I think your at times ignorant of real race issues...
Says the guy who supports racial discrimination... Unlike you, I support racial equality, that means justice is blind rather than justice being social.
I know there are racists, they exist in all races, but you only seem to notice racism coming from the Right, you never seem to acknowledge any of the racism coming from your side of the isle.
as for the raising revenue...a bit of logic does a pretty good job of that.
You're confusing "common sense" for logic. Common sense would suggest that raising taxes does increase revenue. However, when you use the process of logic, you look at the empirical data that disproves the "common sense" concept of Higher Taxes = Greater Revenue and realize that since it's contradicted by facts, it's illogical to make such a claim.
example we are going to build a new NFL Stadium..we have or will soon a balanced budget...how will they pay for the cost? they will raise some taxes...and oddly this raise in taxes will pay for the stadium...
I see... and is this an income tax increase or is it going to be a sales tax like it was here in my city? I ask because I specifically said income tax and I was referring to the federal income tax, yet you don't want to talk about that... Your example is that of an undefined tax on the state level... I suppose in your world that's not ducking the issue to avoid dealing with facts.
aside from your world where the tax money we take in will not actually go up.
Good luck. We built a new stadium and raised the sales tax .5%, the tax gurus projected revenue of $50 million.... Actual revenue, $21 million. But when you parrot the talking points about "Tax the Rich!", you're not talking about a sales tax that nails everybody, you're talking about increasing the top marginal tax rates of the progressive income tax system.
Yes, taxing everyone at the same rate irrespective of income does increase revenue, that's the kind of tax system I support because it does work... The progressive income tax you support does not have the causal effect of raising revenue as rates are increased.
unless the raise in taxes is 100% offset by a decrease in gdp directly related to that tax rate...income will in fact go up.
We've been over this before... Revenue going up is the rule, not the exception, and tax rates do not have a causal effect on revenue within the progressive model of taxation. The empirical data proves this yet you refuse to accept this fact.
Just like when Bush Decreased taxes, but the GDP did not go up so high as to cover it, the Debt went Up.
Again, 100% false. Tax rates went down, revenue went up, SPENDING outpaced revenue (as usual) and therefore the debt went up.
1. Spending is greater than revenue equals debt.
2. Spending is less than revenue equals surplus.
Why doesn't your "common sense" or what you call "logic" allow you to comprehend those economic facts?
Out of 40 years worth of data, there was only one year that tax revenue went down and that's a result of the market crash, tax rates were unchanged that year. Every other year, tax revenue continued to climb regardless of whether tax rates went up, down, or remained unchanged.
