Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Take Action and Help Stop Bush Tax Cuts for the Richest 2%!


As all of you know, as the sun sets on the Democrat controlled House, one of the dominant issues is the possible extension of the Bush tax cuts, primarily those cuts that specifically target the country’s highest income earners. As all of you also know, taxes levied on the wealthiest Americans are at an all-time low, while the deficit is rising, along with income inequality and America’s entry into the Banana Republic club (seriously). 

Just as I did during health care reform efforts, I now take the liberty of posting some key tax cut tweets here. You may have already seen them floating around on “#p2” and “p2b”. Please, get the word out by tweeting them profusely and don’t waste space by crediting me. Tweet to trending hash tags if needed. Most of mine include “#Fact”, in an effort to reach an audience beyond the progressive crowd. Also, below are a few Act.ly petitions that you should also tweet and tweet and tweet. Now, for the good of our country, get to work, and happy tweeting.

Petitions
Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey Rep @jahimes! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2ew RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey Sen @evanbayh! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/28u #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey @Rep_Giffords! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2fg RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey @repschrader! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2fh RT to sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey Rep @LeonardBoswell! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2ff RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey Rep @HarryEMitchell! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2ev RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey Rep @GlennNye! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2eu RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey @SenBenNelson! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/28l RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!!  Hey @RepJimMatheson! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2et RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey @repjohnbarrow! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/2es RT2Sign #p2 #p21

Top 1% getting 65% of GDP!! Hey @whitehouse! With windfalls like this, who needs a tax break? http://act.ly/28l RT to sign #p2 #p21

Tweets
#Fact: Bush tax cut extensions=lowest bang 4 the buck versus 11 other stimulus plans (CBO) http://bit.ly/cRrLzd #p2 #p21

#Fact: The CBO ranked tax cut extension for the top 2% as DEAD LAST out of a range of stimulus options. #p2 #p21

#Fact: $200 billion=cost of Bush Tax cuts in 2010, $34 billion=cost of jobless benefits for 2010. #p2 #p21

#Fact: Payroll tax cut for firms hiring more workers=4 to 8 times as many jobs per $ as extending high-income tax cuts. #p21 #p2

#Fact: Every $ spent on Bush tax cut yielded a mere 32 cents in economic growth (Moody's Analytics)! #p21 #p2

#Fact: 1990s, b4 Bush tax cuts, small businesses added 756,000 jobs per year vs 367,000 during Bush years. #p21 #p2

#Fact: If Bush tax cuts expire, the high income marginal tax rate wld still be lower than it was at end of Reagan's 1st term. #p2 #p21

#Fact: Cost of the Bush tax cuts to the top 1% alone is larger than the Department of Education's budget http://bit.ly/aXCoGY #p2 #p21

#Fact: In the long-run, Bush tax cuts will be the largest contribution to the deficit! http://huff.to/9Q1BlM #p21 #p2

#Fact: Between 2002 & 2007 two-thirds of the nation’s total income gains flowed to the top 1% of households. #p21 #p2

Sources
Posting sources is difficult to do, given the 140 character limit. In case someone asks, here are the sources for these tweets. If it's a teabagger asking, blow their minds and tell them that all data is from Glenn Beck. After all, for them, any other source is just a hub in the Obama/Chavez/Marx/Kim Jong Il communist nexus of tyranny based in Kenya.

Tweet #1 includes a link (http://bit.ly/cRrLzd) that covers tweets #2,

Tweet #3 http://nyti.ms/bSNCHU

Tweet #4 http://bit.ly/cTILeH

Tweet #5 - http://usat.ly/9hzP4u. This could also cover tweets #1 and #2

Tweet #6: http://bit.ly/cTILeH

Tweet #7 - is actually a quote from http://huff.to/cggxdb

Tweets #8, 9 include links

Tweet #10 http://bit.ly/ao5fTU

As far as the petitions go, the 65% figure is an adjustment made to an article (http://yhoo.it/dcCSJJ)that says 66%. I remember the number being 65%, so I errored on the side of caution.

Hope this helps. I try to keep these sources in order, but I literally have hundreds (maybe several thousand) tweets across a couple of different spread sheets. 

3 comments:

  1. Do you have sources for these numbers? I posted them w/o verification myself.

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  2. I know. Posting sources is so hard with the 140 limit.

    Tweet #1 includes a link (http://bit.ly/cRrLzd) that covers tweets #2,

    Tweet #3 http://nyti.ms/bSNCHU

    Tweet #4 http://bit.ly/cTILeH

    Tweet #5 - http://usat.ly/9hzP4u. This could also cover tweets #1 and #2

    Tweet #6: http://bit.ly/cTILeH

    Tweet #7 - is actually a quote from http://huff.to/cggxdb

    Tweets #8, 9 include links

    Tweet #10 http://bit.ly/ao5fTU

    As far as the petitions go, the 65% figure is an adjustment made to an article (http://yhoo.it/dcCSJJ)that says 66%. I remember the number being 65%, so I errored on the side of caution.

    Hope this helps. I try to keep these sources in order, but I literally have hundreds (maybe several thousand) tweets across a couple of different spread sheets.

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  3. You could also blow there minds and just tell them that all the data is from Glenn Beck! :-)

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