I am not an unreasonable person. However, the details can be the sticking point can't they....Such as....
This part, although a good sound byte, is not factual.
It is absolutely factual, Reagan raised tax rates for the middle class and lowered tax rates for the top income class:
"KRUGMAN: I’m referring to the Social Security Reform Act of 1983, which followed the recommendations of a commission led by Alan Greenspan. Its key provision was an increase in the payroll tax that pays for Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance.
For many middle- and low-income families, this tax increase more than undid any gains from Mr. Reagan's income tax cuts. In 1980, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, middle-income families with children paid 8.2 percent of their income in income taxes, and 9.5 percent in payroll taxes. By 1988 the income tax share was down to 6.6 percent—but the payroll tax share was up to 11.8 percent, and the combined burden was up, not down.
For those who don’t want to do the math, Krugman’s “middle-income families with children” were paying a combined burden of 18.4 percent by 1988, up from 17.7 percent in 1980. For these middle-class families, Reagan—who did reduce taxes overall—had actually raised their tax burden."
Krugman offers a useful point, counteracting a decade of spinning
This was followed by W. cutting taxes, but cut more for the wealthy than the middle class.
"Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study."
Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says - New York Times
Well, since wealth in this country is a fluid thing, in order for your meme here to be true you'd have to show where the wealth you are talking about is static.
Wealth has been getting more and more concentrated at the top over the last 3 decades. Most of us have noticed the pattern. Have you notice the 20 or so polls since January where a majority of Americans think the tax breaks for the rich should be eliminated? Have you noticed people protesting in the streets?
'trickle down' is a narrative constructed by the liberal left in this country. It implies a class structure to success so that the liberal can continually count on class warfare to divide into groups. Which is in the end the only way that the liberal can maintain any hope of political success.
Trickle down economics has been the policy the GOP has promoted for the last 30 years, and still promotes to this day, despite its failure! It worked well for those at the top but didn't trickle down to the middle class.
Some are sure, and those that truly need societal aid absolutely should receive such, but only under the strictest of circumstances. And not with unlimited incentive to remain on the dole. Those that are able to work, need to be trained and get to it rather than bleed me for my earned income.
A third of the 47% are seniors, the remainder don't make enough money to pay a great deal in taxes. If you want them to pay more taxes, they will need to be paid a living wage for full time work, which most conservatives seemed to be opposed to.
The problem with what we have now is a progressive system that also breeds class jealousy, and division. For as much as libs love to promote fairness, and justice, how is it either that some pay all while others pay nothing?
You need to study history. Our tax system is now less progressive than it was under Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford.
And yet another liberal talking point. I'll have to hand it to ya Cat, you sure know your pap.
History, its available for all that take the time to look.