DailyKos -- Commenter at CNN.com "Please tax me!"

From Daily Kos Sept 17, 2008 Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread

Commenter at CNN.com:

Republicans lowered my taxes, and will keep them low. But the value of my home has dropped 20%, my health insurance costs have doubled, gas costs $4 a gallon, and my investments are in the tank. Please, tax me.

This would make a great campaign ad, a "Harry and Louise" kind of ad. Tell the story, Obama, about how Republican deregulation policies have injured Americans not in the upper economic classes. This commenter's post is the perfect storyline for a TV ad. Make it a storyline, not a laundry list of issues or reasons not to vote for McCain.

“When we last had a Democratic President, my taxes were slightly higher but I was better off financially and the country had a budget surplus!”

Harry: “Republicans lowered our taxes, but the value of our home has dropped 20%, our health insurance costs have doubled, gas costs $4 a gallon, and our investments are in the tank. “

Louise: “When we last had a Democratic President, our taxes were slightly higher but we were better off financially and the country had a budget surplus!”

Harry and Louise: “You can’t trust Republicans with your money! Vote for Obama/Biden! ”

Obama: “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.”


FYI: “You can’t trust Republicans with your money! “ is from Howard Dean. It was a great line of his.

I'd rather be taxed. Although, since I don't make 250k, when Obama's elected, things will be that much sweeter for me.

George W. Bush and the Republican ideology today are the fulfillment of Reaganism -- "government is the problem" mentality.

President Bush decided to gamble with his newly refreshed political capital and started his Privatize Social Security campaign. Our Dem leaders in Congress thought about entertaining privatizing or partial privatizing it, but it was the progressive blogs and Labor that made the case to the American People that Social Security is one of the governments most successfull programs and should not be gambled away in the stock market. The American people responded in polls that they liked SS they way it was and then our Dem leaders became defenders of SS against privatizing. That tour of Bush's is what started the downward slide for him. He could not delude Americans about SS thanks to progressive blogs and Labor.

Cindy Sheehan's stand in Crawford, TX also helped keep Bush's popularity on the downward trek and then Katrina hit New Orleans and Bush has never recovered in the polls from that natural disaster. The recent economic woes will further sink the Republican mantra that government is the problem and should not regulate Big Business and banks. It took a Great Depression to shake Americans out of "Business is good for America" ideology in the early 20th century. The current economic woes will do the same. But hopefully we're not headed towards another Great Depression.