Exactly. Spot on correct. At the very least this makes Bush tax cuts permanent for most. Win 2014 and 2016 and we can do it for all. I make a good salary but a tax hike will cause me to reign in my discretionary spending. If I do that there are probably millions that will do the same and that kills our investments in the market. I’m freaking tired of market collapses.
The Left plans and is willing to make their moves over the course of time, gradually wedding us to socialism. Our side can’t get 100% of what it wants and we pout, lambaste and fail to recognize incrementalism.
Thanks Jake. I was starting to think I was alone in looking at it this way. The GOP is in a no win situation. We all know the socialists are out to destroy us. I’d like to keep working and not depend on the socialists hand outs so I need my taxes to not go up any higher. We will already get an increase through FICA, Medicare and Obamacare, I need the Bush tax cuts to stay in place. The dems aren’t going to cut spending no matter what.
I’d respectfully suggest that your argument has a fatal flaw in it. It asumes that we can win national elections. I dont think we can, and I dont think its because Romney was a bad candidate. I think we could resurrect zombie George Washington, run him, and he’d lose....because the problem is that the takers now officially outnumber the producers.
You are right about incrementalism, but where you lose me is that you seem to now want to surrender another increment. What they are doing, tonight, is trying to gain another increment. The problem I see is that I dont think we can win in 2016, no matter who we run. The solution now is to say no more. Draw the line. Let it burn.
Then, and only then, can we figure out a solution, which probably involves some sort of division. But the age of solving problems with national elections is over, because they’ve figured out that they now have enough “citizens” who suckle at the national teet that they can turn out every 4 years to keep the goodies coming. This stuff going on is window dressing. The more gradual we make the decent into fiscal hell, the harder its going to be to wake up the portion of the population who loves freedom to the fact that we just can’t live with these people any more.
At some point, the Colonists had to decide to toss the damn tea overboard, and accept the consequences. We are there.