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Inside this issue:
Trickle Down Economics 1
Chairman’s Message 1
Jackie Robinson 2
Trickle Down(continued) 2
Jackie Robinson(continued) 3
Trickle Down (continued) 3
Voter Registration/Events 4
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Which is older? The U.S. personal income tax code or the abuse of it by
politicians?
The answer, of course, is the income tax code – but not by much. It came into being in 1913 and within just four years the top rate was raised from 7% to 77%. It has been nothing but politi-cal games and false rhetoric ever
since.
The Revenue Act of 1913 had a top rate of just 7%. It was raised to 77% by Democrat Wilson, then brought down to 25% by Republicans Harding and Coolidge, then raised to 63% by Republican Hoover, then even higher under Democrats Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Truman to 94%. Demo-crat Kennedy’s ideas brought the top rate down to 70% and then Republican Reagan dropped it to the high 20s. After Reagan, it was raised again and has been hovering in the high 30s
ever since.
Overall, just 2% of American house-holds were subject to the original 1913 income tax. Over time, that percentage
increased until FDR extended that burden to 85% with his Victory Tax for World War II. Since then, politicians have reversed course and slowly but surely reduced that 85% figure to the point where 45% of American house-holds pay no federal income tax at all. The new income tax law will likely
increase those who do not.
All of that in about 100 years. Given another 100 years, there is no reason to believe tomorrow’s politicians will be
any better.
Why won’t they learn from the past?
It is plain and simple. American tax policy is about politics – not about collecting money and certainly not
about economics.
Indeed, from the beginning, the mod-ern-day income tax has been about class warfare politics. Teddy Roosevelt was the force behind implementing the existing taxation of corporations and individuals. His rallying cry for his cause was what he termed the “irresponsible wealth” of the economic
titans of the late 1800s – a period
known as The Gilded Age.
Also, and nearly as soon as the income tax came into being, presidents and satirists alike spoke of cutting income tax rates as an aspect of the theory that “prosperity would trickle down to the bottom of the heap and benefit all”
– a line written for FDR.
Today the phrase “trickle-down eco-nomics” is the rallying call of the Left every time the subject of tax rate cuts or tax reform is being discussed. Their leaders, like Nancy Pelosi, go so far as to say that tax rate reductions, which result in government taking less of
someone’s money, is “theft.”
Theft from who you ask? They say rate cuts are the taking of money from the middle class and the poor and the
giving it to the rich.
Never mind that:
(1) it is a physical absurdity to say if government takes less from taxpayer A, they are doing so by taking from Trickle (continued on pg 2)
Trickle Down Economics Does Not Exist –The Benefits of Capitalism Do! By Tom Del Beccaro
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Trickle (continued from pg 1) tax-payer B - let alone giving something to
taxpayer A, and
(2) that 90% of all federal income taxes are paid by the top 20%. That statistic cannot be a surprise to any-one since 45% of American house-
holds pay no federal income tax at all.
All of which brings us to the fact that “trickle-down economics” is not real –
it is nothing but pure, cynical rhetoric.
Keep in mind that for most of man-kind’s existence, the overwhelming majority of people were poor – dirt poor. During that same period, the vast, vast majority of wealth and politi-cal power were held by the same people. As I wrote earlier in this col-
umn:
“If you lived in the Middle Ages, you lived in a system where those in politi-cal power, i.e. the king, nobles, gentry,
and churches, also owned the great-est accumulations of land – the wealth of the age. Your service to them was required and you were often tied to
their land.
That circumstance wasn’t confined to the West. Egypt, India, China and most everywhere in the world experi-enced some form of that political/economic structure. At its height, that system kept economic and political power among those very few. Social mobility was quite rare and, not sur-prisingly, almost all of the poor re-mained relatively poor – generation
after generation.”
The historian Will Durant referred to that as “equality in poverty” – it was life for all except for a very few at the top. As wealth began to evolve away from land, to items and then money, capitalism grew along with that evolu-
tion.
