Last year, Elizabeth Warren shot to stardom in progressive circles when she explained in a speech that successful business-people didn't achieve that success without help from the wider society, which funded the roads, schools, and other public goods that their enterprises rely on. This week, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who Warren is challenging this fall, turned that argument into an attack on Warren, painting her as an enemy of small business.
On PoliticsNation Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton gave Warren a chance to respond. And in doing so, she gave a remarkably lucid and elegant summary of the basic differences in outlook not just between herself and Brown, but between the two competing political movements today.
Said Warren:
I love small businesses. My daughter started a small business, my brother started a small business, my aunt Alice started a small business, I worked in it when I was a teenager. This is really about a basic question of fairness. And that is, when big businesses really make it big, should they get the special tax breaks so that they don't have to make the contributions to help support all of the basic infrastructure—you know, the roads and bridges and the schools and all those pieces, the basic infrastructure that lets the next kid make it big, and the next kid after that, and the next kid after that? You know, the way I see this, this is really about the basic question of how we build our future. The Republicans have given their vision of how we build our future—they've said, 'I got mine, the rest of you are on your own'. Our vision of how you build a future is that you make the investments forward, so every kid has a chance. That's what this is really about.
Hard to put it better than that.
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I wish every politician had as much good sense as Elizabeth Warren. The world would be a lot better place.
Are you serious?
I'll bet you had a tough time in school. Did you ever learn the saying ..."Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
Here is what she said the Obama was repeating the jist ......
Said Warren:
So Stinky (-bo) and Lizzy the liar don't think that GE and Jeffy Imult shouldn't or should pay taxes? So Stinky and Lizzy think that GE should close lightbulb operations in Virginia and move to China because they can't make incandescents because congress said they're bad, but the CFLs can't be made here because Stinks, Lizzy, and the EPA think it's too "dirty" to make here? Is that what they mean?
Has Stinks ever signed the FRONT of a paycheck?
If you look at what her intentions are, what she's saying is:
Tax, Tax, Tax, Spend, Redistribute, Deficit Spend.
She is not for small business. She is for regulations, onerous taxation and redistributing others wealth to her followers.
Besides, she's a sociopathic liar. She's not indian, has never been indian and her family helped track and put indians on reservations. Who needs her if she can't tell the truth??
Of course it was business that PAID for ALL of those things. We should be a society that reveres small business (not sure about big business).
President Stinky (-bo) is all about big business, big unions, big government. He'll regulate small business out of business, and give GE and his pal Jeffy a pass. He'll get on his knees for union thugs, and tell non-union workers they have no right to work.
November is time to get the Stink out of the White House.
Ms Warren said "Our vision of how you build a future is that you make the investments forward, so every kid has a chance. That's what this is really about."
Assuming that she is an ardent supporter of minimum wage laws that restrict the entry of young people into the work force I find her statement quite disingenuous and hypocritical. She cannot speak glowingly of the importance of small businesses while curtailing the opportunities of younger workers.
It might have been allegedly lucid but if only 100 people hear it what differencce does it make. Now if she had said it on a show on FOX it might have carried some weight.
I have refrained from calling Obuma a Socialist, because I always believed that he wasn't that bad, but now I firmly believe he is.
What is Elizabeth Warren even arguing? What tax breaks do big corporations get that small business don't? If there is something wrong there, then lets fix that. Lets talk specifics. But don't dole out the agenda that the government needs to crimp down on those who are successful. That's what has made America so great.
A perfect example of what is wrong with Obama Philosophy is Americas same treating of the American Indians. They have become enslaved to big government and their handouts.
Wow, the trolls are moving here.
The GOP is about stealing wealth from 99% of Americans, and giving it to the richest few. They sit on Trillions of profits they made by detroying our jobs, supporting slave labor in china, and cheeting on taxes that the rest of us have to pay.
There is a Storm Coming, be on the right side of it.
Until the Romney's, Waltons and Koch's feel the pain the rest of us have to feel, untill their family suffers like the families of children and loved ones who die slow aganizing deaths for lack of healthcare, there will be no change.
Feel the change in the weather? There is a Storm Coming.
Why do you want those families to suffer? What have they stole from you? I don't know the Koch's, but I know the Waltons and Mitt have created way more jobs then were lost. I know they had a positive impact on society. I know that teaching a man to fish, is way more productive then giving him fish for the day. Wake up and put a positive impact on society and stop being a burden!
Tax the Rich!
Eliminate tax loopholes!
Eliminate Corporate subsidies!
Regulate Wall Street!
Bust up the “Too big to fail” banks!
Cut the Military!
Universal Healthcare!
Free College Education for EVERYONE that can keep a 3.0gpa
or better!
Invest in New Energy technologies!
Invest in infrastructure!
More Strict environmental regulations!
Eliminate Prohibition!
Those are the policies that will make our country Great
again. Those who think we are still the "Greatest" country don't know
or don't care about the FACTS!
I can think of some things she should have addressed. "Big" businesses factor the cost of the products and services they sell into the price for the "little" consumer. Why wouldn't they consider the cost of taxes when determining the price for their goods and services or when determining the wages they pay their employees? If they do, doesn't this mean the burden of the tax is on the consumers and/or the people they employ? It seems to me, that all taxes are ultimately borne by humans; therefore, we must determine which humans bear the burden of the tax. Will the people running a company decide to bear the burden of a tax by decreasing their own salaries? Or will they decide to factor it into the price of their goods and services or into their employees wages, thus passing the burden to the consumer and/or their employees? I don't trust in the benevolence of CEOs; therefore, I believe corporate taxes are a deceptive way to tax the common people. As to the fairness, when a business uses roads and infrastructure to stock its shelves, it doesn't do do this for the fun of it. It does this to provide me with products that I desire. The business doesn't produce and/or deliver these products for its own pleasure; it provides them to me for my pleasure. Why shouldn't I have to pay the full cost for what I consume for my pleasure? Why should the business be taxed for using roads to deliver a product to me that I desired, shouldn't I pay for that? It seems unfair to me to shift the cost of my consumption to someone else.
You know the right thing has been said when the other side gets it's panties in such a bunch, as shown here.