Lemmie get this crystal clear. You are willing to accept a tax increase while the budget ceiling hits Saturn? You re willing to keep rolling over for each and every created disaster to postpone the one right behind it?
Does it penetrate your oh so modern economic expertise that doing this crap every few months results in Obama spending more and more, the GOP giving him more and more of YOUR MONEY, and that you are saying “Please sir, can I enjoy another bigger sX!t sandwich?
Are you really that historically ignorant of the past several years or just a die hard GOP fan? And yes, that is a serious question.
Sir, you are the one who is eager for a tax increase. What are you not getting about this? Jan 1, the tax rates revert to 2000’s levels for everyone in the country. Capital Gains and dividend taxes go up, The Death Tax goes up, and the economy will go into a recession, and it won’t be that the Republicans get blamed because the Press is against them. The Republicans will get blamed because it will be their doing. Their leadership, and the White House had a set of proposals that would extract some pain from both sides but would prevent a sudden macroeconomic dislocation.
What I want is to reform Medicare and Social Security so that the old farts getting all their joints replaced on the government’s (i.e. MY) dime don’t leave this country an economic wasteland for my children. Would I accept slightly higher tax rates to see those reforms happen? Hell yes I would.