Conservative Numbskulls. The People Who Need Help Most Can't Use Tax Credits!

Italian Proverb: "A full belly does not believe in hunger."

Alan: Flat cortex conservatives keep suggesting "tax credits" as a solution to social and political problems. Look! Mitt Romney famously pointed out that 47% of Americans don't pay any federal or taxes. So... What, prithee, is the benefit of tax credits to those Americans most in need of relief?

Business Insider puts the percentage of citizen "parasites" at 43% - http://www.businessinsider.com/43-of-americans-dont-pay-federal-income-tax-2013-9.

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Obamacare worsens economic inequality. "The best available evidence suggests that most of the lag in earnings growth for low income workers relative to high income workers can be attributed to the rapid increase in the cost of health insurance benefits provided to workers by employers. More importantly, because of its flawed design, Obamacare will aggravate this problem even further among large firm workers and create unnecessary distortions that will be particularly pronounced in the labor markets for low-wage workers....A far more sensible approach that would avoid all these economic distortions and attendant adverse effects on economic inequality is to get rid of the individual and employer mandates entirely and to make all Americans eligible for standardized tax credits." Chris Conover in Forbes.

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The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this. 

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"Obamacare And The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-fact-of.html