Another graph to show you that worker wages are still
not in good shape. In fact, the median income for men went down by 2.5% in 2011, to about $48,202. And it wasn't any better for women, whose median income also dropped by 2.5% in 2011, to about $38,118. And the wage gap between men and women didn't close any in the last year (or actually in any year since about 2000). Women still make about 77% of what men make for the same work.
But have no fear. Willard Mitt Romney (aka Wall Street Willie) wants to give a tax cut -- to the rich. Anyone making the median income will get to pay for Willard's tax cut by seeing their taxes go up by about $2000. Makes you want to run right out and vote Republican, doesn't it?
That is a massive non sequiter. What does tax cuts for the rich have to do with declining wages for the middle class? And the fact that wages are declining under a Democratic administration certainly doesn't make me want to vote Democratic.
ReplyDeleteI know you tried for a tie-in with the $2000 tax increase for middle class, but wages and taxes are two separate subjects. A more pertinent question would be to ask what is either party doing which would lead to reversing the trend and causing wages to rise? Democrats don't have a good answer for that question, so we play the diversion game by changing the subject to taxes.
Democrats have a good answer for that, we are now the party of tax cuts, accusing Republicans of being the party of wild spending and tax increases. That is a 180 degree turn from the historical roles of the parties, and proves that actual principles are irrelevant; that parties will adopt whatever tactics appeal to the sentiment of the moment and which present them with the most likely road to victory.
I never tried for a tie-in at all. It is the Republicans who want to tie wages to tax cuts -- which of course is ridiculous.
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