Higher taxes is not what people demand, but having tax cuts won't be marvelous either. People believe having taxes lowered will be effortless and the government will be limited to misuse the money that comes from taxpayers. The government should not raise nor lower taxes in our economy and things should be conserved for now.
Some people assume obtaining decreased taxes will conceive more mid and high paying jobs and that cutting taxes could cause an escalation for the government's revenue. This way of thinking is understandable because having an expansion of revenue for the government can go towards the national debt or public services. However, in order to accomplish these tax cuts there will be enormous spending cuts and can result in a worse situation. In 1981 and 2001 both Reagan and Bush, former presidents, passed tremendous tax cuts which resulted in extra deficits and higher debt (Winegarden). There is no evidence that tax cuts spur growth in our economy according to a new study by the Congressional Research Service, but there is evidence throughout the years of tax cuts damaging the growth (Blodget). Tax cuts can create extra jobs, but corporations will experience spending cuts throughout their company and
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Tax cuts is a way to gain votes for candidates during election time, since they know most people would agree with it, but in the past when former presidents actually passed some sort of tax cut it ended in a catastrophe. People that are into politics, but know nothing about the cons of tax cuts should weigh out the options before choosing one side over the other. Taxes may be a little too high as for now, but trying to accomplish tax cuts will not end well, but in the future we could achieve that
Concerning the debate on our economy, republicans generally believe strongly in the power of a free market system, reduced income tax rate, more spending from the people, and less spending from the government. The Republican Party wants the tax rate to not be affected regardless of how much wealth a person has, and wants the tax rate to be reduced in order to create more private spending. According to the Republican National Convention web site, republicans “believe government should tax only to raise money for its essential functions,” such as keeping citizens safe from criminals and maintaining basic infrastructure and national security (Barton). With this being said, taxes should not be increased, but instead decreased, to lead to more spending on the free market and less spending from the federal government. The money the government uses to spend comes from the taxpayers, and republicans believe that those taxpayers have the right to use their money in other ways, such as spending on the free market, or saving it for the future. In turn, the republican idea is that when the taxes on things are lower, the people will spend more, which creates a steady, stable economy. The Republican Party would like to see a de-regulated economy with less taxing and more spending.
At the start of September, Donald Trump terminated a program and in turn put fear into the hearts of nearly 800,000 people and their friends and family. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was a program that was made to replace the DREAM Act (a policy that was not approved by Congress which would have created a path towards citizenship for “illegal” immigrants that came to the United States as children). DACA was put into effect in 2012 by former President Barack Obama through an executive order. This policy protects immigrants who, as children, were either illegally brought to the United States or were brought legally but then stayed past their visas’ expiration dates. DACA provides this specific group of immigrants with protection from deportation, a social security number, and a work permit; however, it is not a way of gaining legal status. Not only are the qualifications for eligibility specific and limiting, but the application process itself is expensive, extensive, long, and it has to be done every two years.
II. Implementing a flat tax without significantly increasing the deficit is impossible without shifting the burden from the rich to the middle-class, instead our current progressive tax policy needs to be changed so that it is simpler and does not allow corporations to abuse the tax loopholes.
...o charities and health centers. The government should look to possibly allow for taxpayers to decide what happens with their money. Again, if the country truly wants to cut the budget deficit, it starts with removing some of the middle class benefits for which the wealthy are already struggling to pay. To raise taxes on the rich will only stunt economic growth and cut jobs, which are two key components to having a prosperous country. Success and development within a nation strictly comes from the power and wealth of the economy and the integrity of earning and deserving what one puts in through hard work. The United States lives by the American Dream, and as long as this drives the majority of individuals, there is no logical reason to take more than what is necessary, especially from the ones who have taken advantage of the opportunity the best.
In recent years, the number of Americans who are uninsured has reached over 45 million citizens, with millions more who only have the very basic of insurance, effectively under insured. With the growing budget cuts to medicaid and the decreasing amount of employers cutting back on their health insurance options, more and more americans are put into positions with poor health care or no access to it at all. At the heart of the issue stems two roots, one concerning the morality of universal health care and the other concerning the economic effects. Many believe that health care reform at a national level is impossible or impractical, and so for too long now our citizens have stood by as our flawed health-care system has transformed into an unfixable mess. The good that universal healthcare would bring to our nation far outweighs the bad, however, so, sooner rather than later, it is important for us to strive towards a society where all people have access to healthcare.
Less than a quarter of uninsured Americans believe the Affordable Care Act is a good idea. According to experts, more than 87 million Americans could lose their current health care plan under the Affordable Care Act. This seems to provide enough evidence that the Affordable Care Act is doing the exact opposite of what Democrats promised it would do. On the other hand, this law includes the largest health care tax cut in history for middle class families, helping to make insurance much more affordable for millions of families. The Affordable Care Act has been widely discussed and debated, but remains widely misunderstood.
