Can we change the subject? Part I

Can we change the subject?

 

 

Oh, if it was only that easy.  If we could just move on an ignore the destruction that has become the last four years that would be wonderful.  If only....but we can't.  We Americans, we citizens have to live here, have to deal with and try to over come the many road blocks put in place by the ever growing and ever reaching Federal Government.

 

 

 

from the debate

 

"This is where budgets matter, because budgets reflect choices," President Obama said.

If this were true, if budgets mattered and reflect choice then what choice is being made by a sitting president that has not passed a budget?  Can we change the subject?



 "First, we've got to improve our education system and we've made enormous progress drawing on ideas both from Democrats and Republicans that are already starting to show gains in some of the toughest to deal with schools." (President Obama)

 Then why, when school choice was working in Washington DC did you and your voting block decide to end it?  You want to make education better by removing items that make it better?  Maybe we should just change subjects.



"On energy, Governor Romney and I, we both agree that we've got to boost American energy production, and oil and natural gas production are higher than they've been in years." (President Obama)

Then why are drilling permits down?  Why are we making it harder to drill for our own oil?  Why is the production increase in both oil and natural gas occurring on private land; not Federal?  Can we move onto another subject?



"And we do have a difference, though, when it comes to definitions of small business. Under -- under my plan, 97 percent of small businesses would not see their income taxes go up. Governor Romney says, well, those top 3 percent, they're the job creators, they'd be burdened." (President Obama)

reply...

"But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half -- half of all the people who work in small business. Those are the businesses that employ one-quarter of all the workers in America. And your plan is to take their tax rate from 35 percent to 40 percent." (Governor Romney)

Why would we raise taxes on businesses?  In what world must one live to be able to believe that businesses pay taxes?  How infantile and near sighted does one have to be in order to believe that taxes on businesses are not simply passed to the consumer?  A business does not exist in a vacuum; the prices of their products include the costs, ie...TAXES!   If a family has their taxes raised, am I to believe they will not feel it?  It will not affect their wealth?  Maybe we should just move on.



"Bill Clinton tried the approach that I'm talking about. We created 23 million new jobs. We went from deficit to surplus. And businesses did very well." (President Obama)

That would be a Conservative Senate combined with lowering tax rates and probably the most important item: reducing the dividend rate.  That would be the rate that "evil rich" people pay on their invested income.  What Clinton and Newt did was to set rates where the investors would invest.  We know what happened, the growth of the Internet followed.  Maybe we should move on.



"You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. The CBO says we'll have a trillion-dollar deficit each of the next four years. If you're re-elected, we'll get to a trillion-dollar debt." (Governor Romney)

Not sure this even needs a comment; next subject please.



"The oil industry gets $4 billion a year in corporate welfare. Basically, they get deductions that those small businesses that Governor Romney refers to, they don't get." (President Obama)

reply...

"First of all, the Department of Energy has said the tax break for oil companies is $2.8 billion a year. And it's actually an accounting treatment, as you know, that's been in place for a hundred years. Now...And in one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world." (Governor Romney)


The breaks in question are available by many businesses, not just oil.  How about this; no breaks, no gifts, no subsidies for any business or producer.  Let the free market work exercised by the Consumer whom I will refer to as the citizen.  If green energy cannot stand on its own then why do I have to pay a solar company to keep its doors open?  Why am I sending my children's college fund to Solyndra?  We definitely need to move to a new subject.


Part II, tomorrow.