According to Durant, in the Lessons of
History:
“The capitalist, of course, has fulfilled a creative function in history: he has gathered the savings of the people into productive capital by the promise of dividends or interest; he has fi-nanced the mechanization of industry and agriculture, and the rationalization of distribution; and the result has been such a flow of goods from producer to consumer as history has never seen
before.”
The key to capitalism, of course, is right there in the word – capital. It is in the first sentence of Durant’s assess-ment. People save, which amounts to inequality over those who have not saved or cannot save. From that inequality of savings, businesses were started, whether it was a cart of fruit or a factory. Without that savings, without that Trickle (continued on pg 3)
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in 1919 in the Deep South to a sharecropper fami-ly, the youngest of five chil-dren. After his father left the family when Jackie was a year old, the family moved to Pasa-dena. Jackie’s mother worked a variety of jobs to support the family who took up residence at 121 Pepper Street in Pasa-dena. Jackie attended John Muir High School and Pasade-na Junior College. His older brother, Matthew Robinson “Mac” who won a silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics for the 200 m dash, encour-aged him to get involved in sports. Jackie played four sports in high school (football, basketball, track and baseball) and was named the region’s Most Valuable Player for base-
ball in 1938.
Jackie Robinson went to UCLA. He was the first stu-dent to win varsity letters in four sports: football, basket-ball, track and baseball. He met his future wife Rachel, a nursing student, while at UCLA. He was forced to leave UCLA shortly before
completing his degree due to financial difficulties. He moved to Hawaii to play a short sea-son of football for the Honolu-lu Bears. He returned to Los Angeles to play running back for the LA Bulldogs, but his football career was cut short with Pearl Harbor and the US
entry into WWII.
In 1942 Jackie Robinson was drafted into the US Army. He and several other black candi-dates applied to Officer Candi-date School. Although the Army guidelines for OCS were race neutral, their applications were delayed as few black sol-diers were admitted to OCS at that time. After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and intervention by civilian assistant aide to the Secretary of War Truman Gib-son, the group was admitted to OCS. This resulted in a lifelong friendship between Robinson and Louis. Jackie Robinson was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1943. His military career was derailed in 1944 when he was court-martialed for refusing to sit at the back of an unsegregated
Army bus line. During the in-quiry into the incident, he chal-lenged the investigating of-ficer’s racist line of question-ing. The officer subsequently recommended that he be court-martialed. After his commanding officer refused to proceed with the court-martial, Jackie was transferred to a different unit whereupon the new commanding officer promptly proceeded with the court-martial adding additional charges including public drunk-enness although he did not drink. He was eventually ac-quitted of all charges by an all white panel of nine officers. Although his unit saw combat, his court-martial barred him from being deployed overseas Jackie (continued on pg 3)
Trickle (continued from pg 2)
inequality, the ability to start a business would be
physically impossible.
Then, sooner or later, those start-up businesses hire workers. No restaurant today opens without workers, FED-EX needs employees to fly its planes and Face-
book needs many to code its website.
In time, sufficiently sustained and without undue burden by government, “the result has been such a flow of goods from producer to consumer as history
has never seen before.”
In other words, standards of living rise as a result savings, as a result of inequality, as a result of peo-ple keeping their own money and then using it. Those places where savings and inequality have been allowed to rise the most have seen the greatest gains. After all, some of the great advancements
require the highest level of investment and therefore savings, such as the car, the mobile phone, life-
saving drugs and more.
Indeed, the poor of today in America visit hospitals built on savings – hospitals unimaginable by the poor in most of the world and certainly the rest of history. They also learn in schools that afford “universal education” - an idea that only could be practiced in
the age of capitalists.
All that from savings. All that from inequality. All that from capitalism – and much of it before the
income tax code even came into being.
Still, those obsessed with government can’t seem to understand that before wealth or money is redistrib-uted it has to be made. Nor do they understand that the combination of emphasizing (1) redistribution over production and (2) taxation over income gener-ation eventually kills off economic growth and reduc-
es standards of living from what they could be.
