Posted on 12/21/2006 6:58:32 AM PST by meg88
Well if he does that, he won't get reelected.
That's not what I voted for.
We are being set up for bubba and the beast part 2
My guess is that if the dems want a tax increase they'll have to pass it over his veto. Luring them in by saying he'll listen is fine. Then let them propose their tax increases and he can simply say "See, I told you so".
Just FYI, the President doesn't have the authority to raise taxes, he can only sign or veto the bill produced by Congress.
I don't think this is what any of us voted for.
I doubt he will but I also doubt he cares too much about pleasing all the backstabbers who wimped out in November.
How is it going to doom President Bush?
Well, even the President himself said it; Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. He was supposedly joking at the time.
The Left despises him because they think he's a conservative.
The Right despises him because they know he's not.
Neither will any R's in 2008 either, just like last November.
But he certainly seems to care about trying to please (futilely) the 47% of the population that voted for Kerry and will hate him no matter what he does.
At least that's what the Germans would have you believe. :-)
I'm guessing more taxes for the "rich" will definitely happen. I'll be retired and deeply into the "underground economy" by then.
But it will be a bad deal for my offspring who are on the lower rungs of their careers.
These people just don't get it. Tax cuts are the simplest and most sure-fire way of improving the economy.
In this particular case, you are raising taxes on younger, productive people to pay benefits to the retired. How is this going to improve the economic condition of the "middle class". I don't think an increase in payroll withholding is going to sit well.
I'll bet V.P. Cheney wishes he was out of this whole hoffenmist.
For those of you in Rio Linda....no, I will not translate "hoffenmist" for you.
Leni
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