In between bashing the president and misrepresenting the
troubles in Iraq, Joe Scarborough introduced Rob Astorino, the Westchester
county executive, and now Republican-Tea Party candidate for Governor of New
York facing Democrat Andrew Cuomo. His
opening salvo was that New York ranks highest in the nation for taxes. That is the unequivocal truth. It is a
winning strategy. Frank Lutz has used focus groups to determine that everyone
wants to pay less tax—therefore a winning strategy is to run on paying less tax;
a strategy has worked all over the country. I would like to add that it is exactly what has gotten use into trouble
in this country—everyone wants something for nothing.
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So what is wrong with
Astorino saying that? Where is the lie? New York has the highest taxes in
the nation. The real question is why is that the case? He is using the
Republican deception they use all over the nation. New York has a three-part
problem. I have already mentioned the first and perhaps the most important part;
people do not want to pay tax. The remaining two parts are that two turncoat Democrats
turned over control of the New York Senator to Republicans. The last part is that
Republicans are perpetual liars; apparently, in their minds they are not lying
when they talk about lower taxes and high taxes. What they are talking about are
different elements of society and not all of society as Democrats do.
Through nefarious dealings, two democrats voted to install a
Republican leader in the State Senate. Let me explain why this is so important,
even in a bicameral government using the United States Senate as an example.
Once you install a Republican leader, you
put an end to democracy in that body where that happened even at the smallest
committee level. I learned this from being involved in the nastiest of
university politics for many years. We hear this expressed in the media but
perhaps do not recognize it for what it means. Republicans will not compromise,
or, they say to compromise is to lose. I sat for hours in meetings, down
through the years, having committee chairs tell the committee what “they”
decided even without a vote. I see the same thing happen repeatedly in Congressional
committees, such as the Darrell Issa Government Oversight Committee. They have
blatant disregard for minority Democrat opinions on the committee. I should add
that when the tables are turn Republicans scream with anguish accompanied by hate
and vicious accusations of Democratic mistreatment of Republicans (they do this
with the President as well). My point is that democrats tend to be fairer—an
innate difference in our nature. The interpretation of the situation is that
from now on New York State Senate decisions will be Republican decisions, which
means that things will only get worse for the people but continue to feed industrial
greed.
When Republicans talk
about high tax, they are talking about “industry” and not the “people”. This
is not hidden. For example, there are media ads financed by industry and shown
all over the nation begging industries to relocate to “zero” tax or tax free zones
in New York. The same thing is happening across the entire nation, North
Carolina for example; Republican states are in competition to attract “jobs”. The
ads never say what they are doing to the workers in those places. Come to where
there are “right to work laws”, which means there are no unions, where public
service employees have no bargaining rights, no minimum wage, not state regulation
of the environment, where utility prices are controlled by industry; thus, are
about one third for big users as they are for house holds. The ads should tell
the people that there is minimum unemployment insurance, no pensions, and no
health care. Zero tax means workers not only work for starvation wages but they
pay all the cost of infrastructure, police and fire protection, and public schools
are trashed to force parents to send their children to profit making private
schools; only rich kids can go to good schools. Public schools are trash and
teachers are leaving in droves. They do not mention that the wages are so low
that many workers have to go on food stamps. By the way, Republicans complain
about the high cost of welfare, which they have caused—even our soldier and
sailor families have to go on food stamps stamps. It is done in a simple way; the
tax burden is shifted to sales taxes and off income taxes; this, is no longer a
progressive tax.
Yes, Rob Astorino will challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in
this year's election for governor with the cry that taxes in New York are 60%;
and the people will buy it, they do not want to pay more taxes . . . they are Taxed Enough Already.
The truth is States do not tax industries enough—and the 1% brag about it. I
can only ask when people will wise up and stop letting the Republican political
operatives drag them around by the nose with lies about welfare queens,
abortion, guns, and TAXES.
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