so we arent growing because we are overtaxed? Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found. Some conservative political movements such as the "Tea Party" have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels. Federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. That rate is far below the historic average of 12% for the last half-century. The overall tax burden hit bottom in December at 8.8.% of income before rising slightly in the first three months of 2010. http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm
The problem is that personal income tax is not leveled nearly as broadly as before and all of that spending means taxes in the future. That you cannot see this as a problem is exactly why there is a"TEA" party.
can you give a probability that Carter fixed the country? the guy with the malaise speech. You must remember how bad it was... we got happy because at least our hockey team could beat the russians. Here is the malaise speech by the way. I am sure you will like it. Carter even highlighted some of the complaints against him. http://www.rightwingnews.com/speeches/carter.php
the tea party is mostly a collection of older lower educated,religious wackos and conspiricy nuts whipped into a frenzy by fox news. the main mantra for them is keep the government out of my medicare.
75% are college educated. Neither "average Americans," as they like to portray themselves, nor trailer-park "Deliverance" throwbacks, as their lefty detractors would have us believe, tea partyers are more highly educated and wealthier than the rest of America. Nearly 75% are college educated, and two-thirds earn more than $50,000. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/editpost.php?s=&action=editpost&postid=3088066
I don't recall ever saying Carter fixed the economy. I don't think any one president can fix the economy, especially these days of a global economy. Carter was right about energy though, and the people didn't want to hear it. So here we are, 30 years later, still at the mercy of foreign oil... I am noting for the record that you didn't provide any meaningful proof that Reagan "fixed" the economy. The odds are just as great that his efforts set the trend in motion that we are suffering from now... What I do know about the Reagan era, is that greed became a virtue, and excess became a virtue, and living beyond one's means became a virtue, etc.
Typical lie-bral tactic , red herring personal (group) attack (denigration) to change the subject. Now what about all of this runaway debt problem and the over spending.
A new CNN poll sheds light on who makes up the Tea Party movement. According to the results, tea partiers are richer, more male and have more education than the general population. Eleven percent of respondents to the poll said that they had in someway participated in the tea party movement, either by going to a rally, donating money, or "taking some other active step to support the movement." The demographics among that 11% are much different from the rest of the U.S. population. "Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas," CNN reports. "Nearly three quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than three in four call themselves conservatives." Sixty-six percent of the tea party activists reported an income higher than $50,000 per year. Among the overall sample in the poll, that figure was 42%. The group is 80% white, as opposed to 71% among all respondents to the poll. Politically, the figures are not a surprise. Forty-four percent of tea partiers called themselves "Republican," while 52% said they were independent. Among all those polled by CNN, 25% were Republicans while 44% were independents. A third self-identified as Democrats. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/meet-the-tea-partiers-male-rich-and-college-educated.php