On this day (December 6) in the year 1982, I, Ulysses S. Arn was born.  At that point in time President Reagan was in the midst of drastically cutting the tax rates for every American.  28 years later Congressional Republicans are in the middle of trying to keep everyones tax rates the same.  The progressive liberal socialist Marxist Democrats are belly-aching, complaining, whining, waging Marxist class warfare and anything else they can think of to raise taxes on the nations small business owners aka "The Rich". 

One of the popular claims of the left is that allowing the existing tax rates to remain as they are for those who make over $200K for individuals and $250K for couples will add $700 Billion to the debt/deficit .  I would be willing to insert here a bit of data or cite a piece from one of my fellow conservatives refuting that claim, but it would be a wasted effort, one you(my fellow conservatives and tea party patriots) already know that $700 Billion claim of the left to be B.S, two left-wingers would not be phased by it, they'd continue regurgitating the line either tell their talking points script is changed or a Democratic pollster/focus group shows them that track is not gaining traction with the public and move on to some other polled and/or focused grouped phrase to try and further their aims of profligate spending and higher taxation.

In place of that I am going to pose this about raising taxes on the "Rich".  How many jobs won't be created because the people most likely to create them are having the money they would have used towards that end confiscated so as to say continue to offer unemployment benefits to the people who would have been hired had the money not been taken out of the economy in the first place?

Trillions upon Trillions of dollars in debt and deficits are bad and the simple fact is one of the only ways to tackle that problem is to grow the economy, putting people back to work, thereby enabling them to take care of their needs, wants and desires themselves, thus reducing, if not eliminating their need to be sustained by governmental welfare programs.  With less demand on those programs comes the ability to cut Government spending further hacking away at the debt and deficits.

It is a very, very old truism that the people who create jobs are those favorite targets of the lefts demonization, the awful, if not down right evil, "Rich" people who are the owners of this nations business's both large and small.

Ask yourself this, as the left-wing minority of the country continues to claimer to raise taxes on the small business's who employ the majority of the public.  When was the last time a "Poor" person gave you a job?  Answer, never.

Allowing taxes to be raised on anyone, let alone small business owners is a surefire way to keep the national unemployment rate at 9.8% along with all the other rot-gut that comes from a recession/depression/malaise.

We can do better than taking even more from those who are successful, working, trying to grow the economy and have the most potential to create jobs.  We can do better than 15 million people out of work.  We can do better than continually spending gargantuan sums of money with no results(unless you count treading water and failure as good things to do with tax payer dollars).  We can do better than an ever increasing and expanding Federal Government.

At one point in this nations history we did do better.  Once upon a time we created and filled 19 million jobs, doubled revenue to the Treasury and enabled an entire generations worth of economic growth and prosperity all from the simple little concept of allowing the American people to keep more of that which they earned, so that they could spend, save, invest or give to charity as they saw fit.

Because, President Reagan cut taxes across the board and trusted that an individual knew best how to utilize their money we prospered like never before.

It is entirely possible for us to replicate those results from the 1980s, but first Congress and the President have to keep the existing tax rates as they are for all Americans, poor, middle class and yes even rich, so that there is a stable footing to work under while the national debate is pushed, pulled and dragged kicking and screaming towards adoption of either the Flat Tax or the Fair Tax our time periods version of Reagan's across the board tax cuts.