Democrats Urge Obama To 'Go Big' With Jobs Package

NPR.org ^ | 2 Sept 2011 | Mara Liasson

[ez]

The only way Obama can pull his chestnuts out of the fire would be to stump for a massive tax reform...essentially the flat tax with no exemptions, ala Steve Forbes. There are, however, two reasons why he won’t do it. a} he is a true believer in socialist tenets and could never bring himself to swallow the medicine, and b) it’s too late for a change like this to effect the economy in time for the 2012 elections. He’s sunk and he knows it, so he’s stretching this out in the hopes no-one will notice that he has nothing.

[Gaffer]

Payroll tax relief.....codespeak for cutting Social Security and Medicaid deductions down to zero for the "working poor"....Now, these people will truly, truly pay nothing in taxes (of any form), all while receiving EITC, AFDC, EBT, SCHIP, and all the other federal and state benefits for the "working poor" and the disadvantaged....

I'm curious how they'll change the 7.62% bite on one's pay, though......they'll have to do away with it for the "working poor" while keeping it for those damned middle income and 'rich' people...They'll just threshold it and put these people into the 'defined benefit-no contribution, period' class. Disgusting.

[Bones Boy]

Following Alinsky rules, the Republicans should loudly laugh at him throughout his address to Congress. Whenever he says a punchline (i.e. a new tax and spend proposal) I want to hear “HAHAHAHAHA” on TV, like a laugh track on a sitcom.

[PGalt]

GRRRRRREAT thread! BTTT!

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Dude! You were on a roll, there. Well done!

FJ