Posted on 07/21/2010 6:04:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 07/21/2010 7:26:20 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just when you thought Congress was spent -- literally -- and done for the year they'll turn around and surprise you. No money left to do anything? United Republican opposition? Democrats are planning to take on the great white whale of spending: extending President Bush's middle class tax cuts. The cost is estimated from $1.6 trillion to extend them to as much as $2.7 trillion to make them permanent. According to Senate Democratic sources, the latter is what they're going to go for -- and they're planning to do it before the midterm elections.
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Well, big whoop.
The Bush tax cuts won’t do diddly squat anymore. We have them now and we’re still getting killed.
The government has our schools, mortgages, auto industry, and we’ve got the Obamacare turkey, Kagan for SCOTUS, Financial Deform, the inevitable Crap & Tax idiocy, and most likely open borders amnesty — please, Bush tax cuts? Any advantage from it is already canceled out.
Washington is filled with elitist policy putzes using the old worn out 30-year-old shoe of failed socialism. Smell the stink of it (that includes most of the GOP). Unfortunately, we’re all getting fitted for our own pair of smelly socialist shoes. You’re gonna wear ‘um and you’re gonna like um’.
Tax cuts for lots of average voters, good.
Tax cuts for particularly productive voters, bad.
I get it!
How do you 1099 a Bookie?
Rats; they do their worst damage working in the shadows.
they will talk about it between now and November
BINGO
DON’T BE FOOLED! The demonic-rats in congress may pass a bill to get elected; knowing that Zero will kill it with a veto after the election.
And these people have jobs?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557222/posts
Nancy Pelosi rejects tax cuts for the wealthy!! Today’s thread.
So, does that mean they’re incentivizing electronic filing? Because if I read you right, no mess at all if you file electronically. What would be the downside to that? Not a rhetorical question; I’m genuinely curious.
What is the ratio of the dollar value of the tax cuts to the middle class (earning under $250,000 per year), versus the dollar value of the tax cuts to those above that figure which I assume are the cuts that will be allowed to lapse?
The strange logic of the left that tax cuts “cost” something just goes on. They are not spending.
Well said! Some pseudo-capitalists here on FR have claimed that tax cuts are a an example of "government intervention" helping the economy.
Actually, if JFK were alive today, he’d be considered too ‘right-wing’ to be electable by the Republican party.
He’d probably be in the TEA party.
By going into live interviews with the liberal media... then using the Socratic method to answer their biased attack questions.
IE: answer their questions with a question.
Anchor: “How can you support the Bush tax cuts? With our deficit so large, aren’t you just an anti-American looking to destroy our country through fiscal mismanagement?”
Republican: “Are you asking me how I could possibly support a measure to have the ordinary, average Joe keep his own money?”
Anchor: “Tax cuts have nothing to do with people keeping their own money! How could you support tax cuts when the deficit is so high?”
Republican: “What do you consider tax cuts to be, if not a measure that let’s the ordinary, average Joe to keep his own, hard-earned money?”
Anchor: “RACIST!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!”
Republican: “There they go again...”
(All caught on live TV)
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