How can a (presumably relatively small) tax cut for the rich few make the politician who makes it more popular with the poor masses?
Well, Bush's proposed tax cut that helped "win" him the 2000 election gave something like $200 to the average shmoe. But what most people didn't realize was that the "cuts" were actually "advancements," and so they simply owed an extra $200 come tax time.
I think that an American politician could admit to wanting to start an ungrounded war, destroy the economy, remove freedom, leave the country open to terrorist attacks, and make the nation look like bunch of blathering morons on the world stage, and he'd win if he promised to give just five dollars to each American person.
Oh, wait....
(Note that the oil companies, who got a hefty tax cut for breaking the average person's back with gas prices this year, don't have to give back their tax cuts.)
I used to make candy when I was at school, and I had a fairly successful (very small) business until it got shut down because I was taking customers away from the school tuck-shop.
Yay to you! Boo to the school! Can't they stand a little competition?
We had that at our uni too. One company had the foodservice contract for the whole uni, and so no one else could sell food on campus. The result was overpriced food and thoroughly craptastic service. We used to have to get special permission to hold a book/bake sale to benefit the literary magazine.
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Well, Bush's proposed tax cut that helped "win" him the 2000 election gave something like $200 to the average shmoe. But what most people didn't realize was that the "cuts" were actually "advancements," and so they simply owed an extra $200 come tax time.
I think that an American politician could admit to wanting to start an ungrounded war, destroy the economy, remove freedom, leave the country open to terrorist attacks, and make the nation look like bunch of blathering morons on the world stage, and he'd win if he promised to give just five dollars to each American person.
Oh, wait....
(Note that the oil companies, who got a hefty tax cut for breaking the average person's back with gas prices this year, don't have to give back their tax cuts.)
I used to make candy when I was at school, and I had a fairly successful (very small) business until it got shut down because I was taking customers away from the school tuck-shop.
Yay to you! Boo to the school! Can't they stand a little competition?
We had that at our uni too. One company had the foodservice contract for the whole uni, and so no one else could sell food on campus. The result was overpriced food and thoroughly craptastic service. We used to have to get special permission to hold a book/bake sale to benefit the literary magazine.
What kinds of candy did you make?