is that the Democrat way?

Cry baby. People like you make our country weak. Like you. You should have joined the military and had your student loans taken care of and your ungratefulness for our current President 'fixed'.

Answer 9

The Republican way is to take all the benefits away from the middle income class and give it all to the Millionaire's

Answer 10

You'd have a harder time finding a job with a democrat in charge, more taxes = more cutbacks and less employees