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Why Not Cut Income Tax Rates To Give Everyone An Extra Forty Dollars a Week?
freerepublic.com ^ | 12-22-2011 | raybbr

Posted on 12/22/2011 1:30:46 PM PST by raybbr

I have been listening to a lot of debate on the radio about the payroll deduction cut. I just recently heard the Won on the radio going on about how some guy will miss his pizza night.

Why can't Boehner and McConnel, instead, come out and say, "We'll cut the income tax rates by 2 percent and reinstate the payroll tax rate so Social Security can remain funded and K.Z. can still have his pizza night with his daughters.

Better yet, we'll cut the income tax rate 4% and they can have pizza night twice a week."

Why do they let the dems consistently out maneuver them on the tax issue?


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To: raybbr

Because the government doesn’t GIVE taxpayers anything. It takes. If they are really in a good mood, why not just print a million bucks for everybody and let us all pay off all our bills and mortgages and by a new car? If we do it fast enough, we’ll be out of debt and in new rides before inflation has a chance to get us!


21 posted on 12/22/2011 1:48:27 PM PST by Dogbert41 (A vote for Romney is a vote for Luke warm slop)
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To: muir_redwoods

I’m sure the dumb working fools that are crying about having to pay $40 in social security taxes will understand when there is no money for their social security checks when they retire. By then there will be no more rich to tax and subsidize their lives.


22 posted on 12/22/2011 1:49:09 PM PST by No Socialist
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To: raybbr

because the target audience of Obama pays no income tax and they still want their refund from his stash


23 posted on 12/22/2011 1:49:23 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: raybbr

America’s communists Democrats including King Obama win again.


24 posted on 12/22/2011 1:49:41 PM PST by Logical me
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To: dragnet2

Little Caesar’s Pizza has $5 carryout for the large 1-topping pizza.


25 posted on 12/22/2011 1:50:32 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: raybbr

You plan is not acceptable because Ubama wants to reward those people who pay NO income taxes, but may pay SOME payroll taxes. He does NOT want to benefit the “rich” who DO pay income taxes!!!


26 posted on 12/22/2011 1:50:59 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: GeronL
Little Caesar’s Pizza has $5 carryout for the large 1-topping pizza.

Oh sure...Your going to have family pizza night for 5 bucks.

What a hoot!

27 posted on 12/22/2011 1:53:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: raybbr
"I just recently heard the Won on the radio going on about how some guy will miss his pizza night."

I just about died laughing over that one.

28 posted on 12/22/2011 1:58:54 PM PST by Spunky (Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
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To: dragnet2

Tuesday night at Pisa Pizza in Malden has Two for One Night.


29 posted on 12/22/2011 1:59:59 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: raybbr

Why shouldn’t everyone pay their fair share? Where does the idea that the government would give us $40? What if they took say $1000 less?


30 posted on 12/22/2011 2:03:10 PM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: raybbr

This is not federal income tax it is the Social Security Tax percentage from 6.2 to 4.2 percent. Everyone who has taxes taken from them pays this percentage including the 47%. I wish income tax was only 4%.


31 posted on 12/22/2011 2:06:00 PM PST by BlowNegative (The Thing about Silent Warfare - Don't leave footprints)
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To: raybbr

Because if a cut in income tax results in a revenue loss then it will show up in the yearly budget deficit. Cutting the Social Security, which is a separate account from the budget, allows the thieves on both sides to continue playing monkey business with the Social Security account by just stuffing it with more IOUs (aka Treasury bonds with interest).


32 posted on 12/22/2011 2:08:01 PM PST by avacado
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To: Proud2BeRight

Anybody that has a job/paycheck has to pay FICA.

It’s not like the Social Security System is rolling in unspent cash.


33 posted on 12/22/2011 2:16:44 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: raybbr
Should not have agreed to it to begin with.

1.Should have PROTECTED Social Security. Elderly have already had billions stripped from Medicare and are mad about it. Elderly population is growing as baby boomers retire, and elderly voters show up.

2. Obamanomics has destroyed jobs. Millions of Americans would like to have a job. Obama’s solution is to help Americans making $100,000 more than the “working poor” or those who are desperately searching for a job.

Everyone could use some extra cash. Cut Government salaries and send it out to the every legal house hold.

34 posted on 12/22/2011 2:31:24 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: raybbr
Cut income tax by $100/wk. Make the non-paying fund it through "slave" labor.

One can't get something for nothing forever.

They could always move to Venezuela/Cuba/Zimbabwe.

35 posted on 12/22/2011 2:31:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: raybbr

Who can afford pizza night once a week anyway? If it were a Repub tax cut they would be talking about a muffler on a Lexus, what phonies.

Merry Christmas


36 posted on 12/22/2011 2:39:40 PM PST by bray (The Tea Party Occupy's their Mind)
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To: raybbr

Yes, why did the House Republicans Cave to President Obama?


37 posted on 12/22/2011 2:50:39 PM PST by Bleeding_Hart_Liberal
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To: raybbr

If the RINO establishment gets its way we won’t be seeing tax cuts (at least for the job creators) since Milquetoast Mitt only favors cutting taxes for the middle class.


38 posted on 12/22/2011 2:56:39 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: raybbr
Why Not Cut Income Tax Rates To Give Everyone An Extra Forty Dollars a Week?

Because you can not "justify" a cut SS benefits because "you did not pay in as much" if it is an "income tax cut."

An "income tax cut" will show as decreased general revenue, whereas a SS payroll cut is not supposed to affect general revenue because of the myth that it is separate.

In reality it is nothing but IOU's...

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39 posted on 12/22/2011 3:23:14 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: raybbr
Better Idea, do away with the Payroll Deduction of taxes and FICA and make people write a Check each month.

I guarantee that within months of such a policy being implemented Taxes and Spending will drop dramatically OR there will be lots of new Congresscritters walking around Washington after the next election!

40 posted on 12/22/2011 3:29:19 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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