Marco Rubio’s trickle-down nonsense: Tax cuts for the rich make sense because his father...

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Marco Rubio’s trickle-down nonsense: Tax cuts for the rich make sense because his father was a bartender!

His tax plan will make the rich richer and worsen inequality, but his dad was working-class so it's okay

SIMON MALOY

If you’ve paid any attention to Marco Rubio at any point over the past five years, then chances are pretty good that you know that his father worked as a bartender. It’s a biographical detail that Rubio slips in pretty much every time he utters a word in public. He mentioned it in his 2013 State of the Union response, his speech announcing his 2016 candidacy, and his closing remarks at the first GOP debate. Rubio’s frequent retellings of parents’ stories (the non-exaggerated parts, anyway) are an integral part of his everyman appeal — as Rubio himself put it on the debate stage, “the journey from the back of that bar to this stage tonight, to me, that is the essence of the American dream.”

And, conveniently enough, it turns out that Rubio’s father’s humble employment story can also be used to justify his wildly regressive tax policies.

Rubio sat down with CNBC’s John Harwood, who asked the senator to explain how his identification with and professed concern for the middle class square with his tax plan, which showers the wealthy with tax cuts beyond their wildest dreams. It all makes sense, Rubio says, because his father was a bartender:

HARWOOD: You said in the debate the other day that you can compete toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton on people who live paycheck to paycheck because you lived paycheck to paycheck. How do you think people who are living paycheck to paycheck will receive the news that your tax plan eliminates taxes on estates, capital gains and dividends?

RUBIO: Well, first of all, capital gains and dividends is investment. That means someone is taking money they have access to and investing it in something. That’s how jobs are created.

My father had a job as a bartender at a hotel. And the reason why he had a job as a bartender is because someone who had money invested in that hotel. Invested in building it, invested in expanding it, invested in modernizing it so people would keep coming back. And that’s why people visited that hotel. That’s why my dad had a salary, and that’s why he had tips.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/27/marco_rubios_trickle_down_nonsense_tax_cuts_for_the_rich_make_sense_because_his_father_was_a_bartender/

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1. I am guessing his dad ran the bar during a time of high tax rates

Like in the 70's, with a 70% top income tax rate. And that the hotel was started during that time, or before when rates were even higher.

Tool.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. I'm betting he didn't claim his cash tips either.

So, Marco Rubio's father was most likely guilty of tax fraud.

[wilt the stilt]

6. I can guarantee

you he didn't claim his tips. No one did back then and if you leave a cash tip today the server or any tipped employee is not claiming their tips.

[Frustratedlady]

3. I've never made it past 3 minutes of the guy. He really doesn't seem to be too smart.

Jeb would probably hate to see him drop out, as he makes Jeb look a little smarter...a little.

[lpbk2713]

4. Rubio is the court jester among this crop of wannabes.

Everyone but him seems to know he hasn't the slightest
chance. It's all he can do to avoid embarrassing himself.
No one takes him seriously.

[pampango]

5. Is it policy by anecdote or just using anecdotes to justify a policy enriching the 1%.

I suspect it is the latter.