By Mitt Robme
The presidential elections are just around the corner and politicians are starting to ramp up their speeches. That means that even if they don't believe what they're saying, they'll still be telling you what you want to hear.
On the republican side of the isle that means that you'll be hearing about gun rights, pro-life issues, and cutting to taxes for everyone. It's unlikely that any actual laws will change that much, if at all when they get elected, but there will be plenty of tough talk on the campaign trail.
Abortion rights have been in place since 1972 with little change since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. No republican president has proposed legislation to change that ruling, but during campaign they've all talked about it.
For republicans, the narrative is really quite simple. It means that one liners that appeal to the uneducated masses will rule the land. Wealthy individuals that stand to gain from controlling the uneducated will also claim to be in favor of those laws.
Things like tax cuts for everyone energizes those that think they know what to do with their money better than the government. Statements like that can be quite polarizing and energize the base.
The idea of lower taxes for the wealthy goes against the basic economic principle of supply and demand. Cutting taxes so that wealthy people can invest in things like factories, new stores, and businesses would increase the supply of goods and services produced by those investments. The problem with that reasoning is that the supply of goods and services is the wrong thing to try to stimulate, instead it should be the demand for new goods and services. When people want to buy things and have the money to do so, that's when the economy starts to grow and the supply of those goods and services has to increase to meet that new demand. Increasing demand makes everyone better off. Wealth people make money because their goods are being bought, rising demand increases the employment level to be able to meet that demand, the people that are now employed have more money to spend on even more goods and services. Investing in something that nobody wants leads nowhere.
Even if you don't fly or drive, it's likely that those things are still quite important to maintaining your quality of life since they are part of the infrastructure that is used to carry your mail, bring in food that you eat, and bring gas for the car you drive. All of those things have one thing in common; they are public goods that are funded by tax revenue. No one wants to pay for those things, but they improve the quality of life for everyone.
Some people may believe in personal responsibility. Personal responsibility could be interpreted in many different ways, but surely more people would not say that they are personally responsible for building their own sidewalks and streetlights, or organizing their own fire department. That means that there must be a system in place that can fund the infrastructure and services that we use colletively as a society.
That scenario may be a bit extreme, but it is a good example that illustrates that most people can't go at it alone. There are benefits that everyone enjoys from tax revenue that has been collected from a wide variety of people.
Either way, if you're running for president, you have to regurgitate the usual rhetoric to be in line with the base of your party. Even if it doesn't make all that much sense and it goes against everything you said in the past.
If all of that doesn't pay off in the polls, it's time to not just blame your opponent, but to also blame the liberal media. The reason for lagging poll numbers is never your fault, it's the fault of the crazy liberal media.
You can talk to empty chairs, lie about your triumphant marathons, and even try to restrict voting rights in battle ground states, but if your policies suck, someone will eventually call you out on them. The truth is that Governor Romney was not a bad choice for president, but candidate Romney has flipped on everything he stood for and is alienating half the country. Now that someone is calling him out on what he's been saying on the campaign trail he looks like an out of touch rich guy whose oblivious as to who he's offending. It's easy to claim personal responsibility when you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and the only real responsibility he ever had to take was figuring out how much money to borrow from his parents to move out of the country club.
On the republican side of the isle that means that you'll be hearing about gun rights, pro-life issues, and cutting to taxes for everyone. It's unlikely that any actual laws will change that much, if at all when they get elected, but there will be plenty of tough talk on the campaign trail.
Abortion rights have been in place since 1972 with little change since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. No republican president has proposed legislation to change that ruling, but during campaign they've all talked about it.
For republicans, the narrative is really quite simple. It means that one liners that appeal to the uneducated masses will rule the land. Wealthy individuals that stand to gain from controlling the uneducated will also claim to be in favor of those laws.
Things like tax cuts for everyone energizes those that think they know what to do with their money better than the government. Statements like that can be quite polarizing and energize the base.
The idea of lower taxes for the wealthy goes against the basic economic principle of supply and demand. Cutting taxes so that wealthy people can invest in things like factories, new stores, and businesses would increase the supply of goods and services produced by those investments. The problem with that reasoning is that the supply of goods and services is the wrong thing to try to stimulate, instead it should be the demand for new goods and services. When people want to buy things and have the money to do so, that's when the economy starts to grow and the supply of those goods and services has to increase to meet that new demand. Increasing demand makes everyone better off. Wealth people make money because their goods are being bought, rising demand increases the employment level to be able to meet that demand, the people that are now employed have more money to spend on even more goods and services. Investing in something that nobody wants leads nowhere.
Even if you don't fly or drive, it's likely that those things are still quite important to maintaining your quality of life since they are part of the infrastructure that is used to carry your mail, bring in food that you eat, and bring gas for the car you drive. All of those things have one thing in common; they are public goods that are funded by tax revenue. No one wants to pay for those things, but they improve the quality of life for everyone.
Some people may believe in personal responsibility. Personal responsibility could be interpreted in many different ways, but surely more people would not say that they are personally responsible for building their own sidewalks and streetlights, or organizing their own fire department. That means that there must be a system in place that can fund the infrastructure and services that we use colletively as a society.
That scenario may be a bit extreme, but it is a good example that illustrates that most people can't go at it alone. There are benefits that everyone enjoys from tax revenue that has been collected from a wide variety of people.
Either way, if you're running for president, you have to regurgitate the usual rhetoric to be in line with the base of your party. Even if it doesn't make all that much sense and it goes against everything you said in the past.
If all of that doesn't pay off in the polls, it's time to not just blame your opponent, but to also blame the liberal media. The reason for lagging poll numbers is never your fault, it's the fault of the crazy liberal media.
You can talk to empty chairs, lie about your triumphant marathons, and even try to restrict voting rights in battle ground states, but if your policies suck, someone will eventually call you out on them. The truth is that Governor Romney was not a bad choice for president, but candidate Romney has flipped on everything he stood for and is alienating half the country. Now that someone is calling him out on what he's been saying on the campaign trail he looks like an out of touch rich guy whose oblivious as to who he's offending. It's easy to claim personal responsibility when you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and the only real responsibility he ever had to take was figuring out how much money to borrow from his parents to move out of the country club.
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