Democrats are publicly crawling over each other to see who can cut taxes more than the next one. Has hell frozen over?
Or maybe this is just one more example of Democrats saying one thing while doing another.
The new Democrat governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, ran as a moderate. However, as soon as she was elected, she proposed 50 (yes, 50) new taxes in coordination with her colleagues in the Legislature. Nowhere was there a proposal for cutting expenditures.
The country’s new leader of the communists (sorry, socialists), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has a city budget that is larger than the gross national product of 125 countries, but he has also said he won’t be cutting anything. He has effectively put a gun to the head of the state Legislature while telling it to either give him tax increases on the most successful residents or higher property taxes for everyone.
These are the Democrats we know and love.
They were echoing their West Coast comrades, who have created class warfare at the highest levels. The state of Washington has tagged anyone who is making over $1 million a year with a previously unallowed income tax at 9.9%. California likes to do everything in a big way. It didn’t waste its time on puny millionaires, instead going after billionaires. It wants to confiscate 5% of their net worth.
The affordability issue exploded on the political scene, driven by the outsized spending that the Biden administration created in coordination Democrats in Congress. The gargantuan expenditures were funded from the Democrats’ imaginary “money tree” and caused inflation not seen since the 1970s, which in turn caused a severe recession.
Everything from the cost of a bacon and egg breakfast to houses became more costly and unaffordable for many. That brought the Democrats’ most loathed person, Donald Trump, back to the presidency.
Like a lightning bolt from Zeus, Democrats offered us tax proposals we never thought we would see. Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., have proposed the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act, eliminating income taxes on anyone earning under $46,000 for an individual or $92,000 for a couple. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has offered the Keep Your Pay Act, raising the standard deduction to $37,500 for individuals and $75,000 for couples.
None of these people voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed less than a year ago. It eliminated taxes on overtime pay and tip income for many people at these earning levels. We didn’t hear a peep from these senators when that bill was being discussed that those provisions did not go far enough. They just castigated it because it came from Trump.
Katie Porter has jumped into the now-warmed-up pool with her own proposal. The former member of Congress decided she must revive her floundering campaign for California governor. She wants to eliminate California’s outsized state income taxes on anyone making under $100,000. Last year, she did not take the opportunity to campaign for adopting the federal rules of no tax on tips or overtime.
There is a problem with the Democrats’ proposals, as there always is when it comes to your money. If these proposals were adopted, it would be another weapon in their class warfare chest. An estimated 40% of Americans already pay no income tax. In California, that is estimated to be between 45% and 50% of taxpayers already paying no income tax. Those levels will soar if any of these proposals are adopted.
The problem is that the tax base would shrink even more with no commensurate cut in government to offset the loss of revenues. That would cause even greater class warfare against the people with incomes above those levels. It would be simple to convince people to vote for tax increases on “the other” as the money is not coming from their pockets. That is exactly the concept behind the proposed referendum for the billionaire tax.
To that point, both the Van Hollen and Booker proposal quietly offset their tax cuts by raising taxes on “the rich.” Van Hollen raises the top tax rate by 12%, while Booker raises the top tax rate by 6%. This is clear evidence that their tax cuts are just class warfare.
It always ends up hurting you when you tax the “other guy.”
Democrats’ supposed tax cuts are a charade. They always have a hidden motive. No, hell has not frozen over. The Democrats are just doing their newest version of punishing success.
Bruce Bialosky is a former presidential appointee, a practicing CPA with a specialty on tax law and founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition of California.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Bruce Bialosky.
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The Democratic Party and their allies are all liars, they have stolen the American taxpayer money for their personal gain and to give the money to illegal immigrates! The Democratic Party and their allies are our enemies and they are not to be trusted!
They are running for re-election. As soon as they are elected, they will reverse course.
Democrats want to lower taxes?
Sure they do. Just ask Abigail Spanberger. . .
Yeah right. Liberals tax the rich. The rich move to a conservative state. Then the liberals lower the bar to tax the middle class, and so on.
They are lying. Look at Spanberger in Virginia. She told everyone she is a moderate. She raised everyone’s taxes and is now going after 2nd amendment rights. Virginia want to be like California and NY. Don’t trust this.
