Tax the lower class, not the upper class. Reaganomics, my boy.
You can quit being smug, "my boy". Earlier you were complaining about taxes and now you're saying that the lower class should be taxed. Totally works out because they make enough money, rite. Sit down.
it gives assloads of money to the government.
Not assloads, really. It gives some more but not really enough to like fix our economy.
The whole point of not extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy is that it just isn't necessary, there is no real reason to extend them because it's not like they need the money to survive considering they make so much of it. It's NOT for the purpose of trying to fix the economy, but there's no real justification for keeping them.
Yeah, it's a purely socialist idea, but at this point it's probably our best bet to help our economy even more. Nick is right, the economy isn't as bad as the media makes it out to be, but it's not entirely favorable compared to other countries. Our per capita GPD proves that.
The only economy I can think of that is going much faster than ours is China, and that's because they are our economic partner practically.