Forum Post: Grover Norquist is finally losing
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 8:04 a.m. EST by bensdad
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40 REPUBLICAN congress people signed a letter - advocating tax increases
most of them signed the Grover pledge!
They probably want to "broaden the base". This means tax increases on the little guy. Should be the other way around.
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Florida is touting the new jobs it created Friday after a positive unemployment report. But based on numbers from all W-2’s filed in the country, the wages simply aren’t keeping up.
According to the Social Security Administration, 50 percent of U.S. workers made less than $26,364 in 2010. In addition, those making less than $200,000, or 99 percent of Americans, saw their earnings fall by $4.5 billion collectively.
The sobering numbers were a far cry from what was going on for the richest one percent of Americans.
The incomes of the top one percent of the wage scale in the U.S. rose in 2010; and their collective wage earnings jumped by $120 billion.
In addition, those earning at least $1 million a year in wages, which is roughly 93,000 Americans, reported payroll income jumped 22 percent from 2009.
Overall, the economy has shed 5.2 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession in 2007. It’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930’s.
i dont think this is the R "broaden the base" bs
if they are willing to cross King Grover - I believe it is based on their fear of people like us who are fed up with their loyalty to the king in stead of loyalty to America
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