ignorance needed to pass an agenda

Politicians, mostly Democrats these days push for policies (their agenda) by using talking points that are easily proven wrong with just a smidgen of evidence. Lets look at it...

Those who favor larger government control over our lives often try to discredit our founding fathers by misrepresenting some of their Constitutional ideas. One of the most often misrepresentations used is the three-fifths compromise. Rhetoric such as: "They only counted black people as 3/5 a person!" "How can we listen to these people when they considered my people (this is said by a Black American liberal) 3/5 a person?!"

Politicians are often pretty intelligent people. They know what the 3/5 compromise really was. But that means nothing to them when they are trying to push an agenda through. But with a public that is as undereducated as our public is, its easy to see why they choose to speak in talking points and not reality. Even some of my readers might not be able to defend this example. The three-fifths compromise counted slaves as 3/5 a person when counting for the House of Representatives and for the electoral college. IN other words, if slaves were counted as a whole person for these considerations, it would have made the southern slave states even stronger politically. This would have in effect hurt the African American at the time.

Tax cuts for the rich is another issue. What is rich? Some say its an income of $250,000 a year or more. But many small businesses that just get by file taxes under individual income. If their company has revenue of just over $250,000 they might be taxed at that top income bracket percentage. Thus to lower taxes for small businesses would require you to lower the tax rate on the highest income tax bracket. Politicians know this. But they public often does not.

These are also the people that hire individuals. So do corporations. The fact is, lowering these taxes often allows companies to expand and become larger. This in effect can actually increase the amount of taxes these rich people pay because of increased wealth and increased incentive to move operations back to America. This is seen throughout history where lowering these taxes has led to economic expansion and increased government revenue. Also corporations do not pay taxes only people do. Higher taxes on corporations means one of three things: higher prices for consumers, lower pay for workers, lower dividends for investors.

Lastly is Rent Control laws: Designed to keep the price of rent lower in low income areas actually has the opposite affect. I have explained the affects of this in other blog entries. You can read those to understand that. But the two most prominent cities with strong rent control laws are San Francisco and New York City. These two cities also have some of the highest rent prices despite these controls. Politicians know this but the public does not.

Our job: Become educated and vote out these politicians that no longer can take advantage of our ignorance.