I heard a stark difference in listening to Barack Obama talk to ‘all of America’ saying that he would give a $1,000 tax credit to American families with an income under $250,000 and listening to Sarah Palin talk to ‘just her constituents’. I guess, Palin assumes ‘all’ the Republican Party’s constituents make over $250,000 as Palin spoke in a generalization, that Barack Obama will raise their taxes, as though she thinks it doesn’t matter if she acknowledges her own constituents who make under $250,000?
Palin thinks she can win this race with her constituents by simply saying that the Democratic Party will raise their taxes like McCain thinks he can win this race by simply saying he is nominating a woman for Vice President.
I think there has been a long term Republican GOP tax strategy for years, which they have viewed as a no lose strategy rewarding either privatization or ideas of political sabotage that thanks to George Bush’s mishandling, has now starkly changed.
I think part of the Republican tax strategy was to cut huge amounts of taxes, and offset it by cutting needed government program funding in the government’s budget, like cutting some health program funding for our Armed Forces recently revealed by the media. This would force our military personnel to privately pay for more and more for their own health care (even without pay increase) fulfilling Republican’s leadership’s long term agenda towards privatization.
The Republican GOP also knew that if the Democratic Party might have taken over, the Democrats might have been forced to roll back their tax cuts (sometimes perceived as raising some taxes) to recapture drastically dropped government revenue for funding necessary government programs like the military’s health care programs.
So exploiting cuts in government funding with being drastic, as well as cutting taxes, was part of the strategy that had sometimes worked for the Republican GOP unbeknownst to their constituents. Where then they could have used the Democratic Party maybe needing roll back their tax cuts for needed established government programs as a political weapon in future elections. Even though the Republican GOP are the ones sometimes instigating renewing their ‘yesterday’s' cut taxes in forcing ‘tomorrows’ tax roll backs.
Now, after the Bush Administration rushed to give billions of dollars in tax cuts to America’s wealthiest and corporations, my guess is that the Bush Administration probably was not being careful enough to ‘slowly’ cut taxes to build on the GOP’s long term structured tax agenda! So now the Democratic Party can capitalize financially and politically on the mere tax roll back of this irresponsibly lost government revenue along with ‘not’ renewing the thousands of government contracts that Republican leadership have exploited.
Recapturing this revenue allows for Barack Obama to CUT SOME TAXES, AT THAT! As well as providing the financial foundation base for the funding of the Barack Obama's ‘insurance’ program that every American has ‘health insurance’, which is more like ‘assurance of health care insurance’, isn’t it?
