HOW ABOUT THEM DODGERS? (Raising taxes on the rich)

Budget deficit? Not enough money for schools, police and firemen? How about raising taxes on the ri--HEY HOW ABOUT THEM DODGERS..?? HMMMM.... But didn't tax rates on the top income bracket used to be.. HEY HOW ABOUT THEM DODGERS...???? You get the idea. **FEEL FREE TO USE THIS SONG TO DO YOUR OWN VIDEO, as long as you title it as specified*** Have fun.

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HOW ABOUT THEM DODGERS (Raising Taxes on the Rich) Jim Terr © 2011




I don't know if you've ever wondered, as I have now and then

How when they approach a certain point, some conversations end.

Now most people by every poll think the rich should be taxed more

Like 80% in the very top brackets, like they were before.




I'm talking about the good old days, the 50s and the 60s

When we all prospered somehow with no trickle-down voodoo trickery.

But Limbaugh'll try to tell ya, you must be a socialist
If it ever even crosses your mind to raise taxes on the ri... (covered up by): (CHORUS) HOW ABOUT THEM DODGERS? AND -- HEY -- VIOLENT CRIME!

AND I HEAR AN ASTEROID COULD HIT US, JUST ABOUT ANY TIME.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT WEINER, AND ROD BLAGOJEVICH.

BUT DON'T YOU EVER TALK ABOUT RAISING TAXES ON THE (BLEEP!)




Yeah sock it to the whining, hopeless leeches like you and me
Who expect to get our Medicaid and Social Security.
Or maybe further down the chain to those blasted welfare moms.

And never even mention that we much spend more on bombs


Than the rest of the whole wide world combined! Now who made us the cops?

Could defense spending take a cut? Will there ever be a stop?

The math is fairly simple -- it's really not a bitch:

Cut war and corporate welfare, raise taxes on the ri.. -CHORUS




Now Gates and Buffett and countless others who ain't exactly poor

Admit it's right for the ultra-rich to pay proportionally more.
But sayin' so must make em hopeless, starry-eyed fanatics.
Besides, what do they know about life or mathematics?




"But lowering taxes on the rich causes more jobs and investment!"

Yeah - and dollars to fall from apple trees and jelly beans from heaven.

The billionaires own the media and the best-funded think tanks.

So while we fight it out they chuckle all the way to the bank.




But how about the journalists who never ask the question?

When faced with senators and congressmen takin' time out from their session

To speculate on who to gouge with nary a guilty twitch,

And never even bring up raising taxes on the ri.. CHORUS.




Yeah NPR and CBS and Fox and CNN
I wonder if you'll ask that question, and -- golly, if so -- when?

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[hymiehymie]

SORRY TO TAKE SO LONG TO APPROVE RECENT COMMENTS. I DIDN'T REALIZE I HAD NOTIFICATIONS SITTING ON G-MAIL, WHICH I NEVER LOOK AT.

[WKHalford]

@wibrilify By the way, I posted what I posted with the simple intent of trying to offset this obviously one-sided video.

You get on to me for posting about Reagan, making out as if I'm one sided, yet I see you posting ABSOLUTELY NO CRITICISM about the video itself, WHICH DOES THE EXACT SAME THING that you criticize me for.

Amazing...

[WKHalford]

@laurenmichellekinsey Negative effects of tax cuts? Like economy-boosting money from tax cuts that CITIZENS would be able to spend on goods and services, which creates other tax dollars from both sales and more jobs/income? Like the money from tax cuts citizens could save for hard economic times, which is money they could then spend to keep themselves alive AND help boost the economy at a time when they might have no money to do so otherwise?

How did the US survive BEFORE federal income tax?

[WKHalford]

@wibrilify Funny, if Reagan changed how unemployment numbers were calculated, then WHY would he have allowed the number to show a jump from '81 to '82?

If Reagan changed how unemployment numbers were calculated, then wouldn' t the numbers after that point drop suddenly, instead of gradually?

[laurenmichellekinsey]

The richest 10% of Americans own over 80% of stocks on the stock market. The profits they make from stocks are taxed at a super low 15% rate.

[laurenmichellekinsey]

Check out Citizens for Tax Justice. They have excellent data on the negative effects of tax cuts. Just the cold hard facts. Google Citizens for Tax Justice.

[vechorik]

Stop the waste and stupid-spending first. Then close tax loopholes. Then, if the US must have new revenue, get millionaires off government benefits of any kind: farm subsidies, VA, Social Security, Medicare, green energy......then we'll talk about a national sales tax to get some money from crooks/illegals.........then talk about raising taxes after those things have been taken care of.

[WKHalford]

@wibrilify Yep, 3 days later and I still see no facts or evidence to prove me wrong.

And just like the link shows that I posted 3 days ago, unemployment was lower when Reagan left office than when he took office, which is a good indicator of a strengthening economy.

[wibrilify]

@WKHalford You're still attempting to locate the point. Both quibbling factions of the ruling class are essentially on the same team, the endless scrum is over who will be in line for lobby funding over the next election cycle. The oligarchs take care of their own. The vote of the common man is meaningless since only the aristocracy can run and they do not represent the masses. It's a false democracy and the peasants fund the lifestyles of the Lords. Wake up bub, it's feudalism

[wibrilify]

@WKHalford Read thru your posts again, it is Reps vs Dems w/ Reagan as the messiah with you. Reagan changed how unemployment numbers were calculated to make the numbers appear more favorable during his term, and then Clinton did the same thing again during his term. Not interested in your googleoff challenge, you really don't pay attention do you. Take a look at the vast transfer of wealth away from the middle class to the top over the past 6 decades. Bipartisan, only place you'll see it.