REPUBLICANS LOSE 'MARKET SHARE'

For many years, the Republican Party has been losing what business calls "market share". This means that there are fewer and fewer people "buying" the Republican Party.

The Republican Party has responded by gerrymandering so that there are as many Republican safe districts as possible.

The Republicans have also conned us into passing laws requiring a "super majority" to raise taxes, giving them almost absolute power to block the ability of governments to pass rational tax policy. Taxes were the only item where people could be conned into replacing the "majority rules" part of the basic political philosophy of the US Constitution. Except for the Senate, of course. The Senate was conned into dropping the "you must be speaking" rule, turning the filibuster into an unconstitutional requirement for a super majority in the Senate.

All this left the Republicans with only ONE non religious issue. Taxes became THE ISSUE of the Republican Party. The Republicans have been using the threat to vote against taxes to control the majority. And you all fell for it.

Now the Republicans are AGAIN using the long con called the "fiscal cliff" . They are saying AGAIN, "we will let the country go down the tubes in order to protect the rich from paying taxes."

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE SLOW LEARNERS. Paying the average person ONE dollar, puts FIVE dollars into the economy. This makes more money available to both the rich and the poor.

Putting one dollar into the hands of a rich man may put only one dollar into the economy, especially if the rich man is a Scrooge.

THE RICH DO NOT MAKE US RICHER, PEOPLE MAKING A LIVING WAGE MAKES US ALL RICHER. IT DOES NOT HURT THE ECONOMY TO TAX THE RICH. It just gives the Republicans an issue that they can "sell" to people who do not understand macro economics.