McCain helped destroy middle class by voting to increase taxes paid by small business people by 66%

[IndyOp]

Why do Republicans, led by John McCain hate the middle class?

Reagan's transfer of tax burden from wealthy to middle-class occurred in large part due to a substantial increase in the "self-employment tax" paid by small businesses.

McCain voted in 1983 to increase the self-employment tax by 66% (from 9% to 15%).

As a result, many small businesses went out of business. Small businesses are our greatest sources of jobs, so when small businesses failed a great many of our jobs disappeared. As our jobs disappeared our middle class did, too.

Ravi Batra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5Of0vdObc

[redqueen]

1. If this was true the media would be all over it!

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[IndyOp]

3. I was about to go all ninja on your ass!

Until I spotted the sarcasm tag.

:hi:

[redqueen]

4. Hehehe... thanks for posting this...

and for not going all ninja on my ass. :P

K&R!

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[kestrel91316]

2. I guarantee you the only businesses the Repukes are "pro" are

BIG businesses - as in: MAJOR MULTINATIONAL MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESSES.

They've never done anything to make my work easier or less complicated.

[HughBeaumont]

5. And why does ANYONE from the middle class love Republicans like cheap beer and wings?

There are three McClown/Failin signs on my street alone. 8 years of beatdowns and they keep coming back for more. Absolutely Amazing and Astounding.

[redqueen]

6. They hope to join the ranks of the real GOP base...

the rich.

(The fundies aren't the real base... they're being played.)

[HughBeaumont]

8. Horatio Alger . . . the biggest LIE ever foisted on useful idiots that share the same brain.

And they keep on believin' it. "You gotta keep hope alive".

[redqueen]

9. Greedy, stupid people.

We could do with a lot fewer.

[madrchsod]

7. i never knew that....

that`s the year my wife and i started our business because i was laid off. i remember paying income taxes on the rent we paid for six months because the irs said that was income even though we did`t make enough to cover the rent. my wife`s income subsidized the rent. we did get a depreciation tax on our machines and sample purchases but that 6% increase wiped out that tax gain. fucking republicans

[redqueen]

10. This is an excellent article to pass on to your RW friends, relatives, etc...

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