"The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalleled At Catastrophe"

 

Republican Rule And Economic Catastrophe, A Lockstep Relationship

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/republican-rule-and-economic.html

"Why The Economy Has Done Better Under Democratic Presidents"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-economy-has-done-better-under.html

The Economy Grows Way Faster Under Democratic Presidents. Catastrophes Occur Under Republicans

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-economy-grows-way-faster-under-dem.html

Stock Market Performance By President
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/stock-market-performance-by-president.html

"Thirty Years Of Conservative Nonsense: An Explainer." Are Conservatives Ever Right?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-facts-are-in-republican-party-is.html

"Presidents And The Economy. Who Was Best, Worst? Take The Christian Science Monitor Quiz."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/presidents-and-economy-who-was-best.html

Republican Strongholds Cut Taxes, Wreak Economic Havoc
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/10/kansas-tax-cuts-weigh-on-neighboring-missouri-/13850019/

"Politics and Economics: The "101" courses you wish you had..."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

Taxes Are The Price We Pay For Civilization
Conservative Americans oppose sufficient taxation to keep civilization healthy.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html 

"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

The Most Rabid Republican House Districts Are Economic Debacles

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-most-rabid-republican-house.html

"Red State Moocher Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/red-state-moocher-links.html

Benjamin Franklin On "No New Taxes!"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html

Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris

25 Dec. 1783

"The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.

All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."  http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Most wealthy Americans 
-- on whom the burden should rest --
refuse to pay enough tax to maintain the fundaments of healthy civilization.

And so -- to quote Unpotty-Trained-74-Year-Old -- we are becoming a "shithole country."

1910 Income Tax Promised To Never Shift Burden From Richest 1 - 4%

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/1910-income-tax-legislation-promised-to.html

 
House rules.

"The Rest" Of The 1910 Income Tax Story

detailed by UM-Amherst Professor Emeritus Richard Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XAS3ORhEg

Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/billionaire-nick-hanauers-ted-talk.html