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Good Luck Getting Us to the Polls November 6th, Mr. President

Jul. 20, 2012 1:25pm

Celia Bigelow is conservative columnist. She’s a frequent guest on television and radio shows across the country and often writes for CNS News and Fox Nation.

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Do you remember opening your first paycheck and gasping at the amount of money the government took from your earnings? Maybe that gut-wrenching feeling is still a reality.

A recent poll by McClatchy-Marist showed that an overwhelming 69 percent of 18-29 year olds support universal tax cuts, while only 29 percent oppose it.

This isn’t surprising.

Young people love freedom, they love earning their way, and they love success. When the freedom and opportunity to work hard and reap the fruits of that labor is taken away, it hurts. This is exactly what big government has achieved.

Big government policies are only making it harder for young people to find jobs. The latest labor report showed that youth unemployment is nearly 17 percent—more than double the national average.

This too is not surprising.

The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire in 2013. The current Administration has only proposed to extend the tax cuts for those making under $250,000 a year. Unfortunately, this will only hurt job creation, not help it.

According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), 75 percent of small businesses pay taxes on their businesses income at the individual rate. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates that the tax-hike would hit around 940,000 small businesses. The JCT also shows that President Obama’s plan for massive tax hikes would mean higher taxes on 53 percent of business income reported on individual returns. Small businesses employ more than 25 percent of the total workforce. Raising taxes on businesses would threaten these jobs in a time when job creation is most needed.

It is no wonder that young people can’t find jobs. Young American’s are forced to compete with hundreds of thousands of unemployed people that have more experience and seniority. Businesses can’t afford to expand, and if they do they aren’t hiring inexperienced Millenials.

The more money that is taken out of the private sector, the less money businesses have on hand to expand and hire workers. Tax hikes force businesses to scale back, and jobs are the excess fat that must be trimmed.

We don’t have to look far back in history to show that universal tax cuts lead to job creation.

President Reagan inherited an anemic economy plagued with high unemployment and inflation. Rather than pointing fingers at others, Reagan took the bull by the horns and slashed taxes by 25 percent across the board. The results were amazing.

At the beginning of his administration, the peak unemployment rate for 18-24 year olds was 15 percent. By the end it had dropped to 8.6 percent—just around our current national average.

In fact, in just the first three years of the Reagan presidency youth unemployment dropped 3 percent. Can we say the same for President Obama? No.

Rather than taking the necessary steps to reduce unemployment, President Obama continually makes a case for class warfare. The result: the unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent for 42 straight months, and youth unemployment is rising at an even faster pace.

President Obama’s blame tactics and Robin Hood rhetoric is proven null and void in Reagan’s shadow, and young people are starting to realize this. 77 percent of young people supported President Obama in 2008, while only 48 percent support him today. With youth unemployment continually on the rise and young people being forced to put their careers on hold, President Obama is going to have a terrible time getting them to the polls.

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nocommie
Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:24am
I hope and pray that you young people get a chance to live free and not under Obama socialism.If you do not vote him out,you will not have a job,you will be in debt to a socialist gov,and that’s not a good thing.He has you right where he wants you right now.WAKE UP or pay the price

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- BlessedGirls2
  Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:36pm
  Most young people have benefited from Pell Grants and low interest rate Government Loans..so now you want them to whaaaaaaaaaaat ! yeah right..they know who keeps water in the well for them!
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:00am
I hope you are correct about the young folk waking up! I also hope that a bunch of liberal Catholics, and Jews have received the wake up call.

Now, I am going to try one more time; corporations DO NOT pay taxes! They do collect them, but, they do pass them on to the government for mismanagement.

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- zipzap
  Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:22am
  C-Corps pay taxes. S-Corps pass the tax obligation through to the share-holders. If you’re talking about payroll withholding, yes both would collect and remit to the treasury, but in fact as I mentioned, corporations ARE taxed.
  
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RebelPatriot
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:15am
Let’s hope they don’t have to suffer through 50 years of socialist control before figuring out the Utopia they dream of, is nothing more than elitist control of the one’s they intentionally misguide.

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- woodyl1011fl
  Posted on July 23, 2012 at 8:26am
  These same elitist Marxists control the entire government education establishment and we are now reaping the evil they have sown. But perhaps there is real hope and change coming in November. If enough of these young people see that what they have been taught for sixteen years are lies and deception and they realize it is not just Obama but every democrat in the US Senate, the majority of democrats in the US House then vote against them we have a chance to survive as a free people. Democrat candidates for both houses are just the same as the lying, deceiving, Fascist Marxist, atheist professors and teachers they have had indoctrinating them from K through university/college. All of us must remember that many of the graduates of previous decades are judges and work in the bureaucracies state and federal. So there is more to clean out than just Congress and the White House. those two are easier than the last two will be but equally as important.
  
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DodgerVet
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:26pm
I hope you are right. I worry being a recent college grad myself that the University system is not creating responsible educated people but instead misinformed lemmings.

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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:43am
  Well that is still true. However, people like yourself and Celia are bright enough to have figured that out.
  The lemmings will be working for you and you will have the opportunity to set them straight.
  
  Good luck, America’s future depends on you.
  
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- zipzap
  Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:24am
  The great news is that a good percentage of bright graduates eventually learn that much of what they paid for was an utter waste of money. That is why America is predominantly center right. You can’t fool ALL the students ALL the time. Eventually they get out into the real world where life is the best educator.
  
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- BlessedGirls2
  Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:38pm
  Get to work young graduate and help make this a better place to live and work…
  
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TAXEVERYONE
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:27pm
Well said.
Our educated responsible young people still believe in what made our country great.

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