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The BartCop Tax Plan
The self-styled "President of the United States" says the American economy
is faltering
(mostly because of the lack of consumer confidence in him) and that
we need tax relief for all the people.
And we need to get the money to them right away, he says.
Smirk's plan offers a measely $600 loan to a family of 4 making
$50,000.
(Notice the report on Bush's windfall for the rich won't be in until
his second term.)
Seeing how his plan fails on both counts, I thought I'd offer a better
tax plan
that fits his criteria better than his plan.
There's one way we could give consumer confidence a boost, and, big
surprise,
the plan doesn't involve giving Smirk daddy's rich friends a trillion-dollar
windfall.
The BartCop Tax Plan
Rebate $1500 to every taxpayer two weeks before Thanksgiving.
Families with two workers could get $3000.
If Dad, Mom and two teenagers are paying taxes on $15,000 or more,
the family would get a rebate of $6,000 from the federal government.
Every person with income qualifies.
Retired people, people on Social Security - anybody with taxable income.
What could be more fair?
Think of the economic benefit.
It would be the best Christmas ever for millions of families.
The sad news is, the rich will get the same $1500 we get under
The BartCop
Tax Plan,
and that's only if they have actual income. They won't get a dime if
they just hang around
exclusive country clubs all day and whine about the how big their tax
burden is.
Bush says that $1600 over five years is enough for a hard-working
family of four.
Wouldn't you love to sit across from Cokie Roberts or Tim Russert and
ask them
to explain why $1600 over five years should be enough for a working
family?
Of course, the super-rich won't get their new Lexus if they only get
a $1500 bonus,
but maybe the super-rich need to learn that sometimes that life just
isn't fair.
Unlike the rich, when a working family gets their rebate, they're not
likely to gobble up some
cash-starved small business and fire the employees and sell the empty
carcass to the highest bidder.
What would happen if the lower and middle class had some spending money?
They would use that $3,000-6000 to make a down payment on a car,
buy a washer-dryer,
a computer, maybe make some needed improvements on their home - all
of which would
bring down factory inventories, causing Mr. Small Business to need
to replenish his stock,
so factories will need to hire more workers to increase production.
$1500 is about the price of a great computer. Let's get everyone
online.
If The
BartCop Tax Plan results in the revival of
high tech stocks,
that'd just be another bonus that Bush's reverse Robin Hood scheme
doesn't provide.
With tech stocks coming back, everyone's 401k will be on a roll again.
With their rebate,
people might even pay off their credit cards, and increase the National
Savings Rate,
which is something the Republicans claim they've wanted to do
for many years.
Well, now's our chance.
Can we afford The BartCop Tax Plan?
Cost: If 200 million taxpayers get $1500 =
0.3 trillion dollars
Compare to Smirk's windfall to the rich
= 1.6 trillion dollars
We save over a trillion dollars with The
BartCop Tax Plan,
and we put the money into the people's hands, not
just Wall Street and big
oil.
Here's what we have now:
American families got a piss-ant $600 loan that they had to pay back.
Meanwhile, how did Bush's friends at Enron make out?
Enron had a negative 40% tax rate, and how many people did they
hire?
None
- they screwed everyone out of their life savings.
If the economy comes back to Clintonian levels and we still have a surplus,
we can run
the same plan next Thanksgiving, and have the two greatest
Christmases in a row.
The Democrats need to stop kissing Bush's ass and get behind The
BartCop Tax Plan
and make it their plan so they can put their time and energy
into protecting the non-rich from Bush's
reverse-Robin Hood scheme. My plan puts more money in the hands
of more people faster than the
Bush plan for the rich and, as an extra bonus, we save over a trillion
dollars
Let's pressure Bush and congress to get with OUR program.
Who could be against
The BartCop Tax Plan?
Do people making $30-50K want the super-rich to pay less in
taxes?
Don't let the billionaires define what "fair" means.
"Fair" means putting food on your family.
The BartCop
Tax Plan does that.
Smirk's plan does nothing more than pay back his crooked contributors
a thousand times.
G,
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