Posted on 01/08/2007 11:33:29 AM PST by Reagan Man
Yeah, Bob has his finger on the pulse of the Bush admin.
Great irrelevant reply. Novak's column isn't about Bush, it's about what congresscritters are afraid Bush might do.
If the Republicans go along with ANY tax increase, they are committing Hara Kiri.
To boost this tax on payrolls would be devastating. Here's an idea, let's make it EVEN MORE expensive to hire people.
We cannot have private accounts but we can take even more money away from middle class families and small business people. If they lifted the cap a two income family making $150K between them would get a $4K tax increase. That's $4K less that they would have for college savings or retirement or frankly, anything else that they chose to do with their own money.
But we can allow illegals and other people who don't pay SS taxes to collect.
I gave up on President Bush a while ago and this would not surprise me. He is proving to be a total weenie, on almost all fronts. Many of successes are owing to others.
"Presidential adviser Karl Rove (who was not the aide I just quoted)"
Does anyone leak to Novak any more after his blabbing about Plame?
I was actually going to read this article until I saw who the author was.
yuck, another middle class tax
If they both made $75K, they would not pay more taxes.
Increase taxes and they're finished. It will remove many supporters' reason for voting Republican.
It's Novak who has the credibility of gnat and gnat probably has more. Does anyone really pay attention to what this man has to say?
Wow!
That is so bold of you.
Is his reporting incorrect? Has the Bush administration ruled out raising the "cap" on social security taxation? I haven't seen any report that contradicts Novak on this matter. Until you can site one, you're sniping at Novak comes across as petty and ignorant.
President Bush may have done things that has been controversial but he has stuck to his guns on not raising taxes and with two years left there is no reason for him to make himself a liar.
YEAH! I posted the article. Novak has tons of credibility compared to you. You're obviously still in denial over the election results. Besides, I wouldn't be talking about Bob Novak, not when you're running around FR supporting a liberal named Rudy Giuliani for POTUS. LMBO!
This isn't a matter of Novak's credibility. It's a simple factual question. Novak reports that the Bush administration has not taken a tax increase "off the table." That claim by Novak is either true or false. Unless you can cite a statement by Bush or a Bush aide that takes a tax increase "off the table," then you have no credibility sniping at Novak on this issue.
Why do I get the impression that you'll be defending Bush if and when he signs off on a tax increase? And you'd be sniping at those of us who complained about the tax increase?
Correction, single income family. The current cap is $97.5K.
And what evidence do you have that Novak's report is wrong? He can be easily disproved, if he's wrong - simply give us a quote from Bush or Paulson or Snow that says Bush won't agree to a Social Security tax increase. Novak is reporting that the Bush people refuse to make such a pledge (the Wall Street Journal recently reported the same thing.) Since you know so much, and you know so much more than Novak, please provide the quote by Bush or his aides that shows how wrong Novak is.
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