Republicans better handle the economy than Democrats

In this round I will counter my opponents main arguments and conclude my argument. My opponent and the rest of the democrats seem to be failing the American people in terms of economics. Their new healthcare law, "Obamacare", is supposedly intended to make it easier for Americans to attain access to health insurance and to help alleviate the costs a little. However, we have witnessed the exact opposite. My opponent claims that "Another thing that you fail to mention is that the way Obamacare works people who earn more pay higher rates, while those who earn less pay less." If that were a fact then there wouldn't be countless incidents of patients that come from ordinary middle and working class families that end up paying hundreds more in medical costs than they would've under their original health plan. Those who made the law have had a very long time since its passage to ensure that everything is in working order and that there won't be problems however the roll out of the program was an utter and complete disaster. The website wasn't working, people couldn't sign up, some people's personal information wouldn't go through to the companies, and have i mentioned higher premiums yet? The law is also complete damaging small businesses and individuals as well. The law is essentially forcing everyone in the US to purchase health insurance whether they want to or not, whether they can afford to or not. If you refuse to participate then you will be forced to pay a fee anyways. Where is the liberty in that? How is that helping Americans get cheaper high quality healthcare? I don't think it is doing that at all. As to the progressive tax system. I do agree that everyone be paying fair taxes. However is a 70% tax rate fair? President Obama called on Congress to allow a tax hike on families and businesses making more than $250,000. New and higher taxes will not create jobs. According to the Congressional Budget Office, "higher marginal tax rates do reduce economic activity." President Obama"s tax hike plan will hurt the ability of small businesses to innovate, invest, and hire. " The Economy is Weaker than When All Tax Rates Were Extended: At the time of the 2010 tax rate extension, GDP growth was 3.1 percent and President Obama said that raising taxes "would have been a blow to our economy." GDP growth over the last four quarters has been 2.0 percent. " One Out of Four Employees Works at Businesses Hit: Businesses employing 25 percent of the American workforce would be hit with higher taxes. " Majority of Small Business Income Affected: An estimated 53 percent of all business income reported on individual tax returns will be affected by the President's tax increase. " One Million Small Businesses Caught: Approximately 940,000 small businesses would be hit by President Obama"s tax hike. " America"s Competitiveness Hurt. Raising the dividend and capital gains rates will result in a 68.6 percent integrated dividend tax rate (the highest among industrialized countries) and a 56.7 percent integrated capital gains tax rate, second highest among these nations (behind Italy). Such a high rate will drive investment and jobs overseas. In addition, Democrats continue creating expensive government funded programs that really don't help all that much even though the deficit is extremely high (one of the highest in all of American history) and the debt is spiraling out of control. What do they do about it? Simply raise the debt ceiling and hope that the debt will miraculously decrease. When ever the debt reaches the fiscal cliff Democrats simply eliminate that dilemma in raising the debt ceiling. Well, how is that supposed to lower the debt and increase the national economy and economic growth? The answer to that is that it won't. My opponent also claimed that the high deficit of 2009 was caused by Bush (typical statement by a Democrat) but my opponent failed to recognize that the Democratic party controlled both houses of congress from 2007 to 2011. And it is congress's job to make the budget and approve it, so the Democrats made the budget and approved it with their political power in 2008, Bush simply just signed it. The Republican plan is different. It will stop the losing of millions of jobs under the Democratic plan and create millions that have already been lost. It will lead families back on a path of family prosperity and self sustainability once more and get the US economy going again. Some Food For Thought in the posted you tube video: http://www.youtube.com...