Bill Kristol is part of the problem. No testicles.
“The payroll tax is a fixed percentage of an employee’s pay. Allowing the tax cut to expire will increase taxes on wages and salaries by 2 percent for every American worker. Up to $110,100 a year in pay is subject to the tax.
Because of the expiration of the payroll-tax cut, a worker earning $50,000, for instance, would pay $1,000 more in taxes next year.”
Quotes from link below: End of payroll-tax break will end era of tax cuts...
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/01/01/end-of-payroll-tax-break-will-end-era-of-tax-cuts.html
The “deal” has nothing to do with anything except Obama keeping his promise to his base that he will make the rich pay more (fair share as he calls it).
Let’s just call em Republicaves.
They damn sure aren’t conservatives.
Bill Kristol. The shrewd, esteemed pundit who ably predicted that the Democracy Movement would be a smashing success, and that Conservatives were simply paranoid about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. We should really listen to him more...
I'm still not buying your dreck.
/johnny
I don’t see why the House cannot just amend the Senate bill, kick it over to Reid and McConnell, and say “Let’s form a conference committee, and come up with something.”
Hell, that is how it used to be done.