I think this is all just talk in an effort to gain support for Democrats at a time when, despite their claims to the contrary, Democrat support is dropping like a rock as their hate for this nation and its citizens has become very clear for all to see.
Such fricking liars, just another election scam to garner votes.
California and New York have the greatest number of people moving away to states with lower taxes. Taxing the rich sounds great until you see the rich packing up and leaving. The rich can run their businesses from anywhere. They can afford to move. A declining tax base is not what any state wants to see..
Cut now and then raise other taxes and fees to double what they are doing. The way you can tell if a democrat is lying is their lips are moving and promising something they can’t deliver on.
Another lie only be elected and then raise taxes for frivolous projects. Nothing that the dems have done have profited Americans.
There are two things that Democrats absolutely hate with a passion. Tax Cuts and The 2nd Amendment.
It’s election time, dims are promising anything for votes. None of them intend to really cut taxes after they’re elected!
Democrats want to lower taxes AGAIN? Most recently JFK (just) did that in 1962 or so. Now democrats want to do it again, but they just did that 64 years ago
Lets lower taxes on the poor who do not pay anyway and hit the rich, that will make us look good in the eyes of oppressed.
Never believe a thing that spews out of their mouths. They are Satans disciples. We know they hate our country, our citizens, Trump & everything in between. They have a way of deceit in everything they say or do. Don’t fall for their lies.
As usual, DIMMs are trying to cut the baby in half and “they ain’t no Solomon!” Raise taxes while simultaneously “proposing” tax cuts! How many people are STUPID enough to buy this pig in a poke?
NO another diversion game antic
Democrats don’t want to lower taxes for all they want to discriminate against success.
They are up to something. They never want to lower taxes. I think they just realized how low their public opinion is. So they can get reelected and then they’ll double how much they were going to raise them. Their lips are moving and never forget
No sympathy to the idiots that elected them. When will they ever learn?
Can you say midterm ploy for votes to get your mind off the issue of illegals.
This is exactly what you would expect from Communists by any name Democrat, Socialist, Marxist, Progressive. Perhaps all these folks should be offered one-way tickets to the third world country of their choice, in exchange for permanent relinquishment of their US citizenship, if they actually have such. Bon Vonyage, the sooner the better!
America’s number one enemy within, the DemoRATS, have NEVER lowered taxes, let alone eliminated any. AND the DemoRATS have NEVER thought ANYTHING THROUGH before they make their typical ASININE decision – who is it going to hurt, how many jobs will it cost, will it cause devastating inflation, how are we going to pay for it, will it actually make things better for the masses, how many successful entrepreneurs will chose (be forced) to leave the State, further reducing revenues, etc, etc, etc.
No DemoRAT politicians (and RINOs) are far more STUPID than the average dumba$$.
Democrats lowering taxes in one area so they can steal the money from someplace else. Can they ever be trusted, I think not.
I don’t believe the Democrats WANT to cut taxes, they just want to win the Mid Terms very badly. When those have passed the Democrats will double back down on their wicked ways!
if anyone believes that democrats are serious about cutting taxes, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn I’d love to sell you. Also, funny thing about the democrats so-called tax hikes on the rich: nine times out of ten those tax hikes trickle down to the middle class. Anyone who doubts me need look no further than the alternative minimum tax. That tax was only supposed to impact the rich too. What happened? more and more of the middle class got hit by it.
It’s all a lie in the Big Show, they’re just trying to get voters back and as soon as they do the do the same thing as the Iranians do. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them.
The democrats have never seen a tax they didn’t like. They don’t understand the concept behind taxation at all, it’s nothing more than the cost of civilization. If one group pays, the others have no skin in the game and should not even get to participate.
Just like Spanarat, they’re lying through their teeth! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…..NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EVER AGAIN!
The word Democrat is synonymous with the word LIAR. In all my years on this Earth, I do not believe I have ever met or observed a Democrat telling the truth. Their motto is to tell the people what they want to hear and then do whatever you want. If they question you later on, tell them you are working on it because these things take time.
Next Election, rinse and repeat.
Democrats are lowering taxes on the working class that already pay zero or almost no taxes! What a political scam! Typical Democrats ; Deceitful!
It’s all about perception. What will sound the best to all of the brain washed low information followers, true or not. Once again, the education system and the media are doing their jobs, and nothing is being done about it. And until it is, nothing will change.
