Posted on 12/07/2010 2:59:55 PM PST by GLDNGUN
I don't understand why some people are wringing their hands over this tax bill. Actually, I do. Some people aren't happy to get 99% of what they want. They want everything or nothing. Other people will not be happy, even with 100% of what they supposedly want. They live to be cynical and won't have their favorite crutch taken from them.
Hey..ask the guy who replied to you about the budget..”WHAT BUDGET?” They havent even bothered to pass a budget for this year the last I knew.
Off hand, I can't think of a more serious, (or is it series) accusation. Any truth to it?
I was wondering about that. Maybe he is a Spy.
Headline: Obama’s Tax Cuts, What do they mean?
Since there is no budget and the Senate is now passing spending bills-like Obamacare. Then they shouldnt have had no problem passing the extension of the Bush tax rates along with expenditure cuts also, no?
Yeah.... that is some win.
We can revisit these issues the next time the tax cuts come up for renewall. GLDNGUN is right, by just extending the tax cuts by three years, the DemocRATS will have to go through this pain again before 2013.
I dunno. I just feel like a passenger in economy class on the Titanic.
The GOP got Obama to go on record as saying tax cuts stimulate the economy after Obama claimed for two years that the Bush tax cuts destroyed the economy.
In addition to being incompetent, the man is a duplicitous fool.
Well...I feel like I am in steerage. Hell..I am the poor sucker who gets to try and bail the GD thing out!..thats a better way to put it.
The fact that these cuts are not permanent is also a GOP failure. So you are saying they won’t be made permanent next year either?
So, is Obama going to campaign against “his” tax cuts in 2012? Yes or no?
Yeah.... that is some win.
We can revisit these issues the next time the tax cuts come up for renewall. GLDNGUN is right, by just extending the tax cuts by two years, the DemocRATS will have to go through this pain again before 2013.
“So, you agree with liberals that getting rid of Bush’s tax rates won’t hurt the economy, right?”
What part of your butt did you pull that out from?
I am a FairTax advocate. I believe the federal government has no business in my income or investments. I believe we need to get the federal government out of our paychecks and focused on cutting their spending.
Bush’s tax cuts were window dressing. They should have surpassed Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts but they were intended only to say to conservatives “Look I gave you tax cuts”.
Not only that but I and millions of others worked ourselves to exhaustion to get Bush a second term and a GOP controlled House and Senate. We did that so that he would have the opportunity to pass real lasting historical tax reform and he blew it, he squandered the opportunity.
Instead he backslapped the Swift Boat veterans and tried to give us Harriet Myers for Supreme Court Justice and so many other poor choices such as pushing comprehensive immigration reform and advocating for the Marxist inspired New World Order Law of the Sea Treaty.
George W. Bush and his father were both poor presidents with the only distinction that they smelled less worse than the Clintons, Gore and Kerry.
It's not a failure. We currently only have 42 Republicans in the Senate. If you want permanent tax rate cuts or a roll back to the Reagan tax cuts, we'll have to have a Republican majority in both the House and Senate and have a Republcian president. The extention of tax cuts past 2012 will be the biggest issue in the 2012 presidential election.
I've heard this also. I think it was from Kudlow, or someone from Hoover Inst. on Bachelor. The "Filthy Rich" /s/ (and not so filthy rich who pay attention to their portfolio's), are all set to dump most of their stocks on the 12/15 if the tax rates revert to the pre-Bush numbers, resulting in a hugh crash.
If that scenario played out, Obama could blame the Republicans for the crash-(because he has the Bully Pulpit and the MSM would endlessly parrot his screed) and letting 2 million Americans suffer in the Christmas season with no unemployment dough.
A nice start to the year for the new Congress. /s/
Nothing is in stone yet.
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