Posted on 12/13/2012 4:56:27 AM PST by Kaslin
The “middle class” is the people with a job. Obviously the middle class was always the target.
The plan is to raise taxes on the “rich” then cause rampant inflation so normal people will fall into the category of “rich” and pay exorbitant taxes.
All the while the political ruling class has its pay, benefits and pension adjusted for inflation.
A tax hike on the middle class is the only thing that is going to wake people up. In some ways, I look forward to it. Obama won the last election by suckering people into believing that our bloated Welfare State could be paid for by people making over $250,000. That idea is laughable but a lot of middle class people who want an easy way out willingly fell for it. Now its time to pay the piper. Either cut spending or the middle class is going to have to pay its “fair share.” I’d rather cut spending but America seems to want Obama’s Socialism. No more having the top 10% pay 75% of all income taxes and borrowing to pay for middle class benefits.
...HE DID NOT "WIN THE ARGUMENT" DAMMIT.
He was the (first) recipient of decades of the building of the welfare state begun over 100 years ago by "progressives".
FDR, LBJ, JEC, Willie Jeff, and now BHO have created conditions of easy welfare so that the welfare rolls have grown into a majority of Americans. There will never be in our lifetimes a sane government.
...the lunatics have taken over the asylum. America is a full, blown, certifiable, welfare state with all the "rights and privileges" attached.
The House of Representatives could be our "cavalry to the rescue"..but with Boehner in charge, it ain't going to happen.
The sad fact is that apparently Boehner is so untalented and uneducated that he deems that he couldn't make it outside his House job. Therefore, he is going to throw us all into the welfare state hell hole to save his "job" and the lifestyle to which he has grown accustomed. Doing the right thing for America is not on his agenda, I guess.
“The middle class is the people with a job. Obviously the middle class was always the target.”
It will be interesting to see how the leftist freak Hussein Heads defend this “necessity”.
All the “I’d rather see Obama re-elected than vote for Romney” “freepers” should be overjoyed.
No, Mr. President, it is not just a matter of math. It is a matter of a shakedown and humiliation of the so-called rich who are already paying their "fair" share.
If it is possible to have a rational conversation with a Democrat, the Democrat would agree that the "rich" are already paying their fair share. Killing the Bush tax cuts is equivalent to killing the economy, if you understand free enterprise and Economics 101.
The government has demonstrated time and again its incompetence, corruption, and disdain for whatever is American. What is "fair" share today will be short of "fair" share tomorrow. "Fair" share is a moving target toward a 100% tax rate, with the Democrats in charge.
ANYTHING negative that comes out of this will be blamed on Republicans.
If Republicans do nothing, if Republicans cave in to the President, if Republicans oppose the President's policies...the final and ultimate blame will be on Republicans. PERIOD
I have completely lost interest in the whole ‘discussion’ because the MSM consistently and intentionally misrepresents everything that is going on, everything that is necessary and everything that is likely to take place.
Politicians are confused and deliberately confusing... they cannot be trusted and are themselves as much of the problem as the MSM.
Politicians were present every step of the way in the decades long chain of events and record of ‘legislation’ that got the US into the jackpot it's in now.
Trust POLITIICIANS or the MSM? Not at all!
Pay attention to where your precious country is going!
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
The rich....is a nebulous concept.
What is “rich”. that’s depends on where you’re standing.
Hate to say this but Obama isn’t the problem, the MSM is the problem.
We need to Alinsky the MSM. Problem with that is we work, have families, have lives. The left can afford to send 100,000 SEIU workers out for the day to protest because we pay for that.
The rich will simply (as always) hire accountants and attorneys, and move their assets around appropriately. The rest of us will get slammed by the AMT.
< sarc >How do I get MINE??? < /sarc >
We've got no one standing up for us in DC, we've got no consequential way to make ourselves heard.
With hundreds of IRS agents being hired, any kind of tax protest is highly problematic.
And I don't believe Thomas Jefferson's prescription is a possibility at this point.
Frustrated doesn't begin to describe how I feel at this point.
“All the Id rather see Obama re-elected than vote for Romney freepers should be overjoyed.”
By the way I don’t see too many of them bragging here that much after the elections. They may have buyers remorse!
When they see their new tax rate, they will be heard.
Obama is a problem but he is not “the” problem.
As you correctly point out it is the Drive-by media. They are monolithic in their worldview which is directed by Columbia Journalism School. Columbia is without question the most Marxist of all the “Ivy” schools with Brown and Cornell being the least, of a decidedly leftist spectrum.
The fourth estate has clearly become of fifth column in that they are actively seeking to destroy the US from within.
Their advocacy for gay rights, gun control, the welfare state, global warming, ad nausea is clearly subversive activity and this goes back to the McCarthy thing When Welch declared “have you no decency...” The Right was forever cast as immoral ind intolerant and whatever else.
Until we have a “have you no decency” moment with the left, we are cooked.
“When they see their new tax rate, they will be heard.”
Or they’ll suddenly have as much respect for Boehner as Big Media does....
"Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman"
- George Harrison
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