The doomacrats will never tax the wealthy without an extreme loophole in place. Stop the games. TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS.
The democrats like Booker and Kelly, the ones that have a few braincells missing when it comes to their TDS disease. They throw things out there. But have no plans how to pay for it. Taxing the billionaires and millionaires they just up and move. Plus the taxes they are cutting are billions of dollars more than what they get from the few billionaires and millionaires. It’s an illusion. Mamdani is doing the same thing. Promise the working class everything and once elected those pie in the sky promises cannot be reached and who suffers. The ones just a step above middleclass in income. Not the billionaires not the millionaires. They are gone before the tax dept in the city can send them a bill. Typical democrat policy. They throw things at the wall and see what sticks and then they find out that the sh.. is running down the wall because it has no substance. Democrats lowering taxes and promising the masses free this and free that. Never happens. But voting for the great big beautiful bill where everything was thought out to the penny, that they wouldn’t do. After all it was President Trump who proposed this. But they see their chances for reelection waning big time in the upcoming midterms. They have to do something to attract voters. The blacks and Latinos have left them already. The so called No King demonstration on Saturday showed that. All we saw white seniors and some young obstructions and agitators thrown in. The young people were all paid by Soros er al. You know those billionaires the dem love so much. None of them will ever get taxed the percentage Booker and Kelly are throwing around. Katie better go and take a few economy classes how to avoid inflation with her plan for CA. Booker and Kelly should join her.
They promise what fools will believe. Just ask Mam-dam-e. It worked there. If you believe these LIARS, please look out of your window tonight. If you see 3 kings on camels following a star- you will know it is Christmas already.
Lip speak.
They have zero intention of lowering taxes, NOR shrinking government.
And I’d almost bet the RANCH they have a different meaning of “lowering taxes” than the most popular definition.
Knowing many democrats, their excuse, while raising the CRAP out of taxes everywhere they can was, “the higher the tax, the more cheating, so the government takes in less” . . . . yes, they really THINK that way. After hearing this, I understood what Old man Mario Cuomo meant by “we lowered taxes ALL across the board in NY State” . . . . in reality, they only took in LESS revenue.
They say cut taxes,but after they are elected,well let’s just say that if a democ rats mouth is moving they are probably lying.They tax and spend,then spend and tax more.They have had a lot of practice.
In 2022, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul urged Republicans to leave the state and move to Florida. Lots of people took her advice, and not all of them the people she wanted to expel. Earlier this month, she was reduced to begging “high-net-worth” former state residents to move back and pay the expensive tax tab to fund her state’s spending choices. FAFO Queen
Hell has not frozen over. The “Democrats” in name only are lying through their teeth!!
Trump has said that affordability is a word coined by Democrats & also that affordability is a Democratic hoax. This administration is out of touch with reality if they do not realize that the middle and lower classes are feeling the pain of higher costs for almost everything. And quit blaming Biden for higher costs when Trump said he would lower costs in the first year.
Both parties are wrong if they are decreasing taxes & do not have a balanced budget. It is a real long term problem if we cut taxes and keep increasing the national debt that is over +$40 Trillion . Spend the tax dollars more wisely !
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When a Democrat opens his or her mouth a lie comes out. They have proven over and over to say anything to get elected then do the opposite
Maybe the Income Tax might go down, but all other taxes and fees will go up, like taxes on fuel, electric, vehicles, houses, property, dividends, stocks, bonds, dog (or any pet) license, food, highway tolls, cell phones, internet, utilities, water, sewer, lawn mowers, farm machinery,
Democrats have proven that they can’t be trusted. They did not even stand for American citizens over illegal aliens during the State-of-the-Union address. America first! I may never vote for another democrat again. Trust only Republicans about taxes.
Democrats want to reduce taxes on people that don’t pay taxes and vastly increase taxes on people that WILL relocate to avoid said taxes.
If a Democrats lips are moving, it’s certainly a lie.
Dems want to cut taxes? DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT. Politics is a dirty, lying business and one side is as bad as the other in the uni-party system we have. One side just moves faster than the other towards the common goal of NWO governance.
The Democrats do not know how to tell the truth. They lie and makeup stuff everyday. Just cowards and liars thru and thru…
Love Democrats? I love them to death. I love to hate them.