Posted on 12/07/2012 6:41:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been saying since 2008. He is offering the Republicans exactly zero concessions in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. No spending cuts, no entitlement reform, no compromise on the rates. It is entirely my way or the highway, and if the Republicans refuse to do everything exactly as he demands, he will let the Bush tax cuts expire entirely, for the middle class and working people as well as the upper incomes, and blame the Republicans for refusing to go along with him, and for the economic results.
It is a cynical game worthy of an undeveloped, third world country, not the United States of America. But this is just one more reason, with many more to come, for the American people to regret the mistake they made on Election Day.
Because so many major media institutions, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been so duplicitous and dishonest in discussing the Bush tax cuts, most Americans don’t know much about them, even though they have been living with them for 10 years or more now. Indeed, most of what they think they know is not true. But the American people will understand them better, when they see what life is like without them.
President Bush and his Congressional Republican majorities at the time cut taxes for everyone in the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Indeed, they cut more for lower and middle income taxpayers than they did for “the rich,” as Obama calls the nation’s job creators, investors, and successful small businesses. The top tax rate was cut by only 13%, while the lowest rate was cut by one-third, 33%.
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I agree/ Uk em. I've got a sack full of krugerrands so to hell with them, let em sink.
“it will be a painful lesson the American people will never forget”
I expect it will be a painful lesson that the American people will never learn.
The dems won’t own it, because they own the media, which will continue to sucessfully dupe the electorate into believing that the dastardly republicans hijacked Obama’s presidency and produced economic chaos that he couldn’t possibly prevent.
The obama voters remind me of a particularly stupid dog that doesn’t notice it’s being led into a kennel because someone is dangling a treat in front of its eyes.
Peter Ferrara is an economic moron.
When the current tax rates are increased, tax revenues will decrease since the economy is dynamic not static and that will produce the actual tax cut.
Dittios on the stupidity of the electorate.....especially Obama drones. The man is acting like a dictator worthy of a banana republic, yet no one seems to mind.
I really don’t understand this. Federal spending has been determined through continuing resolutions since 2006, not Congressional budgets.
There is nothing to discuss in the expiration of the Bush tax cuts since they are reaching their legislative ‘sunset’ date.
Either Obama agrees with Congress and continues some or all of the cuts or they automatically expire. Either way he owns it since spending is no longer set by Congress.
Yep. Why should your “tax refund” be greater than the amount of tax than you actually pay? It isn’t a refund, it is a transfer from someone else.
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