Raising taxes on the top two percent of Americans will have a reverse effect on fighting inflation. They’ll move out of taxable income and depend on lower taxed sources of wealth which in return will slow down demand and create a slower economy. Inflation will continue creating stagflation. The wealthy will eventually move down tax brackets resulting in a larger middle class. Doing so will decrease optimism and the drive for success among Americans and the dream for a better l...
Fighting the cost of college tuition is a hot topic these days. As long as I can remember, tuition has always been a reason why most people don 't pursue their bachelor’s or even associate degree. Today 's society has changed students are fighting for grants, financial aid, and even loans to pay through school. In order to be financially comfortable in the 15th century a college education is a must. It is an everyday battle getting financial support from a college’s administration. Colleges need to be more affordable, obtaining funds less stressful, and colleges must enact policies that condone these principles.
This proves that trying to raise taxes on one group of people and not raise them on another group is a hard thing to accomplish. John Kartch, a journalist for American’s for Tax Reforms, wrote an article about the taxes that were introduced after the implementation of Obamacare. “…among the 20 new or higher taxes in Obamacare, at least seven directly hit families making less than $250,000 per year” (Para. 1). One of the things Obamacare was trying to avoid was placing higher taxes on the middle class, and instead of preventing that, higher taxes smacked the middle class directly in the face. This angered the middle class, seeing as they were promised no raised taxes, and once again made Obama and Obamacare look bad. Author Marcia Angell, from Harvard’s medical school, believes there is only one way to go about covering the entire nation under Obamacare. “The only way to provide health care to all Americans at an affordable cost is by instituting some form of publicly-administered nonprofit system…” (2). By, “publicly-administered nonprofit system”, she means a system that supplies universal health care at half the cost, such as Medicare, which is a single-payer system. In 2009, Obama confirmed what Marcia Angell stated, and conveyed that the only way to cover everyone in the country with health insurance is to have a single-payer system, but failed to act on it. The only way Obama can ever accomplish what he is aiming to do is by following his own words and creating a single-payer plan. Otherwise Obamacare will continue to struggle and may never be
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, shields about 800,000 illegal immigrants from deportation. Though many people think illegal immigrants bring crime, DACA recipients bring almost no crime rates to this country. Many DACA recipients were brought to the United States unwillingly at a young age. As adults, DACA recipients do the duties of any other citizen, but they are not allowed to become citizens. DACA recipients, or Dreamers, should become citizens because they give little to no threat to the United States, have little relation to their ‘home’ country, and perform the rights of any citizen.
President Trump announced in September that he was ending the program, DACA, and gave Congress until March 5th to come up with a legislative solution. DACA, short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was a program developed during Obama’s presidency to protect deportation of immigrant children who came to the United States, nicknamed the DREAMers according to USA Today. However, Newsweek announced that a definite plan cannot be made due to contradicting beliefs among Congress about what should happen to the DREAMers, the nearly 800,000 immigrants that fall under the protection of the DACA program.
I am willing to pay higher taxes to solve the health care crisis because I would rather pay a few percent of my salary and have a much better health care insurance for my family than paying $150-$300 every time I go visit the doctor.
Imagine waking up in a place you have no recollection of, with no home, no family or friends, and a tongue you can’t fathom. With no money, and in a place where labor is scarce and pay isn’t enough to procure a full meal, much less decent shelter. The notion of this situation is unbearable and distraught,but for 700,000 immigrant teenagers and young adults currently living in the United States of America this scenario could become a reality. This group of the young American populous, known as Dreamers, are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA) program. DACA’s main goal is to grant legal status for all the people that were brought into the United States as children by their parents; these subjects had no choice in their actions, therefore President Obama saw fit to create a program that will aid them and allow them to work legally. However, the current president of the country, Donald Trump, rescinded this program on September 5, 2017, giving them until the expiration date of their work permit to have legal status in the country, and that could be as soon as March 6, 2018. Once the permit is expired, the subject is viable for deportation, having shared with the government trustworthy information about their illegal entry into the
In our opinion government spending is better than tax cuts. Government spending increases the employment as well as the income of the people of the country, though tax cut only increases the wealth of the people who may not spend the extra money earned and help in the growth of the economy.
For the past three decades minimum wage has been seen to rise several times. Only helping some but more than anything harming most. So who are the ones feeling the effects? Certainly not the wealthy, it never is them, mainly it would be the working poor, unskilled and teenagers. Raising minimum wage would cripple the public even more than what it would actually help.