# Taxes, the election and you **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054 "2008-10-08T20:00:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 55
### Author: ![Blackbelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackbelt/32/5998_2.png) [@Blackbelt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blackbelt) #### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054/55 "2008-10-15T15:19:51Z")
> [@winter beater roll call](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/winter-beater-roll-call/38342/32): > > you keep bringing up the past…that is not going to work now. the way our economy is right now, if you give the rich the money, they are not going to “trickle it down” to the middle & lower class by creating jobs, etc…they are going to invest overseas, or secure it in other ways. you need to give the cuts to the middle class who do all the spending, therefore it will increase demand & that will spark growth. I’m not talking about using the money for condoms & clean needles…i’m talking taking the strain off the middle class. taxes are going to go up, period… i just think that giving the breaks to the rich & big business @ this point in time is not the way. Ever hear the expression “Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it”? Of course i bring up the past, becasue i use the past to illustrate that supply side economics works. It worked in teh 60’s, it worked in the 80’s, and it can work now also. Of course you need to give tax cuts to the middle class. That is one of the things Reagan did. EVERYONE should get a tax cut. Washington doesn’t have so much a tax problem as they have a SPENDING problem. But you said that supply side doesn’t work, and i provided facts that demonstrate that it does indeed work. Of course, i had to go into the past the get the facts. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054)._