So very blind are they that some of their leaders extolled the virtues of a now collapsed socialist Ven-ezuela over America – what is false over what is
true.
Many of them do not know economic history - others are just cynical. As Durant would say, they romanti-cize equality forgetting that is has only been in pov-erty. To do all of that, they make up phrases to denigrate productive efforts to bolster their political
efforts to rule.
Phrases are not savings however. They can tear
down a nation’s spirit but they cannot build its for-
tunes. Such work is left to the capitalists and capital-
ism - not to the politicians. It is left to what is true not
what is false.
Jackie (continued from pg 2) and he
never saw combat action.
After the WWII, Jackie Robinson returned briefly to the LA Bulldogs. He accepted a position as Athletic Director at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas. While at Sam Huston College, Jackie received an offer to play baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs, a Negro League team. He played a season with the Monarchs all the while looking to the Major Leagues. He tried out unsuccessfully for the Boston Red Sox. He was interviewed for three hours by President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers Branch Rickey. Rickey was looking for the right black player to integrate the Major Leagues who had the temperament to withstand the racial pressures. On October 23, 1945 Jackie Robinson formally signed his con-tract to play for the Montreal Royals, a AAA International League farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1946 sea-son with representatives from both the Royals and the Dodgers present. In 1946, Robinson moved to Florida to start spring
training with the Montreal Royals.
Integration was difficult at best. The man-ager of the Royals had requested that Robinson be assigned to a different farm team. Rickey refused. Robinson was not allowed to stay at the hotel with the other players. He boarded with a local politi-cian. Since the Dodgers did not yet own
their own spring training facility, they were subject to the whims of local entities to allow the scheduling of games and training several of which turned down events that included Robinson. The stadium in Jack-sonville was padlocked on game day alleg-edly due to lighting issues. As a result, Robinson was sent back to Daytona Beach. After pressure and lobbying by Rickey and other team officials, an exhibi-tion game with the Brooklyn Dodgers was scheduled at the Daytona Beach’s City Island Ballpark. On March 17, 1946 Jackie Robinson was the first black player to publicly play for a minor league team play-ing against a major league team. Jackie Robinson had a great year with the Royals with a .349 batting average and a .985 fielding percentage. As a result, he moved up to the Brooklyn Dodgers the following year. Robinson played his first game for the Dodgers on April 15, 1947 making him the first black athlete to play Major League baseball since 1880. Although the racial harassment continued, he was able to play past all of that and his extraordinary talent became apparent. He soon became base-ball’s darling. In 1949 he became the Na-tional League’s Most Valuable Player. In 1955, Jackie Robinson helped the Brook-lyn Dodgers win the World Series in a match up against the New York Yankees. He played one more year and retired in January, 1957 after being traded to the New York Giants. In 1962, Jackie Robin-
son became the first black player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1972 the Dodgers retired his number
“42”.
After leaving baseball, Robinson became an executive in the “Chock Full O’ Nuts” coffee chain as well as active in the busi-ness community promoting black-owned businesses and industries. He also partici-pated in the establishment of the African-American owned Freedom Bank. He be-came a loud voice in the Civil Rights Movement challenging politicians from both sides of the aisle to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Robinson continued to criticize major league teams who were slow to integrate minorities into manage-
ment and staff positions.
Jackie Robinson became involved in poli-tics during the 1964 Presidential campaign as Nelson Rockefeller unsuccessfully cam-paigned for the Republican nomination. Robinson was one of six National Direc-tors for the Rockefeller campaign. Rocke-feller was subsequently reelected Gover-nor of New York and named Robinson
“Special Assistant for Community Affairs”.
Jackie Robinson was posthumously award-ed the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and in 2005 President George W. Bush awarded him the “Congressional Gold Medal”.
Jackie Robinson was a lifelong Republican.
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