ALAS, all us little people living in our ELITE'S AMERICA HAVE WENDY'S TO THANK AFTER~ALL ...

WHERE'S THE BEEF BILL GATES & WARREN BUFFET ???

40 WEALTHY ELITE BILLIONAIRE AMERICANS CAN ALL SIGN THEIR PETITIONS 2 PROMISE TO DONATE THEIR BILLIONS TO CHARITY WHEN THEY DIE, BUT IF THOSE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of AMERICAN $$ LEAVE AMERICA FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POOR INSTEAD OF OUR OWN POORER AMERICANS NEEDS, THEN WHY IS ALL THE MEDIA HYPE HERE IN AMERICA EVEN NEEDED ??

AMERICA IS ALREADY #1 COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ( IN DONATING TAX $$ ) TO the INTERNATIONAL POOR !!

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Why Do Republicans Want to Raise the Deficit?

By Bernie Sanders

opednews.com

For OpEdNews: Bernie Sanders - Writer

The senator gave the following speech Tuesday on the floor of the United States Senate. "Mr. President" refers to the president of the Senate.

Each and every day, it gets harder and harder to listen to my Republican friends who race to the Senate floor telling the American people how "concerned" they are about the $13 trillion national debt and how "we have to get our financial house in order."

As you know, under the leadership of George W. Bush, these same Republicans turned a record-breaking federal surplus left by President Clinton into record-breaking deficits. Back then, their rallying cry was "deficits don't matter" articulated by then-Vice President Dick Cheney. This "deficits don't matter" philosophy gave us two wars that were not paid for -- and there are estimates that the Iraq War alone will end up costing some $3 trillion, $700 billion in tax breaks to the richest one percent, a $400 billion unpaid for prescription drug program written by the pharmaceutical industry, and a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.

But under President Obama, Republicans have seemingly taken a 180-degree turn. Now, apparently, deficits do matter. Now, they say we can't afford to extend unemployment insurance to two million Americans who lost their jobs in the worst recession in modern history. And, they say we can't create new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure or transforming our energy system.

And the Republican hypocrisy is about to advance to a whole new level. In the name of "fiscal responsibility" they are opposing virtually every effort to help the middle class and working families of our country. But, when it comes to the needs of millionaire and billionaire families, they have no problem reducing revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, they are deficit hawks when it comes to the needs of ordinary people, but they are big spenders when it comes to the needs of the rich.

Mr. President, four years ago, every Republican but two voted to completely eliminate the estate tax -- a tax that has been in existence since 1916 and impacts only the very richest families in the country - the top three-tenths of one percent. This huge tax break for the wealthy, if passed, would increase the national debt by more than $1 trillion over a ten-year period.

Let me tell you who the major beneficiaries of this tax break would be. Would it be the average middle class worker who during the Bush years saw a $2,200 decline in his income? No. That person would not get one penny of help by repealing the estate tax. Would it be a single Mom trying to save up to send her daughter to college? No, I'm afraid not. Not one penny for that person.

Would it be one of the millions of senior citizens who are struggling to survive on Social Security? No. No help for them from this Republican tax break.

And I should add here sadly that there are also a few Democrats who are supporting this giveaway.

So, Mr. President, who are the major beneficiaries of the repeal of the estate tax or as the Republican pollsters like to call it the "death tax"?

Well, if we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family -- the founders of Wal-Mart.

So, let me make a contrast here with regard to Republican philosophy. They believe that it is a good idea to give a $32.7 billion tax break to one family worth $86 billion, but when it comes to providing $35 billion for an emergency extension of unemployment benefits to some two million Americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, the Republicans are just not there. One family gets almost $33 billion in tax breaks, two million working class Americans get nothing. Maybe that makes moral sense to somebody, but not to me.

But, Mr. President, it is not just the Walton family that our Republican friends and a few Democrats want to help.

Permanently repealing the estate tax would also provide an $11 billion tax break to the Mars candy bar family, a $9 billion tax break to the Cox cable family; and a $2.5 billion tax break to the family that founded Campbell's Soup. No one in the bottom 99.7 percent of the population would gain one cent from these tax breaks.

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Bernie Sanders is the independent U.S. Senator from Vermont. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. He is a member of the Senate's Budget, Veterans, Environment, Energy, and H.E.L.P. (Health, Education, (more...)

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