Tax Cuts for the Rich: Defend the position

So now that the Republicans are moving away from the ACA and onto the tax reforms, I want understand why you all support tax cuts.

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1) I agree that the government takes too much in taxes (both federal and state). The people should have more access to the money they earn.

2) What is "the Rich" as defined by DEM and GOP media. I always assumed they were talking about 300K to beyond millionaire status. If I am wrong, please provide a more appropriate salary range for my understanding.

At what range do people "not pay taxes at all' (ie get tax returns on their W-2) . Why do most people get taxed if the money is just going to be returned to them?

If I am right, then the question becomes, why do you support tax cuts for only a very small sector of American society. If it does not really benefit the "working class", why should the average worker bother?

3) Your position of "they will create more jobs" does not answer the question 'what types of jobs will be created and what qualifications will they require'

For example, if the goal is get more factories workers at $4/hr with no benefits, obviously you are going have difficulty finding workers in 1st world countries.

I feel that many GOP are being disingenuous about the realities of working conditions in various countries and corporate tax avoidance. This is not about 'fairness' as much it is checks and balances between the worker and their employer. I am not pro-Union, but I am pro-Employee Protection


Tax Cuts for the Rich Dont Directly create Jobs

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So, you'd think that if you cut the taxes on poor and low-wage people, they'd have more money, which they'd spend, and it would stimulate the economy. That's true - except for one thing, which is the germ of the lie that rich people use to get everybody to think that tax cuts for rich people help economies.

And here's that lie. While it would be true that if you cut income taxes on the poor and low-end working people so they had more money in their pockets it would stimulate the economy, it's impossible. Why is it impossible? Because, as Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney point out as often as possible, the bottom 47 percent of American workers make so little money that they don't pay any income taxes. So there's nothing to cut. When Republicans talk about tax cuts, they're not talking about tax cuts for working people.

But what about cutting taxes on rich people? Wouldn't that give them more money to spend - or even invest - which would stimulate economic growth? That's the core, of course, of the tax religion of Limbaugh (who has a reported $400 million contract) and Romney (who was reported to have paid no taxes for years on hundreds of millions in income). Cut rich people's taxes, they say, and the good times will roll!

The thing that makes this a lie is that rich people behave differently from poor and working class people. When they get extra money from tax cuts, they don't spend it. After all, they already have pretty much everything they may want or need.
Instead, as we learned about Mitt Romney in 2012, they open bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland and stash that money for future generations. Or, they'll buy an American company, like Sensata, and move it to China where they can get cheaper labor and pollute all they want. Or, since they got the money relatively easily and don't worry so much about losing it - after all, their basic needs are already covered - they gamble with it. They call it "investing in real estate and the market," but it's really just gambling.
None of this, of course, translates into America jobs.

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High Tax Rates on Rich Dont Hurt Overall Economy