Labor organizations support American jobs working in America. They sponsor Democrats. Major corporations support low costs and high profits best served by sending work over seas or cutting salaries and benefits to American Workers...they support Republicans.
Supporting Republicans means support for deregulation and more corporate profits. Regulations are in place for one reason, to serve as the moral and ethical throttle on profit driven corporations who have only their self interest at heart. Failed regulations under the Bush ( and prior ) administrations led to the near collapse of Wall Street, to the collapse of the housing market and even to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Corporations/Republicans hate regulations.
Taxes: Breaks and subsidies for the rich and their corporations.
As a result of President George W. Bush's $1.35 trillion tax break bill enacted into law in 2001 - a bill that was not paid for and that contributed greatly to the current federal deficit - heirs to multi-million and billion dollar fortunes are able to receive their entire inheritance free of federal taxes, costing at least $14.8 billion in lost revenue in 2010 alone.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on the Senate floor said this, "And the Republican hypocrisy is about to advance to a whole new level. In the name of "fiscal responsibility" they are opposing virtually every effort to help the middle class and working families of our country. But, when it comes to the needs of millionaire and billionaire families, they have no problem reducing revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, they are deficit hawks when it comes to the needs of ordinary people, but they are big spenders when it comes to the needs of the rich. "
The CBO and Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation said earlier this year that extending the original Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy would increase budget deficits by $2.56 trillion during this decade. That money saved by the rich typically goes into savings or to purchase stocks and bonds and does not circulate to boost the economy. Unemployment benefits, on the other hand are spent immediately to buy food and pay rent and are circulated back into the economy at once. What they buy maintains and creates jobs.
Religion: Forget it. It plays no role in any of this other than it's underhanded manipulation by conservatives to seek support for their otherwise fiscally unsupportable policies. In no administration in history has yours or anyone else's religious freedoms ever been attacked by Congress or the President. But Republicans will lie and distort even religion to obtain their ultimate goal of converting the US to one controlled by and for the wealthy few at the expense of the rest of us.
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